Bernard Haitink, Pierre Schaeffer and a 40,000 year old flute.

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Tom Service talks to the conductor Bernard Haitink as he begins a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, explores the legacy of the American musical polymath Nicolas Slonimsky through letters newly published by his daughter Electra Slonimsky Yourke, and talks to the electroacoustic composer Simon Emmerson and Rob Young of The Wire about the influence of Pierre Schaeffer's classic texts on "concrete music", now translated into English for the first time.