# Lucy Duran

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Africa Beat - Interview with Dr. Lucy Duran

Armondo Conte interviews SOAS’ very own Lucy Duran. Dr. Duran is an educator, performer, producer, and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster. Lucy discusses her work with Malian musicians, as well as her travels and musical experiences within Lusophone Africa, and her thoughts on the future of Portuguese musi ...

Musical Ecosystems

Kate Molleson is joined by the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja as she releases two new albums of works by Schoenberg and Francisco Coll. She explains why the music education system should encourage young minds, and tells us why vulnerability is vital on the concert stage. As the trustees of Mi ...

Holding onto Musical Traditions

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Ruth Slenczynska, the last living pupil of Rachmaninoff, from her home in Pennsylvania ahead of releasing a brand new solo piano album entitled My Life in Music. She reminisces about her childhood as a prodigy, connecting with her audiences, and performing still in her ...

A Toumani

This is a piece influenced by the Kora playing of the Mali kora player Toumani Diabete. I fist heard his music on a recording called "Kaira" recorded by Lucy Duran ( an ethnomusicologist ) - I had to check that - in 1988. He's made many recordings with other artists - and they are all worth a li ...

Nakibembe Embaire Xylophone Troupe - Uganda 2024

Today, we’re recording on location across the Nile River, in the Kingdom of Busoga—home to the Basoga people, an Eastern Bantu ethnic group. We are with the legendary Nakibembe Embaire Xylophone Group and I will be having a chat with them about the origins, style of play, and conservation of ...

Turning Lemons into Lemonade- Elise McCann & Benjamin Law

We all know that life can give us lemons from time to time, but how to we turn them in lemonade? How do we work through life’s inevitable challenges, especially our mental health challenges. This week’s guests have some pretty fantastic answers and plenty of wisdom. In a world that rushes, they ...

Music producer Sonny Roberts and treating diabetes

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Sonny Roberts’ daughter tells us about how her father created the UK’s first black-owned music studio - this programme contains outdated and offensive language. Music producer and professor e ...

Women's History Month: Hip Deep in Mali - Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako

This program presents a musical portrait of Bamako in the wake of crisis. We explore the precarious lives of griots in Bamako in the early 21st Century. The program draws on the groundbreaking documentary work of Lucy Duran, exploring how hereditary musicians apprentice and grow in various cultu ...