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  "textContent": "The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world.\n\nASTANA — Kazakhstan is celebrating the 120th anniversary of Ahmet Zhubanov, a composer, conductor, musicologist and scholar who helped shape Kazakhstan’s professional music. Born on April 29, 1906, in today’s Aktobe Region, he turned folk melodies, dombyra traditions and scholarly research into a foundation for national musical institutions. Zhubanov, a People’s Artist of the Kazakh…\n\nThe post Zhubanov’s 120th Anniversary: Scholar Who Gave Kazakh Music Orchestra  appeared first on The Astana Times.",
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