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Music Matters

News, high-profile interviews and other special features from the world of music, covering happenings in the classical, jazz and world genres

  1. Tom Service presents a special programme marking the 150th anniversary of Puccini's birth.
  2. Tom Service and guests look at some of the key cultural events of 2008.
  3. Presented by Tom Service. Including 100 years of Elliott Carter's correspondence.
  4. Nigel Simeone tells the story of classical music activity in Nazi-occupied Paris.
  5. With Tom Service. Including Fiona Shaw on directing her first opera.
  6. Tom Service presents a special programme on the connections between music and the brain.
  7. Petroc Trelawny talks to Alexander Waugh about his book The House of Wittgenstein.
  8. Tom Service discusses the impact of the 2008 US elections on the country's music scene.
  9. Petroc Trelawny talks to leading American composer John Adams.
  10. Tom Service travels to Ireland to explore the part classical music plays in Irish culture.

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