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Music on Canvas

BBC Radio 3
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The first of two programmes of works inspired by visual art. Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George was inspired by George Seurat 's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. And Debussy's L'Isle
Joyeuse is based on the island of Cythera featured in Jean Antoine Watteau 's The
Embarkation to Cythera. see Monday 9.05pm

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Unknown:
George Seurat
Unknown:
Jean Antoine Watteau
Source: Radio Times

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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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