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Elizabeth Maconchy 1907 - 1994
Prom Talk
24 July 1983  Radio 3
Elizabeth Maconchy talks to Jeremy Siepmann about

   Audiothe influence of Vaughan Williams and Bartok  1 min 56
   Audiothe destiny and job of composing  2 min 23
   Audiothe emotional and dramatic content of music  1 min 15

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Elizabeth Maconchy
Anglo-Irish composer
"Being a composer is a wonderful life sentence from which there is no escape." Elizabeth Maconchy is considered to be among the finest British composers of music for strings.
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