Author of The Rite of Spring, Head of Zeus; contributor to Guardian, BBC Radio 3 etc., Artistic Associate Southbank Centre

Joined October 2012
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Viva Verdi! The latest Key Changes looks at the role of #Verdi’s music in Italian unification. In Composer of the Week, Kate Molleson explores the rebellious streak that took him from provincial obscurity to national hero. Each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 1/2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032tb…
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Smetana mans the barricades on the Charles Bridge in Prague during the 1848 uprising. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. Composing a Country. With @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme Producer Megan Jones 1pm or find now @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032t1…
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Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music, Ep 27: A #Birmingham Oratorio with @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme 1pm Sat 10 Oct or listen now @BBCSounds @TheCBSO @BM_AG @bbcwm @birmingham_live @BMusic_Ltd @BhamCityCouncil @BRB @BCMG bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032hb…
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Tonight on In Concert 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 a fantastic concert from @BBCNOW under Johanna Malangre allied to Key Changes, our Essential History of Classical Music. Music on themes of Protest, Power, Revolution & Resistance. Presented by @GillianMoore10 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003215…
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Replying to @bbclaurak
The Green Party conference on Palestine demands that Israel is replaced by a single Palestinian state. This is NOT the policy of Palestinian leaders such as Marwan Barghouti. They support a two-state solution.  This motion smacks of "westerners know best." Greens should not tell Palestinians what to do! The motion also bluntly says all "Zionism is racism". But there are two types of Zionism: 1) a legitimate liberation movement against antisemitic oppression, such as the fight against Tsarist pogroms & the Jewish partisan militias fighting Nazism. 2) an oppressive supremacist movement that ethnically cleanses Palestinians. The motion fails to distinguish between these two different forms of Zionism.  It includes no condemnation of antisemitism & no explicit call to safeguard the human rights of Jewish people in a new Palestine state.  This motion will not do anything to aid the Palestinian cause. Practical aid should be the first priority.
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I can see @KateWilliamsme in pointe shoes more readily than myself - but we talk about ballet today on Key Changes
1832: Ballet En Pointe 🩰 Key Changes: @BBCRadio3's Essential History of Classical Music with @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme 1pm Sat 3 Oct or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Megan Jones #ballet bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00320y…
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It’s Hildegard of Bingen’s feast day. The perfect excuse to listen to the first episode of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music in which @GillianMoore10 & historian @MichaelWoodMV tell her story. And a proposed Playmobil figure… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tdb…
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The arrival of the dance that even Lord Byron thought morally suspect…@GillianMoore10 & @simon_schama take to the floor for the #waltz. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music: A Viennese Whirl 1pm Sat 29 Aug or listen now @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030lc…
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This was a special joy to make with @simon_schama . Remembering our own Broadwood upright in our 60s council flat and fancying myself to be Jane Fairfax.
Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music. Episode 21. 1808: “Yes, we will have a pianoforte.” With @GillianMoore10 & @simon_schama 1pm @BBCRadio3 or listen @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003097… @austen_uk @JaneAustenHouse @JaneAustenBath
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When Madame la Guillotine beckons, two composers must use their hands to save their heads. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with @GillianMoore10 & @simon_schama 1794: Les enfants de la patrie 1pm Sat or listen now @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ztd…
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Alongside the latest ep of Key Changes which looks at The Marriage of Figaro, Kate Molleson tells Mozart’s story in Composer of the Week through five relationships that shaped his life & music. Today, his father Leopold. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Megan Jones bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zts…
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Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with @GillianMoore10 & @simon_schama Ep 18 The Figaro Revolution 1pm Sat 1 Aug or find whole series @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zcy…
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Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah hits Dublin in Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with @GillianMoore10 & @sixteenthCgirl 1pm Sat 18 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #classicalmusic #history bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy1…
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It’s 1727 & the Season of the Violin 🎻 on this week’s Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. Violinist @JoshuaBellMusic on what it’s like to play a Strad. With @GillianMoore10 & @sixteenthCgirl Producer Zerlina Vulliamy. Listen now bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ynl…
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Pitch Imperfect: @bbcradio3’s Essential History of Classical Music reaches the age of #JSBach! Key Changes with @GillianMoore10 & @sixteenthCgirl 1pm Sat 5 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y5w…
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It was HOT!!
Even a heatwave can’t stop Hildegard of Bingen. Or @BBCRadio3 Key Changes presenters @GillianMoore10 & @MichaelWoodMV who discussed 5 centuries of music, from plainchant to Tallis, at wonderful @ChalkeFestival yesterday. Catch up with whole series so far bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tdb…
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Who doesn't love Henry?
Following our exploration of music in Restoration Britain in the latest ep of Key Changes, Composer of the Week focuses on Henry #Purcell. @DonaldMacleod01 charts his extraordinary, all-too-short career 4pm @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds Producer Sam Phillips bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x7…
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Louis XIV of France makes his first appearance as the Sun King… in a 12 hour ballet. Our essential history of classical music, Key Changes, explores the blossoming of this new art form during his reign. 1pm Sat 13 Jun @BBCRadio3 or listen now @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xdw…
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