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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

with Susan Sharpe.
1.00 Friday Chamber Music from Kendal Town
Hall.
Music from 16th-century Spain
Catherine King (soprano) Jacob Heringman (lute/ Renaissance guitar)
Sarah Cunningham (viol)
Concert sponsored by Oddfellows Gallery. For tickets ring (0161) [number removed]
2.00 Schools
The Song Tree: Music Course 1 - Melody
Muddle's Music Machine
2.15 Together Stories 2.30 Dance Workshop 2.50 Poetry Corner
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 Mining the Archive Susan Sharpe introduces the third of four programmes from the Aldeburgh Festival.
From a concert given in June 1953, Benjamin Britten conducts the Aldeburgh Festival
Orchestra in the first performance of Variations on Sellinger's Round by Oldham, Tippett, Berkeley, Britten, Searle and Walton.
Plus the first performance of The Cool Webb, a song cycle by Gordon Crosse , given in June 1975 by Peter Pears (tenor) and Clifford Benson (piano).
Producer Anthony Sellors
FAIREST ISLE
4.20 Turns of the Century An audio lexicon of the great English comedy performers.
Gillian Reynolds introduces Les Dawson.
4.30 Songs of South East Asia
In the final programme, John Thornley presents traditional court gamelan and ritual music from
Malaysia and Indonesia.

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Soprano:
Jacob Heringman
Guitar:
Sarah Cunningham
Introduces:
Susan Sharpe
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Gordon Crosse
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
Clifford Benson
Producer:
Anthony Sellors
Introduces:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
John Thornley

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