Debussy, David Toop and Rhythms of the Heart

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Presented by Tom Service Tom is in Glyndebourne to preview a new production of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande, exploring the opera's themes of dream, reality and our relationship with the past with the director Stefan Herheim and singers Christina Gansch and John Chest. David Toop tells Tom about working with flutes and electronics to reinterpret the musical dreamscape of traditional Japanese Noh theatre, as he performs at Kings Place as part of Noh Reimagined festival. With events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS happening this week, Kate Molleson meets the pianist and mathematics researcher Elaine Chew, whose own experiences with heart arrhythmias have led her to respond to music differently and create new pieces. Tom also talks to Kevin le Gendre about his new book, Don't Stop the Carnival: The story of Black music in Britain, and we take a walk along the River Tyne with the folk musician Martin Green, creator of Aeons, a new sound piece for the Great Exhibition of the North.