VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
LISTENING TO TCHAIKOVSKY: Béla Hartmann uses his knowledge of Eastern Europe to argue against the banning of all Russian culture following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Chinese composer Zhu Jian Er was born in Tianjin on 18 October 1922 into a family of flour millers, and grew up in Shanghai.
He began to compose in 1940 and studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory. Later he was a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory.
His music, written for both Western and Chinese instruments, has been heard around the world. His 1950 revolutionary work Days of Emancipation is well-known in the West due to a recording, and his Silk Road Reverie was commissioned in 2000 by Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.
Zhu Jian Er died in Shanghai on 15 August 2017, aged ninety-four.
Echoes of Oblivion by Robert McCarney - A spot of circumnavigation on a Sunday afternoon