This week's question: A three-armed robot conductor called MAiRA Pro S recently made its debut performance, leading an all-human orchestra in the German city of Dresden. If a composer were to rewrite a famous piece of classic music especially for this machine maestro, what should the bot-friendly work be titled?
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