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Hear and Now: Free Thinking: Tearing up the Rule Book

07/11/2015

Free Thinking: Tearing up the Rule Book

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Free Thinking: Tearing up the Rule Book

Tom Service talks to Helmut Lachenmann who turns 80. Plus Peter Evans at Baltic 39.

Tom Service hears from composer Helmut Lachenmann as he turns 80. Plus Kerry Andrew with a report on Peter J Evans's Broken Telephone installation at Baltic 39 in Gateshead.

As part of Free Thinking, Tom Service talks to one of the most visionary and rule-breaking contemporary composers, Helmut Lachenmann, who turns 80 on 27th November. The programme includes a selection of works chosen by Helmut Lachenmann. Tom Service also pays tribute to the British-Australian composer Roger Smalley, who died in August this year and was one of the most distinctive composers of the post-Second World War generation. Plus, Kerry Andrew visits BALTIC 39 in Newcastle, where Free Thinking is taking place this weekend, to report on Peter J Evans's new sound-installation, Broken Telephone.

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