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* A Musical Friend

on BBC Radio 3

A memoir of the composer William Sterndale Bennett
In the last of four programmes Charles Villiers Stanford , writing in 1916, looks back at the closing years of Bennett's career: his introduction to
England of Bach's choral music, his appointment to the Professorship of Music at
Cambridge, and his efforts to save the Royal Academy of Music from closure.
Reader Denys Hawthorne Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
William Sterndale Bennett
Unknown:
Charles Villiers Stanford
Reader:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Judith Elliott

BBC Radio 3

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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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