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	Podcast:		The Reith Lectures
	Episode:		An Orchid In the Field of Technology
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:13
	Publish Date:		1987-11-25 03:00:00
	Description:		Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and English composer Alexander Goehr gives his second Reith Lecture from the series 'The Survival of the Symphony'. He examines the effect of recorded sound on our perception of music. In this lecture entitled 'An Orchid in the Land of Technology', Professor Alexander Goehr asks whether a recording devalues the original performance. He explores how recorded performances are changing the way people listen to music.
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