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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.
In late 1987, Macleod was presenting Midweek Choice on BBC Radio 3. [5] In 1990 he was presenting various programmes for BBC Radio 3. [6] For four years prior to 1996, Macleod was in charge of presentation at BBC Radio 3. [3] From May 1996 onwards, Macleod presented Through The Night on BBC Radio 3. [7] He joined Composer of the Week in 1999. [8]
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 ...
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 ...
Molleson presented BBC Radio 3 concerts from 2015 onwards [5] and first presented Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 in May 2021. [6] Molleson has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. [7] In 2023, she began presenting some editions of Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3, [8] with Donald Macleod presenting the other editions ...
Ken Burton (born 5 January 1970) is a British choral and orchestral conductor, composer, [1] performer, producer, presenter, arranger and judge, widely known for his work and appearances on UK television programmes, particularly BBC1 Songs Of Praise, on which he appears regularly as a conductor, musical director, arranger, singer, judge, music producer, and music consultant.
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) [ 19 ] and her Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra (1941).
In 2015, Kendall was noted as one of the "brilliant female composers under the age of 35". [3] She featured on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week . [ 4 ] All five composers of the week were women and this was part of Radio 3's International Women's Day celebrations, which were highlighted in The Guardian . [ 5 ]