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Reading Music

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Miles Kington and his guests review and recommend books about music. To commemorate the centenary of Gershwin's birth, his friend Larry Adler compares two recent biographies of the composer. And flautist James Galway recalls his time under the baton of Herbert von Karajan , the subject of A Life in Music by Richard Osborne.
E-MAIL: reading.music@bbc.co.uk For details of books reviewed ring the Radio 2 Information Line on 08 [number removed]

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Miles Kington
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Larry Adler
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James Galway
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Herbert von Karajan
Music By:
Richard Osborne.
Source: Radio Times

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