This Cultural Life TV Schedule
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This Cultural Life is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):
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Sun 21
Nicola Benedetti — This Cultural Life
Violinist Nicola Benedetti reveals her most important cultural influences and experiences that have inspired her to become one of the world?s greatest classical musicians. Having taken up the violin at the age of four, Nicola won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at 16. She?s renowned for the passion of her live concerts, her recordings of the great violin concertos, and for her work with contemporary composers including a Grammy-winning collaboration with composer Wynton Marsalis. She?s also deeply involved in educational programmes that use classical music to transform the lives of young people. For This Cultural Life, Nicola Benedetti recalls her North Ayrshire upbringing and how her Italian parents encouraged her musicality from a young age. She remembers first listening to Brahms?s Violin Concerto on the car journey to school, a piece that inspired her to seriously pursue her ambitions, becoming the leader of the National Children?s Orchestra at the age of just eight. She discusses the influence of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, whose school she attended until she was 15, and at whose funeral she performed in 1999. Nicola also talks about her work with the Sistema Scotland project, and her own Benedetti Foundation which promotes musical education. Determined to promote contemporary classical music as well as the traditional repertoire, she discusses her work with Wynton Marsalis and the young British composer Mark Simpson, both of whom have written violin concertos for her.
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Thu 1
Nile Rodgers — This Cultural Life
Composer, producer, guitarist and founding member of Chic Nile Rodgers talks to John Wilson. The musician brings his 1959 Fender Stratocaster guitar to the studio and tells John how the instrument has been the bedrock of almost every record that he worked on, and acquiring the nickname 'The Hitmaker'. Nile also discusses his bohemian upbringing in 1950s New York with his mother and stepfather, who were both drug users
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Fri 2
Sheku Kanneh-Mason — This Cultural Life
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Fri 2
Sheku Kanneh-Mason — This Cultural Life
