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In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers

Rebecca Front

Sophie Deveson

Jonty Claypole

Grace Brassington

In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers: Episode 2: But Is It Music? (1945-1989)

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But Is It Music? (1945-1989)

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Episode 2: But Is It Music? (1945-1989)

BBC Four - In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers, But Is It Music? (1945-1989)

How the crisis of writing music in a post-war world was met in very different ways.

How the crisis of writing music in a post-war world was met in different ways by the likes of Britten, Bernstein, Cage, Boulez, Stockhausen, and Reich.

We discover how the crisis of writing music in a post-war world was met in very different ways by the likes of Britten, Bernstein, Cage, Boulez, Stockhausen, Maxwell Davies, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Tavener, Reich, Adams and Glass. Tavener plays badminton whilst drunk, Cage defends his 4'33" of 'silence' and Delia Derbyshire, co-creator of the Doctor Who theme tune, reveals how British techno music has its roots in the bowels of the BBC.

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