Colour and Music - 2018 Proms Special
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Tom Service investigates the link between music and colour ahead of Prom 45 and Stravinsky\\u2019s colourful folk-ballet Petrushka.
A piece of music can be 'dark' or 'bright' or we could be singing the 'Blues' - but what does that mean? Professor Jamie Ward - an expert in synaesthesia - is on hand to help. Tom delves into a world of musical colour from Messiaen and Copland, Scriabin and Ravel to David Bowie and Beyonc\\xe9 to discover whether music can ever be colourful.
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