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And Andrew Kipe, the executive director of the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky, a highly regarded ensemble recovering from a recent bankruptcy, said that orchestra officials had already planned to go to Washington on March 20 for an advocacy day organized by Americans for the Arts, a network of cultural organizations, but that now the trip had taken on greater urgency.

“When we get to D.C. next month, we will have some real facts and figures — on job creation, economic impact — besides just arguing that funding the arts is good because it’s a good thing,” Mr. Kipe said, adding that the arts had bipartisan support in Kentucky.

Orchestra executive director Andrew Kipe says the orchestra is bucking a national trend of declining subscriptions.

Actually, we don't call him "Mr", we call him "Sir", if only because there among the samples of 60s girl group the Marvelettes, Texan electronica whiz Malcolm Kipe and Sonic the Hedgehog is a snippet of us.

Eyewitnesses said the attack took place at Conde's personal residence in the Kipe suburb of the capital Conakry in the small hours of Tuesday and lasted for nearly two hours before it was repelled by Conde's personal guard.