Sunday, June 14, 2015
Fascinating BBC Radio 3 programme on Ligeti just now ... rebroadcast from a year ago. His assistant explained his love of the Marx brothers films & their role in a composition.
Marvellous the way that a reputation for frosty esotericism is suddenly exploded by such an anecdote.
(Much as Zappa talked of Boulez's predilection for pigs' trotters & other such delicacies).
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Today, boys and girls, we’re going to look at ‘Song of the Chinchilla’ by Lisa Jarnot*. I liked the poem immediately – and I’ve given it to ...
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April Fool?
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