from the Prague Festival
David Oistrakh (violin)
Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello)
Lev Oborin (piano)
State Symphony Orchestra of the U.S.S.R.
Conducted by Konstantin Ivanov
At the time of going to press the full programme is not settled. It will include
Beethoven's Triple Concerto and a Symphony by the young Soviet composer Espa] From the Smetana Hall, Prague Broadcast by courtesy of GeskoslovenskyRozhlas
DURING THE CONCERT INTERVAL of fifteen minutes
COMPOSERS OR
COMPUTERS by Philip Laird
In this talk Philip Laird examines the general direction in which the avantgarde are moving the art of composition. He argues that their techniques have brought music closer to science and that the more that music is conceived pre-compositionally the easier it is to produce on a computer.
: second broadcast