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Artist of the Week

BBC Radio 3
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Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin is one of America's outstanding conductors. Having spent many years with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, he recently moved to Washington DC to become music director of the National
Symphony Orchestra. He is renowned for his performances of 20th-century repertoire and has partcular enthusiasm for the works of American, Russian and British composers. He begins this week by talking to Joan Bakewell about how being bom into an s exceptionally musical family almost deterred him from embarking on a career in music. Including works by Walter Piston and Copland. Producer Lyndon Jones

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Leonard Slatkin
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Leonard Slatkin
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Joan Bakewell
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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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