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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Thea Musgrave (1928-): Happy Birthday!

Thea Musgrave (1928-)

Happy Birthday!

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Donald Macleod and Thea Musgrave reflect on her long life of happy music making

Donald Macleod talks with Thea Musgrave about her long life of happy music making

All this week, Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as the Scottish born composer celebrates her 90th birthday. 

In this final programme, Thea talks about the continuing pleasure she still derives from composing. Also, the on-going friendships she has with players, especially with the percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and the oboist Nicholas Daniel. And she describes the speech she made on recently winning the classical music prize at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards, about the vitally important part that music plays in all of our lives.

On the Underground, Set 1: Sometimes
New York Virtuoso Singers
Harold Rosenbaum, conductor

Songs for a Winter’s Evening
Lisa Milne, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor

Two’s Company – a concerto for percussion and orchestra 
Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Rosie Boulton for BBC Wales

Composer of the Week: Thea Musgrave (1928-)

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Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as she marks her 90th birthday.

Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thea Musgrave as the Scottish composer marks her 90th birthday.

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