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Mike Westbrook

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

This pianist and composer was commissioned by Radio 3 to write Bar Utopia, with a text by Helen Simpson. Alyn Shipton introduces a recording of the first performance, given at the 1995 Bath Festival by the Westbrook Orchestra. The group included vocalists Kate Westbrook and John
Winfield, cellist Stanley Adler , trumpeters Noel Langley and James McMillan , and saxophonists Peter Whyman and Alan Wakeman. The programme also includes Westbrook's compositions Checking In at Hôtel le Prieure, South from Toulouse and Music Is. During the interval,
Alyn Shipton talks to him about his work. Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Simpson.
Introduces:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Kate Westbrook
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Stanley Adler
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Noel Langley
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James McMillan
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Peter Whyman
Unknown:
Alan Wakeman.
Talks:
Alyn Shipton
Source: Radio Times

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