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Composing New York - BBC Radio 4 1.30pm Tuesday, 20th July
New York City has always drawn composers from the Old World - from Dvorak and Mahler to Kurt Weill, Rachmaninov and Benjamin Britten. Some, like Puccini, crossed the Atlantic to premier new works, others like Gustav Mahler stayed for longer periods to compose, study and conduct. But all were shaped by the energy of New York, just as the city's musical culture was shaped, in turn, by them. Behind this extraordinary cultural exchange lay a deeper question: what should a truly American "classical" music sound like? Did it lie outside the concert hall and with the Broadway musical, as envisaged by Kurt Weill? Or was it Dvorak's iconic New World symphony, with its powerful invocations of the black American spiritual, that pointed the way?
Iran & The West wins Banff Award
Iran & The West has won best Political Documentary at the Rockie Non-Fiction Awards in Banff. It also picked up a Peabody from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 17 and a bronze medal at the 3 May New York Festival Awards.
Norma Percy Wins Orwell Prize
Norma has been awarded the 2010 Orwell lifetime achievement prize for "her unflagging commitment, energy and resourcefulness over some three decades of important work that reframed key events in contemporary history by showing the human face of history: that mortals were involved." Click on picture to read about Norma at The Oldie.
Gold at the Sony Radio Awards
Brook Lapping Radio won Gold in the Best Feature category for ‘Archive on 4: Working for Margaret’, presented by Matthew Parris and produced by Simon Hollis for BBC Radio 4. The feature was praised by the judges for 'the way the producer mixed contemporary comment with archive recordings of Mrs Thatcher in her home environment. .. Parris’ affection for his subject and his skills as a writer made this an effortlessly compelling and affectionate portrait of his former boss’.
Sunday 2 May, 7.30pm Channel 4: What They Won't Tell Us
Do the political parties' pre-election promises add up? Are they even possible? Can the health service budget truly be ring-fenced? Can the deficit really be paid off without major tax rises? Will our jobs and pensions be protected after the election? Presented by Jon Snow, this programme examines the reality behind the pledges, assembling its own 'think tank' of the kind of people who have made these decisions, and who know what we're not being told.
