Michael Berkeley on new oratorio Or Shall We Die?
- Title
- Michael Berkeley on new oratorio Or Shall We Die?
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 6 Feb 1983
- Year of production
- 1983
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- Duration
- 00:02:52
- Description
- Interview with composer Michael Berkeley, son of Sir Lennox Berkeley, on his new oratorio on the nuclear weapon threat Or Shall We Die?, with libretto by Ian McEwan, which premieres at The Royal Festival Hall this evening and has as its central theme a mother finding her daughter burnt at Hiroshima. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Michael Berkeley
- Keywords
- Nuclear weapons; Atomic bomb victims; Hiroshima; Classical music; Composers; Michael Berkeley; Lennox Berkeley; Or Shall We Die?; Ian McEwan
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