Compact Discoveries 150: Tuneful Contemporaries
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:58:00
This is the program for those who think that modern music is all atonal and tuneless. It includes immediately enjoyable, melodious pieces by contemporary composers G. Bush (Geoffrey, not George), Joseph Horovitz, William Bland (who does not live up to his name), and Howard Blake. These are true compact discoveries!
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This is the program for those who think that modern music is all atonal and tuneless. It includes immediately enjoyable, melodious pieces by contemporary composers G. Bush (Geoffrey, not George), Joseph Horovitz, William Bland (who does not live up to his name), and Howard Blake. These are true compact discoveries!
Broadcast History
This is the world premiere of this program.
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Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2008 by Fred Flaxman
Program 150
"Tuneful Contemporaries"
MUSIC: Horovitz: the opening of the Third Movement from his Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano performed by David Campbell, clarinet, and Andrew Ball, piano [Meridian CDE 84474, track 19] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman.
As the producer and host of this program, I receive a great many promotional CDs to consider for broadcast, and I’m very consciencious about giving all of them a try. Since this program is called Compact Discoveries, I’m always trying to find CDs of undeservedly neglected works by composers living and dead.
I have to admit that it is easier for me to find beautiful melodies from departed composers than from contemporary ones. Sometimes...
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