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This Week's Guest:
Matthew Bourne
Repeated
Friday 19 November |
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Matthew's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's guest this week is the internationally acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne.
He was born in the East End of London in 1960. As a child his great passion was musicals and stage shows - rather than ballet. Despite his later success, he showed no interest in dance until the age of 20 when he enrolled at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London.
He's built his reputation on his unconventional interpretations of classical ballets such as Nutcracker which he reworked from being a cosy Christmas setting to a grim Victorian Orphanage. Swan Lake was similarly changed with the traditional tutu-clad ballerinas being replaced by dozens of bare-chested male dancers with wings, and he transformed Carmen into Car Man about a bisexual male drifter set in a small American town.
He was awarded an OBE in 2001.
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1.The end of Act 4 from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Performer New London Orchestra cond. David Lloyd Jones
Composer Tchaikovsky
Publisher Teldec Classics
CD Title Swan Lake
Track 17
Label TELDEC
Rec No:0630 16451-2
2.Prelude - The Sound of Music
Performer Julie Andrews
Composer Rogers and Hammerstein
Publisher RCA
CD Title The Sound of Music
Track 1
Label RCA
Rec No:ND 90368
3.Night and Day
Performer Ella Fitzgerald
Composer Cole Porter
Publisher Polygram
CD Title Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
Track 11
Label Verve
Rec No: 537 280-2
4. The Cinderella Waltz
Performer The Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev
Composer Prokofiev
Publisher Deutsche Grammophon
CD Title Cinderella
Track Cd1 trk 24
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No: 4458302
5.Lord Peter's Stable Boy
Performer Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
Composer Percy Grainger
Publisher Chandos
CD Title Grainger:Works for Chorus and Orchestra
Track 12
Label Chandos
Rec No:Chan 9721
6.Dinner at Eight
Performer Rufus Wainwright
Composer Rufus Wainwright
CD Title Want One
Track 14
Label Dreamworks
Rec No:4505041
7.London Pride
Performer Noel Coward
Composer Noel Coward
Publisher Conifer Records
CD Title London Pride
Track 18
Label Conifer
Rec No:CDHD216
8.Rhapsody in Blue
Performer Paul Whiteman Jazz Orchestra
Composer George Gershwin
CD Title Orchestral Works: Gershwin
Track 3
Label Past Perfect
Rec No:PPCD 78106
Record: Night and Day
Book: The Kenneth William's diaries
Luxury: Spotted dick with Lyon's Golden syrup
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