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Front Row: What is Inspiration? Plus playing music from memory with the Aurora Orchestra

What is Inspiration? Plus playing music from memory with the Aurora Orchestra

02/08/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, What is Inspiration? Plus playing music from memory with the Aurora Orchestra

Stella Duffy, Kei Miller, Julian Baggini and Aowen Jin attempt to define inspiration.

Stella Duffy, Kei Miller, Julian Baggini, Aowen Jin and Philip Venables attempt to define inspiration. Plus, how can an orchestra play an entire symphony from memory?

Yesterday we launched our new season Inspire. Today we ask the key question: what is inspiration? The poet Kei Miller, the composer Philip Venables, the novelist Stella Duffy, the artist Aowen Jin and the philosopher Julian Baggini join Front Row to share their thoughts on the line between a magical moment and hard graft.

On Monday Aurora Orchestra return to the BBC Proms to perform Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony entirely from memory. We're joined in the studio by the orchestra's principle cellist Torun Stavseng and concert pianist and music writer Susan Tomes to explore the opportunities and limitations of performing classical music without a score.

Presenter: Stig Abell
Producer: Hilary Dunn.

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