01/11/2008
Tom Service examines the possible impact of 2008's presidential elections on the US music scene, and John Tilbury talks about his new biography of Cornelius Cardew.
Tom Service is joined by three leading figures from the American music scene to assess the possible impact of 2008's presidential elections on musical life in the US.
Plus author John Tilbury talking about his controversial biography of composer Cornelius Cardew, and a conversation with Leon Fleisher, hailed as one of the great pianists of the 1950s and 60s and who was forced into early retirement by repetitive strain injury.
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