The Survival of the Symphony The last of six talks by the composer Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, about what musicians have done to music.
Stand Up and Be Misunderstood Modernism is not a matter of style - fragmentation, dissonance, free form - but of content; a direct engagement with past masterpieces and present reality. But can modernism be combined with the renewal of the symphony? (Re-broadcaston Sunday on Radio 3) 'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'