Blue Planet Live!
began life as an event at the Royal Festival
Hall with Sir David Attenborough and conducted
by award-winning composer George Fenton. As
a result of its popularity, Blue Planet Live!
formed part of the 2002 Prom in Hyde Park,
and an international show was developed, playing
three sell-out dates in Hong Kong. Shows at
the Hollywood Bowl and in Copenhagen and Berlin
are planned. Other successful music events
included sell-out [UK] Fame Academy Concert
Tour.
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Recording activity
in world music has developed this year. Five
world music CDs were released on the Late
Junction imprint, one of which, Manecas Costa’s
Paraiso di Gumbe, was the first record ever
to be produced in Guinea-Bissau and was described
as a ‘landmark album’ by the influential
Songlines magazine.
Radio International markets BBC radio broadcasts
to more than one hundred territories, including
Radio 1 programmes such as Pete Tong’s
Essential Selection into North America. |
