Podcast features Simon Armitage and Gavin Bryars on words and music
THE latest in a series of podcasts from Opera North and the University of Leeds finds two of Yorkshire’s most acclaimed artists, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Gavin Bryars, in expansive conversation about their respective art forms, and what happens when they are brought together. Armitage, who is Poetry Professor at the University of Leeds, charts his lifelong love of music, from performances at his local village hall in his childhood, through a “rock star fantasist” period, to a current commission, a new translation of the Ravel opera L’enfant et les sortilèges for ...
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