Happy Squad is an optimistic pioneer youth song by by Sergey Mikhalkov, a composer who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country’s national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years.
“If the song is sang everywhere that means that it makes life more easy so song is necessery…”
A pre-revolutionary patriotic Russian marching song premiered in Tambov in 1912 and was subsequently released as a single. Slavyanka means "Slavic woman".
British music old and new falls under the Music Matters spotlight today. A new book edited by Lewis Foreman reconsiders the composer John Ireland, 50 years after his death. We take a look at one of the new pieces that forms part of New Music 20x12, a work by Anna Meredith for the National Youth Orchestra, using only their bodies and mouths in beat-boxing and body percussion to create a unique sonic tapestry. And Tom talks to the composer Alexander Goehr as the BBC Symphony Orchestra prepares to give the World Premiere of a new work, When Adam Fell.
Today’s chamber music can include electronics, electric guitars and bass, and other sounds borrowed from pop music. It’s not just string quartets and wind quintets anymore. On this New Sounds, we sample some electroacoustic chamber music from the likes of Bing & Ruth and Build. Plus, music from English composer Andrew Poppy and his amplified orchestra. And more.
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