The monthly review of what is happening in Music Now
The last programme of the current series
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Sir Michael Tippett
co-director of the Bath Festival, discusses its aims and conducts the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra in his new work Interlude II
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Osian Ellis
plays part of a new Suite for harp by Benjamin Britten, which has its premiere at next month's Aldeburgh Festival
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Rosemary Brown
the London housewife talks to Richard Rodney Bennett about the music she claims has been dictated to her by great composers of the past, and Stephen Bishop plays one of these pieces, a Moment Musical by Schubert
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Harrison Birtwistle
introduces his new work Down by the Greenwood Side, commissioned for the Brighton Festival, and David Atherton conducts an excerpt from it, with Jenny Hill and the Music Theatre Ensemble
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(Colour)