BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Saturday Classics

Music: Classical

A view of classical music from a range of presenters; themed series and one-off programmes

A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.

Saturday Classics: Geoffrey Smith

Saturday Classics: Geoffrey Smith: Episode 1: Syncopation, Blue Notes and the Sound of Surprise

Syncopation, Blue Notes and the Sound of Surprise

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Episode 1: Syncopation, Blue Notes and the Sound of Surprise

Geoffrey Smith

BBC Radio 3 - Saturday Classics, Geoffrey Smith, Syncopation, Blue Notes and the Sound of Surprise

How classical composers such as Ravel, Copland and Stravinsky were inspired by jazz.

Geoffrey Smith explores how classical composers such as Ravel, Copland and Stravinsky were inspired by jazz.

Syncopation, blue notes and the sound of surprise. 
The first of two programmes in which Geoffrey Smith explores the influences classical music and jazz have had on each other.
In this programme we look at how the new sound-world of jazz inspired classical composers such as Ravel, Copland and Stravinsky.

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.

Geoffrey Smith explores the influences classical music and jazz have had on each other

Radio 3 presenter Geoffrey Smith explores the influences classical music and jazz have had on each other

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