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Morning Performance

on BBC Radio 3

Plays and Players
1: "It Was Greek to Me. in the first of five programmes on incidental music for theatre plays, Christopher Cook looks at the comedies and tragedies of the Ancient Greeks. The programme includes choruses by Mendelssohn for Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus; music for Sophocles's Electra by Danish composer
Alphons Diepenbrock and a focus on some of the music by Hubert Parry and Ralph Vaughan Williams forthe Aristophanic comedies given in productions by the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club.

Contributors

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Christopher Cook
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Alphons Diepenbrock
Music By:
Hubert Parry
Music By:
Ralph Vaughan

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