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Accidental Beauties of Silly Songs
Summary : Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith explores WH Auden's fascination with music and song, including his collaborations with Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky.
Details : Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith explores WH Auden's fascination with music and song, including his collaborations with Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky.Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith explores WH Auden's fascination with music and song. He looks at Auden's collaboration with Benjamin Britten on cabaret songs and the musical Paul Bunyan, as well as his libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.
Including interviews with Stephen Spender's widow Lady Natasha Spender, the poet Peter Porter, archive of Stravinsky and commentary from Auden himself.
Starts 2007-04-03 10:30:00, Ends 2007-04-03 11:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 4
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