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| Music Around The World - New Zealand And The Pacific | ...Andrew McGregor and SIMON BROUGHTON present a special day of programmes celebrating the richness and diversity of the living traditions of music across the world at the beginning of the new millennium. In the first programme of the morning, Christine Argyle introduces ancient traditional musics from the New Zealand and Pacific regions, including Maori songs performed by Te Waka Huia and Pacific Island drumming by Orama from the Cook Islands.... |
| Music Around The World - The Balkans | ...From Croatian Radio in Zagreb, members of traditional folk group Lado introduce a performance of tamburica music. And from Hungary, a traditional New Year's song performed by one of Hungary's best-known singers, Marta Sebestyen, and SIMON BROUGHTON's own field recordings from the region.... |
| Music Around The World | ...Andrew McGregor and SIMON BROUGHTON host a day-long musical tour of the globe, exploring the diversity of music worldwide through live performances, studio guests and features from foreign correspondents. In the first programme, Penny Lomax introduces performances from Australia, including music from cross-cultural band Mara.... |
| Music Machine | ...Tommy Pearson discusses the advent of world music in the 90s with SIMON BROUGHTON and Charlie Gillett. The CD revolution has seen music flooding in from all corners of the globe. World music is now big business; the sound is influencing music as diverse as dance music and jazz, classical and film music; and it is part of the National Curriculum.... |
| World Routes | ...Lucy Duran introduces music from around the globe: Janet Topp Fargion talks about the British Library Sound ArcHIVe's World and Traditional Music recordings, there's a report from SIMON BROUGHTON in Siberia, and Verity Sharp meets Sheila Stewart, one of the greatest singers of traditional Scottish music, who is the last in the line of a rich oral tradition of song, story and traveller culture.... |