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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
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Smyth goes on to write 'March of the Women' for the WSPU (aka the suffragettes). Arrested and sentenced to two months in HMP Holloway, she was visited by her friend Sir Thomas Beecham. He found her leaning out of her cell window, conducting her fellow inmates in a chorus of the song, with her toothbrush as a baton.
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