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Music and Memory: Jonathan Dove in Conversation with Kate Kennedy

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
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Award-winning composer Jonathan Dove talks to Dr Kate Kennedy about the relationship of his music to war and remembrance.
Winner of the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for classical music, Jonathan Dove has written works commemorating armed conflict (In Damascus and For An Unknown Soldier) and works invoking collective memory more broadly, as in his TV opera When She Died..., a reflection on the death of Princess Diana.

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Episode Information

Series
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
People
Jonathan Dove
Kate Kennedy
Keywords
war
post-war
remembrance
memory
music
opera
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 21/05/2018
Duration: 01:05:22

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