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Choir and Organ

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Choir and Organ: The Ghanaian borborbor

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Music: Classical: Choral

15/01/2017

The Ghanaian borborbor

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, The Ghanaian borborbor

Sara Mohr-Pietsch discovers the celebratory world of Ghanaian borborbor.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch discovers the celebratory world of Ghanaian borborbor. Plus another amateur choir featured in Meet My Choi and Sara's Choral Classic: Tavener's Song for Athene.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks with Akornefa Akyea from Afropop Worldwide about the celebratory world of Ghanaian borborbor. Sara's choral classic is one of the best known works by the British composer John Tavener, his Song for Athene. It's another amateur choir's turn to introduce themselves in Meet My Choir and there are other pieces for voices by Handel and Bruckner.

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