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Recommendations / BBC Radio 3 The Story of the Little Book
« on: May 28, 2023, 02:09:50 pm »
Hello - this programme mentioned some of the people referred to on out course:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lzfw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lzfw
The Story of the Little Book
In this final episode of Emma's reflections on the nature of the libretto and the history of librettists she brings things into the modern age where breaks in convention have provided exciting new possibiltites for today's creators of opera. In the age of cinema, rolling news, TV, and things digital, a whole new range of possibilties have been opened up regarding how a story might be told when drama and music come together. The programme features the work of librettists WH Auden and Chester Kallman, Meredith Oakes, Martin Crimp, April de Angelis, Alice Goodman, Stephen Sondheim, David Pountney and Randolph Stow ; with the music of Igor Stravinsky, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Tippett, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Jonathon Dove, John Adams, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Maxwell Davis, and Kamala Sankaram
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lzfw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lzfw
The Story of the Little Book
In this final episode of Emma's reflections on the nature of the libretto and the history of librettists she brings things into the modern age where breaks in convention have provided exciting new possibiltites for today's creators of opera. In the age of cinema, rolling news, TV, and things digital, a whole new range of possibilties have been opened up regarding how a story might be told when drama and music come together. The programme features the work of librettists WH Auden and Chester Kallman, Meredith Oakes, Martin Crimp, April de Angelis, Alice Goodman, Stephen Sondheim, David Pountney and Randolph Stow ; with the music of Igor Stravinsky, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Tippett, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Jonathon Dove, John Adams, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Maxwell Davis, and Kamala Sankaram