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12.00 am Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

On the Town New York, New York (Adolph Green/John Reardon/Cris Alexander/Bernstein)
Fancy Free Enter Three Sailors; Enter Two Girls (New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)
Fancy Free Galop, Waltz & Danzon (NYP/Bernstein)
On the Town I can cook too; Nightclub Scene (Walker/Comden/Green/ Alexander/Chorus/Bernstein)
On the Town Ain't got no tears left (Cleo Laine/Tilson Thomas)
On the Town Carried Away; Times Square (Comden/Green/Bernstein)
Peter Pan Build my House; The Pirate Song (Henderson/Karloff/Chorus/Bernstein)

10.00 am CD Masters

Jonathan Swain presents a week of programmes featuring Bernstein the performer, as Artist of the Week

To include:

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man (1942) (NYPO/Bernstein)
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: In deepest grief, here sit we weeping
(The Collegiate Choir/NYPO/Bernstein)
Copland: Symphony No.3 (1944-6) (NYPO/Bernstein)

12.00 pm Composer of the Week

Humphrey Burton presents a week of programmes in the company of Jamie Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Barbara Cook, Lauren Bacall, Ruth Mitchell, Patricia Routledge, Sono Osato, Sid Ramin, Richard Wilbur, Dennis Quilley, Seymour Lipkin, Harold Prince and Jerome Robbins

Featuring:

On the Town New York, New York (Adolph Green/John Reardon/Cris Alexander/Bernstein)
Fancy Free Enter Three Sailors; Enter Two Girls (New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)
Fancy Free Galop, Waltz & Danzon (NYPO/Bernstein)
On the Town I can cook too; Nightclub Scene (Walker/Comden/Green/ Alexander/Chorus/Bernstein)
On the Town Ain't got no tears left (Cleo Laine/Tilson Thomas)
On the Town Carried Away; Times Square (Comden/Green/Bernstein)
Peter Pan Build my House; The Pirate Song (Henderson/Karloff/Chorus/Bernstein)

(Repeat of midnight edition)

2.00 pm Afternoon Performance

Tommy Pearson presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Orchestras and BBC Singers in performances of Bernstein's own music and key works that he premiered or championed, including the music of Mahler, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Copland and Britten,including excerpts from the complete cycle of Bernstein's symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

Today's prgramme features the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works from Bernstein's debut concert with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a Mahler symphony.

Wagner: Die Meistersinger - Prelude
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Strauss: Don Quixote, Op.35
Scott Dickinson (viola)
Bruno Weinmeister (cello)
Heinrich Schiff (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No.4
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

4.00 pm Stage & Screen

Tommy Pearson and Edward Seckerson discuss Bernstein's On the Town, Wonderful Town, Trouble in Tahiti and West Side Story as stage works and in their transfers to the small and large screen, and Bernstein's one movie score, for On the Waterfront

7.30 pm Performance on 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Sarah Nicholls (piano)
conducted by Eric Stern

Bernstein: Divertimento (1980)
Adams: The Chairman Dances (1985)
Rosza: Theme, Variations & Finale (1933/43)
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 'The Age of Anxiety' (1949)