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Composer of the Week

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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: Lord Berners

Composer of the Week: Lord Berners: Episode 3: Berners the Ballet Master

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Lord Berners

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Episode 3: Berners the Ballet Master

Berners the Ballet Master

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Lord Berners, Berners the Ballet Master

Donald Macleod presents a fantastical Berners ballet, featuring various strange characters

Donald Macleod introduces two Berners ballets - one devised with Gertrude Stein and the other a fantastical work with various bizarre characers.

In the mid 1920s, Lord Berners started to take painting much more seriously and composing fell by the wayside. But that was soon to change: with the advent of the Wall Street Crash Berners felt the need for a reliable source of income and returned to writing music.
Donald Macleod introduces Berners's next two ballets - one, devised in collaboration with the American writer Gertrude Stein about unrequited love, the other a fantastical work featuring a three-headed man, a three-legged juggler, a one-legged ballerina, and a man with six arms!

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 music of the eccentric British composer Lord Berners

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the colourful and eccentric British composer Lord Berners. While he behaved as a very English gentleman, his compositions had a distinctive European slant

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