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Tonight's edition reflects this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Lynne Walker talks to the Chinese-American composer Tan Dun about tonight's world premiere of his Orchestral Theatre, which uses newsreel, animated graphics and video art, and she finds out what Stockhausen can do with four helicopters and a string quartet. Festival director Richard Steinitz reveals how he juggles all the strands of one of the biggest and best new music festivals in Europe. Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Fernand laciu (violin),
Lille National Orchestra, conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus
5.45 Morton Feldman Vertical
Thoughts IV
Marianne Schroeder (piano)
6.03 Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat ("Well-tempered Clavier", Bk 2) Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
6.15 Howard Skempton Shiftwork Ensemble Bash
6.45 Tan Dun Death and Fire -
Dialogue with Paul Klee
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer Producer Julian Gregory See also Fnday 10.00pm

Contributors

Talks:
Lynne Walker
Unknown:
Tan Dun
Director:
Richard Steinitz
Conductor:
Jean-Claude Casadesus
Piano:
Marianne Schroeder
Harpsichord:
Maggie Cole
Unknown:
Paul Klee
Producer:
Julian Gregory

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