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We that Live to Please must Please to Live

BBC Radio 3
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' The Drama's Laws, the Drama s Patrons give and we that live to please must please to live.'
(SAMUEL JOHNSON )
' Nowadays, to please the public, you must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it after you; or so incomprehensible that it pleases simply because no sensible man can understand it.' (MOZART) An imaginary conversation between Samuel Johnson and Mozart on the subject of music, art and patronage, written by STEPHEN OLIVER , who also Dlavs the harpsichord.
Dr Johnson TIMOTHY WEST Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ANTON LESSER
Producer PATRICIA BRENT

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Johnson
Unknown:
Samuel Johnson
Written By:
Stephen Oliver
Harpsichord:
Dr Johnson Timothy West
Harpsichord:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Producer:
Patricia Brent
Source: Radio Times

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About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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