# Thea Musgrave

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Anniversary Special: Composers in Conversation - Part 1

Donald Macleod celebrates the programme’s 80th anniversary with highlights from 10 memorable interviews Composer of the Week is one of the longest-running strands on the BBC, first heard on the airwaves during the Second World War on the 2nd of August 1943. The first to be featured was Mozart – and…

Musgrave's Postcard

Synopsis On today’s date in 2012, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC’s Scottish Symphony, under the direction of Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles, gave the world premiere of a new orchestral piece by Scottish composer Thea Musgrave. You might be forgiven for asking, “Were any bagpipes i…

E178. A Life in Music (Told with a Sparkle)

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer and a delight. This year, she and the music world have marked her 90th birthday. Jay sat down with her in her home in New York to talk things over. They talk about her life and her music – and other people’s music. Her husband, the conductor Peter Mark,…

Thea Musgrave

In 1969, Peter Darrell choreographed Beauty and the Beast for Scottish Theatre Ballet. Here Thea Musgrave discusses with Stephen Johnson the challenges and idiosyncrasies she found when creating the music. She was amused to discover that she wasn’t the first composer to have to succumb to balletic …

Sound Perimeter: Notes in the Snow

Today's Sound Perimeter steps into winter through three very different musical moods. We began with Thea Musgrave’s "A Winter’s Morning", a quiet, atmospheric setting of a Robert Burns poem that captures the sting of cold air and the stillness of a snowy dawn. Then we moved into Tchaikovsky’s magic…

National Youth Choir of Scotland and memories of Berty Rice

Morven McIntyre introduces The National Youth Choir of Scotland with director Christopher Bell while Eamonn, Sammy and Robert remember Berty Rice. Music by James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave and Elizabeth Poston. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/choral-chihuahua. Hosted on Acast. See acas…

How To Keep Going Forward

What does it take to be a composer? Why shouldn’t you worry about the past? How does a composer come to terms with an ever-changing musical landscape?  In this week’s episode, Sir John Tusa speaks to composer, Thea Musgrave. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How To Keep Going Forward

What does it take to be a composer? Why shouldn’t you worry about the past? How does a composer come to terms with an ever-changing musical landscape?  In this week’s episode, Sir John Tusa speaks to composer, Thea Musgrave. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Two Harriets in Thea Musgrave’s Harriet, The Woman Called Moses - Isabel Milbourn

In this week’s episode, Isabel Milbourn examines Thea Musgrave’s opera Harriet, The Woman Called Moses: a story of Harriet Tubman that delves into both her heroic actions and her personal life, differentiated through musical motives and interactions between Harriet and the opera chorus. This episod…

Power and Captivity in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots - Zachary Simonds

In this week's episode, Zachary Simonds uses tools developed by Robert Hatten to analyze Mary, Queen of Scots by Thea Musgrave, focusing on the melodically ascending octave and its use as a complex narrative device throughout the opera. This episode was produced by Jose Garza along with Team Lead M…