A Nice Library Builder on Radio 3

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A Nice Library Builder on Radio 3

by Ismene BrownFriday, 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.

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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