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3: Very Tragical Mirth. Christopher Cook offers an invitation to take the best seat in the house for a mixture of comedy and tragedy as depicted through incidental music for plays. Today's programme includes Jacques Ibert and French farce, Arthur Sullivan and Shakespearian tragedy, and Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils- music written by Alexander
Glazunovfor Oscar Wilde's play. The programme also includes the first broadcast of music by Benjamin Britten for JB Priestley 's expressionistic psychological drama Johnson over Jordan.

Contributors

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Christopher Cook
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Jacques Ibert
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Arthur Sullivan
Music By:
Benjamin Britten
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JB Priestley
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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