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| All Musics Are Created Equal - Gunther Schuller At 80 | ...GEOFFREY SMITH explores Gunther Schuller's multifarious career and the controversies it has generated, talking with jazz musicians Joe Lovano and George Russell; composers taught by Schuller including Oliver Knussen, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Mike Gibbs; students from New ENGLAND Conservatory in Boston and music critics.... |
| Artist Focus | ...GEOFFREY SMITH features pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who begins the programme with Schubert's Impromptu in E flat, D899.... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Presented by GEOFFREY SMITH, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Presented by GEOFFREY SMITH, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Presented by GEOFFREY SMITH, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Day Of Dance | ...To welcome the New Year, GEOFFREY SMITH hosts a Radio 3 special day featuring 500 years of dance music from Old and New worlds.... |
| Discovering Music | ...Miles Davis' 1959 album is one of the most significant achievements in the history of post war jazz. GEOFFREY SMITH dissects the different numbers on the album.... |
| Friedrich Gulda | ...Presented by GEOFFREY SMITH, with contributions from Gulda's sons, Paul and Rico, his widow Yuko, pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and critic Bryce Morrison.... |
| Hundred Years From Today - The Genius Of Jack Teagarden, A | ...In the 1920s Jack played and sang in his lazy Texan drawl with everyone who was anyone: Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon and Louis Armstrong, before joining Paul Whiteman as the star soloist for five years in the 1930s. Alongside archival interviews with Jack and Charlie Teagarden, GEOFFREY SMITH is joined by trombonists Roy Williams and Scott Stroman to look at Jack's early work and examine what made up that unique sound.... |
| Invitation To The Dance | ...The dance critic Ismene Brown joins GEOFFREY SMITH to explore the origins of dance, and how the dance hall moved into the theatre and the ballroom to the concert hall. Other themes for the afternoon include the dance and Nationalism, and what George Bernard Shaw described as "a vertical expression of a horizontal desire"!... |
| Jazz Record Requests | ...GEOFFREY SMITH presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.... |
| Music Machine | ...Verity Sharp takes a look at borrowing music in the jazz world. She talks to writer and broadcaster GEOFFREY SMITH about the widespread practice of quoting other well-known tunes in improvised solos.... |
| Music Matters | ...In conversation with GEOFFREY SMITH, Nigel Kennedy pays tribute to the great improvising violinist Stephane Grappelli. Featuring some of the classic recordings and selections from the archive.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...GEOFFREY SMITH talks to some of the players, Executive Director Gary Hanson, Artistic Administrator Peter Czornyj and the current Music Director Franz Welser-Möst... |
| Passion 4 Radio, A | ...Who is Jesus? Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tell their versions of the events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. Christopher Cook, GEOFFREY SMITH, Jeremy Summerly and Alan Walker look for answers today in Jerusalem and LONDON. Including: 7.30pm: Do this in remembrance... Remembering the Last Supper, and Lance Lambert on the Jewishness of CHRISTIANity. 8.00pm: Before the cock crows... Building the Temple, and Elias Chacour on living beyond betrayal in the Holy Land. 8.30pm: It is as you say... Following the Via Dolorosa, and students from Syracuse University on trial by media. 9.00pm It is finished. Meeting Archbishop Aristarchos in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the story continues.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Joining Stephen in the studio is GEOFFREY SMITH to introduce Duke Ellington's legendary Third Sacred Concert, recorded at Westminster Abbey in 1973.... |
| Richard Rodgers - The Sound Of The American Dream | ...GEOFFREY SMITH discusses the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein in the context of postwar America, with contributions from performers, producer Hal Prince and Rodgers's daughters.... |
| Something Understood | ...Although hope is one of the cardinal virtues, it can be hard to maintain in especially bleak circumstances. GEOFFREY SMITH explores hope in extremis with help from the poetry of Thomas Hardy and George Herbert, the writings of Primo Levi and Loren Eiseley, and music ranging from Schubert to Big Bill Broonzy.... |
| Sounds American | ...GEOFFREY SMITH explores what it is about American classical music that makes it sound American. With contributions from musicologists Dave Nicholls and Mischa Donat, conductor Leonard Slatkin and composers Steve Reich, Steve Montague and John Adams, as well as archive interviews with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson.... |
| Wandering Minstrels | ...For well over a century, Gilbert and Sullivan have been syonymous with a perfect blend of good humour and good tunes - satirical fun in an operatic setting. In this three-part series, GEOFFREY SMITH investigates some of the ways the composer responded to the librettist, building on and sometimes parodying music from Purcell and Handel to Verdi and Wagner. The first programme examines Sullivan's use of operatic imitations.... |