Words and Music - BBC Radio 3
Apr 8, 2013 6:21:53 GMT
Post by nell on Apr 8, 2013 6:21:53 GMT
It looks like we have something new to look forward to. Correct me if I'm wrong but this is new to me. The credit goes to a tip off from a friend.
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/17/r3-words-and-music.html
Sunday 21 April
6.30-7.45pm
BBC RADIO 3
Gemma Arterton and Rufus Sewell read extracts on the subject of Time, a theme which has always been popular with authors, poets and composers. From the mourning of the passing of time in poems by Shakespeare, DH Lawrence and John Milton, to the writers who play with the very concept of time.
Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter bargained with Time, determined that it should always be teatime, while in Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamadore, moments in the past and future are as permanent as in the present. Martin Amis takes the idea to the extreme by writing the narrative of his novel Time's Arrow backwards, and there's also time travel, from Scrooge's nocturnal visit to his past, to HG Wells's Time Machine disappearing into the future. Many composers from the classical, jazz and pop worlds have experimented with unusual or constantly changing time signatures, while composers such as Guillaume de Machaut and Conlon Nancarrow go even further by writing works in which music retraces its steps and goes backwards. The programme also includes music by Haydn, Messiaen, Ligeti and Pink Floyd.
Presenter/ Gemma Arterton and Rufus Sewell, Producer/ Ellie Mant
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/17/r3-words-and-music.html
Sunday 21 April
6.30-7.45pm
BBC RADIO 3
Gemma Arterton and Rufus Sewell read extracts on the subject of Time, a theme which has always been popular with authors, poets and composers. From the mourning of the passing of time in poems by Shakespeare, DH Lawrence and John Milton, to the writers who play with the very concept of time.
Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter bargained with Time, determined that it should always be teatime, while in Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamadore, moments in the past and future are as permanent as in the present. Martin Amis takes the idea to the extreme by writing the narrative of his novel Time's Arrow backwards, and there's also time travel, from Scrooge's nocturnal visit to his past, to HG Wells's Time Machine disappearing into the future. Many composers from the classical, jazz and pop worlds have experimented with unusual or constantly changing time signatures, while composers such as Guillaume de Machaut and Conlon Nancarrow go even further by writing works in which music retraces its steps and goes backwards. The programme also includes music by Haydn, Messiaen, Ligeti and Pink Floyd.
Presenter/ Gemma Arterton and Rufus Sewell, Producer/ Ellie Mant
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
sounds amazing....
