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A symphony orchestra(管弦乐队) made up of 96 musicians from 33 countries 31 (choose) online via YouTube has won applause in New York's famous Carnegie Hall. The musicians, 32 ranged in age from 15 to 55 years old, came from as far 33 Australia, South Korea, Russia, Sweden, Israel and Cuba --- 34 the exception of Muslim and African countries. The selection, made by San Francisco Symphony Orchestra director Michael Tilson Thomas, involved more than 3,000 musicians from 70 countries who sent 35 videos through the video sharing website YouTube since December. The chosen 96 36 (win) a plane ticket and 37 three-day stay in New York to participate in various 38 （gather）at The Juilliard School of Music and in the Carnegie Hall concert.

Colombian trombonist John Wilson Gonzalez, 27, told AFP the concert was a “marvelous experience.” At his side, 30-year-old Manuel Ramos, a Mexican from Monterrey, shared Gonzalez's enthusiasm and said “There are musicians from all over the world -- professionals, amateurs, students. I don't know 39 sort of level it will be, 40 it's been really interesting.”

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“I sat-in at a restaurant for six months, and when they finally agreed to serve me, they didn’t have what I wanted” – so went a famous line. In reality, the sit-in movement was not a joke. It began in Greensboro, North Carolina, at 430 p.m. on the afternoon of

February1, 1960. On that day, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Franklin McClain entered an F.W. Woolworth store. They sat down at a segregated lunch counter, ordered coffee, and then refused to leave when told, “We don’t serve Negroes.”