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John Hardy: Blue letters from Tanganyika

Promotional

CDR
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: [c20']
Tracks: 8
Booklet pages: 0
© 2009 Ffin Records
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of John Hardy: Blue letters from Tanganyika published on 27 May 2009

Listen: Arrival At The Lake (track 2, 0:00-0:42)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn, conductor

John Hardy:

Blue Letters from Tanganyika:

clips:
1 35 second clip: On Safari
2 40 second clip: Arrival At The Lake
3 30 second clip: Travel On The Lake
4 26 second clip: On Safari

full tracks:
5 Arrival At The Lake
6 Travel On The Lake
7 Twilight On The Lake
8 On Safari

Music commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a family concert, and inspired by a series of letters written by the composer's mother as a young woman in the 1950s, during her adventures in Africa where she had been sent to oversee mission schools in a large area of Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

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