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Composer of the Week-Bernstein

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

More music from Bernstein's
Broadway years, presented from New York by his biographer Humphrey Burton. Today, excerpts from the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), a study in domestic discord written on the composer's honeymoon, and Wonderful Town (1953), a blissfully nostalgic evocation of Greenwich Village in the swing era, starring Rosalind Russell. Guests in Manhattan include Seymour Lipkin , who conducted the premiere of Trouble in Tahiti, and producer Harold Prince , who worked as a stage manager on Wonderful Town. Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton.
Unknown:
Rosalind Russell.
Unknown:
Seymour Lipkin
Producer:
Harold Prince
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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