Episode 4 - Improvising at the movies with Darius Battiwalla - The challenge of rebuilding Sheff...

In this episode we hear Darius Battiwalla improvising to a 1920 silent horror film called 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Sitting at the console of the 1972 Hradetzky organ at the Royal northern College of Music, Darius demonstrates some of the musical techniques he uses when improvising to silent films.
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Tom Daggett, Director of Music at Sheffield Cathedral, talks about the work he's doing to rebuild the cathedral's choir.
www.sheffieldcathedral.org/ca...
Blind organist and composer, David Aprahamian Liddle, explains the process of learning music through braille, and shares some amusing anecdotes of his encounters with Jean Langlais, Olivier Messiaen, André Marchal and Madame Duruflé.
davidliddle.org/biography.htm
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