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Semyon Bychkov, Steve Reich, Richard Long, how to set up a museum

Arts news with John Wilson, including conductor Semyon Bychkov talking about Shostakovich's 7th Symphony and Steve Reich on how his Clapping Music has become an app.

Tomorrow night Semyon Bychkov conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, the Leningrad, at the BBC Proms. He talks about the significance of a piece that evokes the time of the Leningrad Siege - a period of history that affected Bychkov's own mother.

Steve Reich's 1972 Clapping Music is one of the most significant pieces of recent decades: a Minimalist classic. Now it's become an app, thanks to Andrew Burke, Chief Executive of the London Sinfonietta, to be launched at an event this Saturday at the South Bank in London. He and Steve Reich talk to John.

Richard Long: Time and Space is a new exhibition celebrating the work of the artist at the Arnolfini in Long's home town, Bristol. With new work alongside re-creations of older work, it illuminates his close relationship with place. The art critic Richard Cork reviews for Front Row.

A new museum proposed as a celebration of women in the East End of London has been revealed to have dramatically changed subject matter to the crimes of Jack the Ripper. As some seek to reverse the museum's approval, Front Row asks Alistair Brown, Policy Officer at the Museums Association, what it takes to set up a museum.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Shostakovich’s Leningrad

    Duration: 09:31

  • Richard Long

    Duration: 04:31

  • Steve Reich’s Clapping Music

    Duration: 09:46

  • Museums

    Duration: 04:13

Shostakovich’s Leningrad

Shostakovich’s Leningrad

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad', will be performed by Katia and Marielle Labèque and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 31 July at 7pm as part of Prom 18.

The Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

Richard Long

Richard Long

Richard Long: Time and Space is at Arnolfini in Bristol until 15 November 2015.

Image: Installation view. Photo by Stuart Whipps.

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is available to download via the app store for iPhone and iPad.


Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterJohn Wilson
Interviewed GuestSemyon Bychkov
Interviewed GuestAndrew Burke
Interviewed GuestSteve Reich
Interviewed GuestRichard Cork
Interviewed GuestAlistair Brown

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  • Thu 30 Jul 201519:15

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