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What makes Composition: Wales so special?
Gavin Higgins, guides participants from their first workshop to the final performance.
  1. What makes Composition: Wales so special?
    03:42
    What makes Composition: Wales so special?
  2. BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
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    BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
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  3. Thinking about applying for Composition: Wales 2027?
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    Thinking about applying for Composition: Wales 2027?

    Composition: Wales

  4. Tadaaki Otaka
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    Tadaaki Otaka
  5. BBC NOW and Joseph Swensen perform Four Movements for Orchestra by Nielsen orchestrated by Joseph Swensen
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    BBC NOW and Joseph Swensen perform Four Movements for Orchestra by Nielsen orchestrated by Joseph Swensen
  6. BBC NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said
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    BBC NOW and Mark Lewis Jones perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said
  7. BBC NOW perform Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments
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    BBC NOW perform Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  8. What happens when emerging composers get the chance to work with a symphony orchestra?
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    What happens when emerging composers get the chance to work with a symphony orchestra?
  9. Dessa – Expectations of a Cardiff audience
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    Dessa – Expectations of a Cardiff audience
  10. BBC NOW - The Nutcracker
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    BBC NOW - The Nutcracker
  11. The journey to the orchestra is never the same
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    The journey to the orchestra is never the same
  12. Spotlight On: Adrian Partington
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    Spotlight On: Adrian Partington
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