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The idea that new classical music represents an existential threat to civilisation as we know it is still with us.When you face an existential threat, you have to make sacrifices to beat it.This is an existential threat to the party.This is as great an existential threat, they argue.
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A threat to a person or thing is a danger that something unpleasant might happen to them. A threat is also the cause of this danger. [...]
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The idea that new classical music represents an existential threat to civilisation
as we know it is still with us.When you face an existential threat, you have to make sacrifices to beat it.This is an existential threat to the party.This is as great an existential threat, they argue.
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