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Music for a Wizard Whizz: a Tribute to Humphrey Carpenter

on BBC Radio 3

Russell Davies presents a concert dedicated to the memory of writer, broadcaster, musician and biographer of Radio 3 Humphrey Carpenter , who died in 2005. The concert was given in Cadogan Hall , London, earlier this year, and features music that has a special connection with Carpenter, including an excerpt from the children's musical based on his popular
Mr Majeika books, and some of the arrangements he himself made for his dance band Vile Bodies.
New London Children's Choir, Graham Sibley (tuba),
Pooky Quesnel (singer), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp

Contributors

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Russell Davies
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Humphrey Carpenter
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Cadogan Hall
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Mr Majeika
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Graham Sibley
Singer:
Pooky Quesnel

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