[silence] (OT) BBC Radio - The CIA and the Avant Garde

[John Whiting]

The link doesn't work and neither the program nor its participanys show up on a BBC 
search. Can you tell us anything more?

John Whiting

Graham Urquhart wrote:
> Sorry not directly related to Cage but may be of interest.  A BBC radio 
> documentary which features Amy Beal whose book was recommended on the 
> list recently.  The programme is available to listen to at the 
> undernoted link for the next seven days.
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/etlar/(
> 
> 'Tommy Pearson travels to the German city of Darmstadt to help celebrate 
> the 60th anniversary of the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik 
> - one of the most notoriously avant-garde music festivals in the world. 
> But there are rumours that in the late 40s and early 50s, this radical 
> festival, run by leftist composers, was covertly funded by the CIA! With 
> composer and former Darmstadt composition tutor Christopher Fox at his 
> side, Tommy attempts to make sense of the murky worlds of avant-garde 
> music and the cultural Cold War'.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Graham
> 
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