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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: William Schuman (1910-1992)

Composer of the Week: William Schuman (1910-1992): Episode 5

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William Schuman (1910-1992)

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, William Schuman (1910-1992), Episode 5

Donald Macleod introduces Schuman's final years, including his witty Mail Order Madrigals.

Donald Macleod introduces Schuman's final years, including a rare recording of his witty Mail Order Madrigals - setting ads from a shopping catalogue.

As American music moved into the 1970 and 80s, William Schuman - born in the time of Gershwin and Cole Porter - increasingly seemed an anachronism, with his symphonies, concertos and quartets. Yet his creative fire was undiminished - in this final programme, Donald Macleod introduces a set of madrigals set to words from a 19th-century mail-order catalogue, and a virtuoso 'wine guessing game' aria from an opera to a libretto by Roald Dahl.

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.

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of American composer William Schuman

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