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Professor Alexander Goehr diagnoses the pressures of contemporary music-making in his third Reith lecture entitled 'Past and present'.

Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and English composer Alexander Goehr gives his third Reith Lecture from his series 'The Survival of the Symphony'. He diagnoses the stifling and possibly fatal pressures of contemporary music-making.

In this lecture entitled 'Past and Present', Alexander Goehr explains that despite the near ubiquity of music, there is a drastic shortage of major new works available in the concert halls. He explores how tradition and innovation, previously necessary in forming new music, do not always create what the public are demanding.

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30 minutes

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  • Wed 2 Dec 1987 09:00

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