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Music in Our Time

on BBC Radio 3

This week a programme of American music given at the Gardner Centre, Sussex University. by the Boston Musica Viva director Richard Pittman

John Harbison Six Dumbshows, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

Ronald Perera Three Poems of Gunter Grass, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello, stereo tape and soprano

George Edwards Kreuz und Quer, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello

Joseph Schwantner Elixir, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano

(all first broadcast performances in this country except Edwards)

Contributors

Director:
Richard Pittman
Piano:
Ronald Perera
Soprano:
George Edwards Kreuz
Cello:
Joseph Schwantner Elixir

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