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Composer Tobias Picker tapped to write a lead role for new SA opera company

GREGORY DOWNER
By Scott Andrews
San Antonio Current | April 5, 2012
When the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters announced their newly elected members on March 12, it was a good day for Schott Music, the venerable international music publishing company headquartered in Mainz, Germany, since 1770.
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