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Front Row: The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Carolina Eyck performs, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

Huw Stephens reports from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Tregaron, Ceredigion.

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, jazz historian Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, and musician Carolina Eyck performs on the theremin.

Huw Stephens reports from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Tregaron, Ceredigion, talking to Archdruid Myrddin ap Dafydd, winner of this year’s Novel Prize Meinir Pierce Jones, and folk singer Owen Shiers. 

In 1965 the jury recommended that the Pulitzer Prize for Music should be awarded to the jazz composer and band-leader Duke Ellington. But he did not receive the honour. The music historian Ted Gioia has started a petition calling for him to receive it posthumously now. 

Carolina Eyck brings the eight seasons of Lapland’s Sami people to the Proms, courtesy of a concerto written for her and her instrument - the theremin. She talks to Shahidha about the joy of playing a musical instrument that has fascinated audiences since its creation just over a century ago and that she plays with just the movement of her hands in the air.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Julian May

Image: The National Eisteddfod of Wales Photographer credit: Alun Gaffey

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