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Shop in a spin over £25k records
10/04/2008 16:26 - (SA)
London - A widow has given 4 000 vinyl
records spanning every classical genre to her local Oxfam shop,
the largest music donation in the charity's history, a spokesperson
said on Wednesday.
The collection, worth an estimated £25 000, ranges
from Bach and Haydn to Stravinsky and Stockhausen and will keep
the shop stocked for three years.
It was donated by an unnamed woman, in her 50s, to her local
Oxfam store in Tavistock, Devon, after the death of her husband.
"It is amazing. I can't think of a classical genre that is
missing," said Oxfam volunteer Terry Hyde.
"It is all there - all your big figures from the 18th and 19th century, your 20th
century unlistenable nightmares by Stockhausen, avant garde,
opera, unaccompanied violin. Virtually every genre is covered."
Shop manager Jacky Theobald said the collection was too big
to go on sale at the same time.
"It is a small shop," she said. "We will do a Chopin week, a
Mozart week, that sort of thing."
Oxfam makes around £5m each year from the
sale of film and music.
It recently received a rare Rolling
Stones demo single and a Handel score.
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