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Opening the Modernist Floodgates
Episode 4 of 5
Donald Macleod and Polish music expert Adrian Thomas focus on the effect on Bacewicz of cultural changes in Poland following Stalin's death in 1953.
Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 had an almost immediate liberalising effect on Polish culture. The first Warsaw Autumn festival that followed opened the modernist floodgates, introducing to Polish audiences a raft of previously proscribed composers. Donald Macleod is joined by Polish music expert Adrian Thomas to explore this period in the life and music of Grazyna Bacewicz.
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Thu 28 May 2015
18:30
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- Thu 28 May 2015 12:00
- Thu 28 May 2015 18:30