Music Matters

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Tom meets Sir Simon Rattle and, ahead of BBC Music Day, there is new research into music and dementia.

Tom talks to the conductor Sir Simon Rattle about politics, life with the London Symphony Orchestra, and his vision for the new 2000-seater concert venue planned for London's Culture Mile.

Ahead of BBC Music Day on 26th September, Tom visits LV21, a 40-metre steel-hulled lightship in Gravesham, Kent, now a floating art space and home this month to the Reflect Arts & Minds Project, with performances exploring the relationship between sound, music and wellbeing. Featuring the folk singer Lucy Farrell and a sound installation in the bowels of the ship from Tania Holland Williams. Plus a project called Musical Portraits from producers Turtle Key Arts, in which young people with autism create new music from visual art.

Plus the electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, who appears in the second season of Luminate at Kings Place, on her lifelong obsession with the Buchla synthesizer, and the connections between sea, sound and machine.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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