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and American Idol to name just a few

notably her Top 30 1959 debut with "Till There Was You" and the later Top 20 hit "Wonderland By Night"

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and a third with works by Hindemith and Schoenberg which have garnered distinctions such as Diapason de l'Année

Pettersson/ Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No. 13 Condition:New and American Idol to nameBeginning his first (never completed) symphony in 1951 and working on his 17th when he died in 1980, Allan Pettersson during three decades concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic genre and this at a time when many composers considered the symphony (and indeed the symphony orchestra) to be hopelessly old fashioned. Pettersson, however, was deeply committed to the genre, something which in Sweden during the early 1960s was so unusual