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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: John Adams (1947-)

Composer of the Week: John Adams (1947-): Episode 4: Wide Open Spaces

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Adams and Macleod

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Episode 4: Wide Open Spaces

John Adams (1947-)

Wide Open Spaces

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, John Adams (1947-), Wide Open Spaces

Donald Macleod on John Adams's music inspired by travelling through the American landscape

Donald Macleod explores John Adams's music inspired by travelling through the American landscape.

Donald Macleod's guest this week, John Adams, has said of his music that 'in a sense, all of my pieces are travel pieces - it's the way I experience musical form'. Today, the composer talks about some of his journeys in sound, about comparisons that have been made between himself and Copland, and about the health of American contemporary music. And we hear a piece named after an actual truck stop high up in the Sierra Nevada in California: Hallelujah Junction.

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 talks to America's most frequently performed living composer, John Adams

Donald Macleod talks to America's most frequently performed living composer, John Adams, about his work

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