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By Richard Langham Smith (The Open University)

13 March 2008

Listen to Richard Langham Smith, Head of the Music Department at The Open University, talk about Allegri's 'Miserere', Bach's 'Komm, Jesu, Komm' and the 'Agnus...  Read more : Listen to the music

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By Richard Langham Smith (The Open University)

13 March 2008

Richard Langham Smith muses on the interplay between sacred music and secular culture.  Read more : Sacred music in a secular world

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By Richard Langham Smith (The Open University)

07 May 2006

Richard Langham-Smith of The Open University asked if anyone had caught 2006 Reith Lecturer Daniel Barenboim on his related visit to Sue Lawley's music-and-memory programme.  Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

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By Richard Langham Smith (The Open University)

05 April 2006

How does music make sense of our world? Richard Langham Smith discusses Daniel Barenboim's 2006 Reith Lectures  Read more : Points for debate

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Smith, Richard Langham (2007). ‘Taming two Spanish Women: reflections on editing Opera.’. In: Kelly, Barbara and Murphy, Kerry eds. Berlioz and Debussy: sources, contexts, legacies. (Essays in honour of François Lesure). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 83–102.

Smith, Richard Langham (2006). French operatic spectacle in the twentieth century. In: Smith, Richard Langham and Potter, Caroline eds. French music since Berlioz. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 117–159.

Smith, Richard Langham and Potter, Caroline eds. (2006). French Music since Berlioz. UK: Ashgate.

Smith, Richard Langham (2006). Elsewhere and erstwhile. Musical Times, 147(1896), pp. 93–101.

Smith, Richard Langham (2004). Quelques aspects du langage musical d'Alfred Bruneau. In: Branger, Jean-Christophe and Ramaut, Alban eds. Le naturalisme sur la scène lyrique. Saint-Etienne, France: Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, pp. 80–93.

Smith, Richard (2003). An edition with preface of Debussy's Rodrigue et Chimène. Éditions Durand, Paris, France.

Smith, Richard Langham (2002). Francis Poulenc outre-manche : séjours, concerts, réception. In: Ramaut, Albert ed. Francis Poulenc et la voix: Texte et contexte: actes du colloque tenu les 19, 20 et 21 Avril 2001 au Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Étienne (France). Musicologie. Saint-Étienne/Lyon, France: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne/Symétrie, pp. 11–21.

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Points for debate

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06 Aug 2011

I Play Music Rock View Band ? Foyle view Special School I Play Fender Guitar in Derry my Exam ou university Read more : Points for debate

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by akfarrar

19 May 2006

Isn't the function of DID to explore the associations people make with the music rather than the music itself? If you agree to go on the programme, what "instructions for selection" are you... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

17 May 2006

I just want to know what the selction procedure is. They struck lucky with Ruby Wax, but generally, the smell of arts societies and Roedean, wax polish, cummerbunds and taffeta is never very far away... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

16 May 2006

Which is why minidisks are so great. ... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

16 May 2006

Are you really called Dick! And thank god you didn't wear sox. To do otherwise would have let the side down. The cool side. Re. DID. Could someone with influence and learning suggest to the BBC they... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

15 May 2006

Actually this is a vital point, not only to the particular broadcast of DID but also of broadcasting in general. And it relates to a point Barenboim made which I thought was thought-provoking but... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

15 May 2006

...and why did the programme makers cut short Edwin Fischer's playing of C sharp major Prelude Bk2 (Bach) with only 5 or 6 bars to go to the end of the Prelude? This is about 10-15 seconds more music. Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

14 May 2006

I thought Sue Lawley did a great job 'holding the ring' in the lectures. It was slightly artificial, with most questions planted and the response planned, I agree. A more spontaneous discussion would... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

14 May 2006

Hi Perdido Well actually I do have a tank top. I used to wear it at university parties where everyone took each other off: I had a sort of patterned one which early-music people used to wear, so I... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Comment posted by Unknown

13 May 2006

Wireless! You'll be saying you wear tank tops next!!!! As for DID, like the acronym, I find Sue Lawley totally lacking in finesse. She has no ability to really empathise with her interviewee. Some of... Read more : Debate: Barenboim on Desert Island Discs

Biography

Read Richard Langham Smith’s biography.

Richard Langham Smith has worked as an arts tutor for The Open University since the early 1970s. He’s also had a career as a freelance musician, broadcaster and writer, and has held university posts at Lancaster, City and Exeter.

Richard’s written on French Music, particularly Debussy. He’s broadcast on BBC Radios 2,3 and 4 as well as in France and Australia and in 2004 was appointed visiting Professor of Music at Gresham College in London. In 1993 he was admitted to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the rank of Chevalier by the French Government, in recognition of his services to French Music. In 2005 he was appointed Arnold Kettle Distinguished Scholar at the OU and is currently Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.

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