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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00 The Land Where the Good Songs Go A Journey in Search of Forgotten Musicals
Presented by Mark Steyn. 5: Lerner after Loewe
Lyricist Alan J Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe wrote a string of hits. After Loewe's retirement in 1960, Lerner worked with a number of different composing partners, and it is some of this lesser known later work that Mark
Steyn explores with Lerner's collaborators.
John Barry remembers the ill-fated lolita, My Love, based on Nabokov's novel,
Burton Lane explains why Carmelina slipped away, Charles Strouse recalls
Lerner's very last show - Dance a Little Closer, and Arthur Laurents explains why he knew 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue was never going to work. A Cat's Whiskers/Rewind production
Repeated Friday at 12 midnight
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
FAIREST ISLE
3.00 Carnegie
Publication Scheme
Lewis Foreman introduces a selection of the music submitted in competitions organised by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Norman Hay String Quartet in A
Gurney Ludlow and Teme Bliss Rhapsody for mezzo, tenor and ensemble
Warlock The
Curlew Walton Piano Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Presented By:
Mark Steyn.
Unknown:
Frederick Loewe
Unknown:
John Barry
Unknown:
Burton Lane
Unknown:
Charles Strouse
Unknown:
Arthur Laurents
Introduces:
Lewis Foreman
Unknown:
Andrew Carnegie.
Unknown:
Norman Hay
Piano:
Curlew Walton

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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