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Proms Extra: Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark - 31 August 15

Proms Extra: Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark - 31 August 15

FromArts & Ideas


Proms Extra: Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark - 31 August 15

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The American novelist Willa Cather's 'The Song of the Lark' was first published a hundred years ago in 1915. Her biographer Dame Hermione Lee talks to New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon about Cather's story of a young girl who leaves her home town in Colorado to pursue a career as an opera singer. The reader is Laurel Lefkow. Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.
Released:
Aug 31, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

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