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Front Row: Oliver Beer, Nicola LeFanu, Grace Evangeline Mason, May Day poems

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01/05/2017

Oliver Beer, Nicola LeFanu, Grace Evangeline Mason, May Day poems

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Oliver Beer, Nicola LeFanu, Grace Evangeline Mason, May Day poems

Sound artist and composer Oliver Beer shows John how to make ancient pots sing.

Sound artist Oliver Beer on making ancient pots and buildings sing, and composer Nicola LeFanu at 70.

The composer and artist Oliver Beer discusses his new acoustics project in which he explores the resonant frequencies of the empty spaces of buildings and everyday vessels.

To mark her 70th birthday the composer Nicola LeFanu talks about her career in the world of contemporary classical music, from her childhood making music for the plays she wrote to the recent premiere at the Barbican of her latest large-scale work, The Crimson Bird. 

On 17 July 1717 George Frideric Handel premiered his Water Music for King George I, and to mark the 300th anniversary of this musical landmark Front Row has commissioned a new piece by Grace Evangeline Mason, the 2013 winner of the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composer Competition. Before beginning work on the piece she came in to meet John and discuss her early ideas.

To celebrate May Day, poet Alison Brackenbury discusses the joy of spring in verse and reads a section of John Clare's The Shepherd's Calendar and her own poem May Day, 1972.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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