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Tea-Jan

BBC Radio 3
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Despite press calls for "the elimination of light music", jazz was very popular in the Soviet Union in the thirties. Inspired by the Tea-Jazz Ensemble of Odessa, Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No 1 includes parts for the banjo and Hawaiian guitar. Conductor Nikolai Maiko bet Shostakovich that he could not orchestrate Youmans' Tea for Two in an hour. Shostakovich needed only 40 minutes and renamed it Tahiti Trot. Discs

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Conductor:
Nikolai Maiko
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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