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Podcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival
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Opening day voxpops 24 March 2012 | We spoke to customers buying tickets on our first day of public sales to see what their hot shows were for Festival 2012. | 24 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shen Wei - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Chinese-born American choreographer Shen Wei is a distinctive voice in contemporary dance. He talks with Jackie McGlone about the unique blend of eastern and western cultures and infl uences at the heart of Re, his exhilarating trilogy. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 3 September 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arditti Quartet - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | The Arditti Quartet enjoys universal acclaim for its interpretations of contemporary classical music. Hilary Finch joins group members Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan, Ralf Ehlers, and Lucas Fels for a conversation about their work. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 31 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Libby Purves talks with writer and director Stephen Earnhart as they discuss his latest work, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, an interdisciplinary theatrical production based on Haruki Murakami's best-selling novel, which combines performance, music, puppetry, dance and film. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 22 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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T’ang Quartet - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Ng Yu-Ying, Ang Chek Meng, Lionel Tan and Leslie Tan talk with Richard Morrison about their work as one of Asia's foremost classical string quartets. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh on 16 August 2011 | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Glass - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Composer Philip Glass has received worldwide recognition for his work in opera, film, dance, theatre and instrumental music. Here he talks with Alex O'Connell about The Qatsi Trilogy, the result of a 20-year collaboration with filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 15 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melvyn Tan - Conversations with Artists, Edinburgh International Festival 2011 | Singapore-born British classical pianist Melvyn Tan has earned a global reputation as a groundbreaking performer and recording artist. He discusses with Richard Morrison his inspirations and artistic vision. Recorded on 15 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wu Hsing-kuo - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Contemporary Legend Theatre's Wu Hsing-kuo talked with Olga Taxidou about adapting western classical plays, re-interpreting the Peking Opera artform, and his performance of King Lear. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 14 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Work of Jonathan Harvey - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music at the University of St Andrews and editor of the book Music and Inspiration by Jonathan Harvey discussed Harvey's triptych of works, Body Mandala, Speakings and ...towards a Pure Land - performed together for the first time as part of Festival 2011. He explored the eastern spiritual philosophies that inspired them and will touched upon the broader context of Harvey's work. Recorded at The Hub, Edinburgh, 14 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bo Skovhus - Conversations with Artists 2011, Edinburgh International Festival | Danish baritone Bo Skovhus has graced the stages of some of the world's great opera houses and is acknowledged as one of the finest Lieder performers of his generation. He talked with Richard Morrison about the various roles he has played and the music of which he is such an acclaimed interpreter. Recorded at the Hub, Edinburgh on Saturday 16 August 2011. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with choreographer Cesc Gelabert | In November 2011, choreographer Cesc Gelabert, one of the founders of celebrated Catalan dance company Gelabert Azzopardi visited Edinburgh to lead a series of workshops at Dance Base. The workshops, for former dancers aged over 50, were warm and spirited and offered those involved an opportunity to broaden and refine their skills as mature professional dancers. As well as getting his thoughts on the workshops, Cesc told us about his love of dance, his love of his football club Barcelona - and how the two are inextricably linked | 11 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edinburgh Festival Chorus - Chorus rehearsal vox pops | We visited the Edinburgh Festival Chorus at their first rehearsal in preparation for the Festival 2012 concerts. Newcomers to the Chorus told us why they had come and their first impressions of singing with the group, while Chorus veterans told us why they returned year after year to sing. eif.co.uk/chorus | 6 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Art of Listening - vox pops | Edinburgh International Festival Programme Development team hosted a series of workshops for local P7 pupils this autumn on different way of hearing and listening to music. Here, the pupils tell us what they thought of the workshops. | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gelabert Residency at Dance Base - Dancer Vox Pops | Gelabert Azzopardi is a leading Spanish company based in Barcelona. Directors Cesc Gelabert and Lydia Azzopardi, plus two company members, came to Edinburgh in November 2011 for a nine-day long residency presented by the Edinburgh International Festival, at Dance Base. They worked with a group of local dancers aged 50 and above with the goal to broaden their existing vocabulary and expand new personal dance identities through movement. The participants, all professional, or ex-pro dancers, give us their thoughts on working with Gelabert. | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Ritual and Memory | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. Recorded on 2 September 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh, French Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola joins Indian writer Swati Chopra, German Anthropologist Dr Rita Langer and Chair Magnus Linklater, Scottish Editor of The Times, in a wide-ranging conversation exploring the poignancy of lost and living traditions, rituals and cultural memory in Vietnam, India and south east Asia. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Transmission | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. Recorded on 16 August 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh, Dina Iordanova, Professor of Film Studies at Peking University and writer, philosopher and broadcaster Dr Richard Holloway to talk about changes and shifts in religious faiths and belief systems in the east and west. Chair of the British Council Sir Vernon Ellis led the discussions | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Contemporary Chinese Thought | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. Recorded on 29 August 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh, Professor Wang Hui from Tsinghua University, Beijing, explores contemporary Chinese thought as the country attempts to balance a changing position within the global market and reconcile this position with traditional cultural values. Professor Natascha Gentz, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Edinburgh, introduced the subject and chaired the floor discussion. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Divided | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. Recorded on 31 August 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh, Tim Supple, director of One Thousand and One Nights, joins Korean culture specialist Dr Michael Shinn, Indian and Bollywood expert Dr Rachel Dwyer and Chair Eugene Downes of Culture Ireland to explore the cultural impact of partition on nations. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Song of the Earth | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. This was recorded on 28 August 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh. To compliment Scottish Ballet's Festival performances of Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth, based on Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, historian Kirsteen McCue and Chinese poet Yang Lian join Scottish Ballet's artistic director Ashley Page to dicuss the cycle's influence and impact. Chaired by Graham Sheffield of the British Council. Presented in association with the Scottish Poetry Library. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continental Shifts - Why China isn’t the new West | Continental Shifts is a series of talks and debates on the themes and ideas in Festival 2011. Recorded on 13 August 2011, at The Hub, Edinburgh, Professor Jonathan Spence explores the relationship between China and the west against the backdrop of China's continued growth and increasing power on the world stage. Spence, one of the world's leading authorities on Chinese history, is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
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