"The things that we may feel we want to say about young composers have been said about us all. This doesn't mean that necessarily everybody's going to turn out all for the good but at least it's interesting to know that its a universal effect of new ideas of any kind, good or bad"

Sir Michael Tippett talks to four young British composers and draws some conclusions in the course of a reshowing of the introductions to their work first seen in Music Now.

John Tavener: a film profile and Three Surrealist Songs with Honor McKellar

Roger Smalley: in Cambridge and in the studio with Transformation 1 for piano and electronic modulation with Tim Souster

Harrison Birtwistle rehearses Down by the Greenwood Side and David Atherton conducts an extract from it, with Jenny Hill and The Music Theatre Ensemble

Peter Maxwell Davies introduces L'Homme Arme and conducts The Pierrot Players in a performance of an extract

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