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Music Matters: Freddie De Tommaso, Andre J Thomas

Freddie De Tommaso, Andre J Thomas

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Freddie De Tommaso, Andre J Thomas

Tom Service talks to tenor Freddie De Tommaso and choral director André J Thomas.

Tom Service talks to tenor Freddie De Tommaso and also meets choral director André J Thomas, who is uniting the voices of gospel and community choirs from across London.

Tom Service meets the British Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso ahead of his starring role in Madame Butterfly at the Royal Opera House. Conductor André J Thomas, who has just been announced as LSO Associate Artist, tells Tom about his life in choral music and his project to unite the voices of gospel and community choirs from across London.  

There's also a report on the innovative music programme to help rehabilitate inmates at Karachi Central Jail in Pakistan, and news of a project taking music into schools in Bristol.

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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