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Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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Something Understood: Who Makes the Music?

Embracing the Classical

12/11/2017

Who Makes the Music?

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Who Makes the Music?

Mark Tully celebrates the creative chain that links composer, performer and audience.

Mark Tully talks to musician and academic John Rink about shifting perceptions of the relationship between composer and performer. Music ranges from classical to jazz and soul.

There is a golden chain in music which links the author of a work, its various performers and the audiences who hear it. Mark Tully investigates the creative part played by each of these groups over the life of a piece. 

He discusses the creative responsibilities and expectations of music making with musician and Professor of Performance Studies, John Rink, and they explore the challenges to traditional attitudes in this artistic chain.

The music chosen includes Chopin, sacred music interpreted by the Hilliard Ensemble, jazz from Billie Holliday and soul from the Edwin Hawkins Singers. There is argument from Igor Stravinsky, Peter Maxwell Davies, Shakespeare and American poet David Lee Garrison.

The readers are Francis Cadder, Christopher Harper and Polly Frame.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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