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Composer of the Week is a biographical music programme produced by BBC Cymru Wales and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.It is broadcast daily from Monday to Friday at 4pm for an hour, with each week's programmes being a self-contained series of five dedicated to a particular composer or a group of related composers.
The title refers to the sound of church-bells and it sets Crosse's own choice of texts by a variety of English poets ("I spent as long choosing the text as writing the music"), [3] an approach similar to that of Britten in his Spring Symphony. Though the subject-matter is often dark – many of the texts relate to death – the composer aimed ...
Radio 3 is the successor station to the Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. [8] The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 [9]: 247 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service).
For BBC Radio 3, Talkington has presented and produced a wide variety of programmes such as Late Junction, [1] Composer of the Week (working with trumpeter John Wallace on a series on John Philip Sousa and Scott Joplin), Radio 3 Requests, the BBC Proms, Breakfast, Sacred and Profane, Afternoon on 3 and Womad.
[28] [29] From 4 to 8 January 2021, Price was the BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week. Following her death, much of her work was overshadowed as new musical styles emerged that fit the changing tastes of modern society. Some of her work was lost, but as more African-American and female composers gained attention for their works, so did Price.
BBC Radio 3 devoted their "Composer of the Week" segment to her during the second week of August 2006, the year of the centenary of her birth. This resulted in several new performances of long-unperformed works, including her Violin Concerto (1950) [ 18 ] and her Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra (1941).
The first BBC broadcast of Choral Evensong came from Westminster Abbey in 1926. The first edition was relayed by the British Broadcasting Company from Westminster Abbey on 7 October 1926. [1] [3] The programme continued on the BBC Home Service, later BBC Radio 4, until 8 April 1970, when it moved to BBC Radio 3.
The Lakes is a British television drama series, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern, first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 September 1997. [1] The series, which was principally filmed in and around Patterdale and The Ullswater Hotel, Glenridding, [2] stars John Simm as Danny Kavanagh, a hotel porter, compulsive gambler, and philanderer who escapes from the dole queues in Liverpool to ...