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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Spizzwinks(?) bring Burmese choir on tour

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, April 27, 2009

When the Yale a cappella group Spizzwinks(?) journeyed across Asia on its 2007 summer tour, a trip to the nonprofit school Gitameit Music Center in Rangoon, Burma, struck a memorable chord. Visiting Burma’s only community music school, the students were moved by the performances of the Gitameit choir, Spizzwinks(?) member Nathaniel Granor ’09 recalled.

After two years of planning and more than $37,000 in fundraising, the Yale Spizzwinks(?), led by Granor, have finally helped bring Gitameit students to the United States for a three-week tour, which marks the first time a Burmese...

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