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Music in Our Time

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The second of two programmes of electro-acoustic music, presented by Stephen Arnold.
All the works were written over a 12-week period in the summer of 1987, as part of that year's Musica Nova Festival. The composers wrote with the following musicians in mind, in view of their dedication to contemporary music and jazz with a Scottish flavour.
WILLIAM SWEENEY (clarinet)
RICHARD LEE (saxophones) JOHN KENNY (trombone) JAMES DURRANT (viola) EDWARD MCGUIRE (percussion)
STEPHEN ARNOLD
(sound projection) conducted by DAVID DA VIES
Ian Willcock The
Committee Holds Up a Mirror
Edward McGuire Wild Woods
Geoffrey King Cold Forbidden Mansions

Contributors

Presented By:
Stephen Arnold.
Clarinet:
William Sweeney
Unknown:
John Kenny
Viola:
James Durrant
Viola:
Edward McGuire
Unknown:
Stephen Arnold
Conducted By:
David Da Vies
Conducted By:
Ian Willcock
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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