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Building Bridges

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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Nov 2009, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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Writer Christie Dickason considers the physical and metaphorical significance of bridges - connecting peoples, cultures and countries, but also underlining differences.

She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of Emily Dickinson and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart.

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Music

Trad. Islamic arr. Katavic: Puhnut ce Behar
Pontanima Choir dir. Josip Katavic
CD: Most Dusa
IV CD tr. 7
Pub. Interreligijska sluzba

R. Murray Schafer – Tapio
Mike Cumberland (Alphorn)
CD: Canadian Composer Portraits
Centrediscs CMCCCD 8902 tr. 1

Trad. Calling the Spirits
Native American Flute Ensemble.
CD: Spirit Wind
ARC EUCD2079 tr. 8
Pub. ARC Music

Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Bobbie Gentry
CD: Ode to Billie Joe
Curb 471 206-2 TR. 1
PUB. Northridge Music Company

Trad. Sevdah
Ruth Waterman (violin & voice)

Trad. Hebrew arr. Dudley Cohen: Yom Seh-le Yisrael
Pontanima Choir dir. Josip Katavic
CD: Most Dusa
IV CD tr. 1
Pub. Interreligijska sluzba

Trad. Hebrew arr. Elliott Levine: Al Ha-Nissim
Pontanima Choir dir. Josip Katavic
CD: Most Dusa
IV CD tr. 2
Pub. Interreligijska sluzba

Mozart - Adagio in E,K.261 for violin & orchestra
Ruth Waterman (violin) & Bosnian orchestra
Private recording provided by soloist

Trad. London Bridge is Falling Down

Readings

Mike Cumberland - Echoes of A Disappearing Planet
Soundscape, The Journal of Acoustic Ecology Volume 5 Number: Fall/Winter 2004
Pub: The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster
LP The Great McGonagall
DJM DJAL 040 tr. 3

Emily Dickinson – Set 5: I Stepped from Plank to Plank
(ms c.1865)

Ruth Waterman - When Swan Lake Comes to Sarajevo
Pub. Canterbury Press

Interview

Interview: Ruth Waterman

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 1 Nov 2009
    06:05
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Sun 1 Nov 2009
    23:30
    BBC Radio 4

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  1. Something Understood

Duration

30 minutes

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