July 21-27: Including The Valkyrie and author Jonathan Haidt

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21st July, 2012

SUNDAY JULY 22 Composer of the Week (RNZ Concert, 9.00am today and weekdays and 7.00pm Monday). RNZ Concert focuses on George Crumb (b1929), the American composer renowned as an explorer of unusual timbres and non-traditional vocal and instrumental techniques – for example, a seagull effect for the cello, and using a mallet to play the strings of a contrabass. His American Songbook series began as a single book of songs for his daughter, Ann, a Broadway actor and singer, but has become a seven-instalment series for female voice, percussion quartet and amplified piano ...

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