From the Barbican, a concert given as part of the Inventing
America series which includes a classic piece of American contemporary music by Steve Reich. The Desert Music pulls no punches about the decline of man in the modern age and the wasteland of civilisation, post-Hiroshima.
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, conductor Marin Alsop
Frank Zappa The Perfect Stranger; Dupree's Paradise
Milton Babbitt Around the Horn
Ruth Crawford Seeger Three American Songs
8.10 New Music
She studies Tallis, he deals in reinforced concrete. So what is the attraction? A new story by Carol Shields specially commissioned with BBC
Music Magazine. Reader David Threlfall.
8.30 Steve Reich The Desert Music