WHY MUSIC?
Radio 3 at the Wellcome Collection
FROM 13-15 OCTOBER, Radio 3 and the Wellcome Collection are teaming up for ‘Why Music?’, a weekend of lectures, discussions and performances broadcast from the Wellcome Collection in London. This year, music’s dramatic impact on memory and the mind will be the focus during the weekend, with programmes on how performers memorise scores, Tom Service’s exploration of ‘earworms’ in his Sunday programme, The Listening Service and, in The Early Music Show, a look at how music helped monks remember huge swathes of prayer. Lesley Garrett will choose a selection of music recalling people and places and there will be a performance by Singing with Friends, a community choir for families living with dementia. Igor Levit will play Beethoven’s Diabellis and the Aurora Orchestra will perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 – and much more…