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Something Understood: Embracing The Classical

Embracing the Classical

Embracing The Classical

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Embracing The Classical

Mark Tully debates the cultural benefits of classical music with composer James MacMillan.

Mark Tully and composer James MacMillan discuss the benefits of reaching out to new audiences with classical music. With music from the Scottish Symphony Orchestra tour of India.

Luciano Pavarotti said it was "so important at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera." Mark Tully and composer James MacMillan discuss the cross-cultural benefits of sharing classical traditions with new audiences and the power of music to unite.

The two first met during the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's tour of India earlier this year. Most of the music in this programme is taken from those concerts, as well as from the family concerts which accompanied them, where young audiences got their first introduction to Western classical traditions.

Mark and James compare the classical traditions of East and West and consider the exciting opportunities for music in a new global culture.
 
With music by Bizet, Schoenberg and Tchaikovsky and readings from Coleridge, Joyce Grenfell and Alice Herz-Sommer.
 
The readers are Jane Whittenshaw, David Westhead and Francis Cadder.
 
 
Produced by Frank Stirling
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