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A Nice Library Builder on Radio 3
A Nice Library Builder on Radio 3
Friday, 04 February 2011
Gustave Doré's engraving of Juliet's seeming deathbed
David Nice, one of our Arts Deskers, is in the exalted seat of Radio 3’s Building a Library tomorrow morning filtering recordings of Berlioz’s “dramatic symphony” Roméo et Juliette.
David Nice, one of our Arts Deskers, is in the exalted seat of Radio 3’s Building a Library tomorrow morning filtering recordings of Berlioz’s “dramatic symphony” Roméo et Juliette.
Building a Library has had to fend off attacks that it is too elitist in some of its choices and should return to mainstream library fare
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