Proms Interval: What makes music D-I-S-C-O?
Flares and big collars at the ready as Tom Service asks: what makes music D-I-S-C-O? He talks to Chic legend Nile Rodgers and finds out how disco made it to the Royal Albert Hall.
Flares and big collars at the ready as Tom Service asks: what makes music D-I-S-C-O? He talks to Chic legend Nile Rodgers 鈥� whose career has spanned from early work with The Honeydrippers to Daft Punk via David Bowie 鈥� and finds out from tonight鈥檚 conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser exactly how disco made it to the Royal Albert Hall.
Why do we call it 'classical' music?
Tom Service poses a very simple question (with a not-so-simple answer).
Six of the world's most extreme voices
From babies to Mongolian throat singers: whose voice is the most extreme of all?
How did the number 12 revolutionise music?
How Schoenberg opened a new cosmos for composers and listeners to explore.
Why are we all addicted to bass?
Bass is everywhere, but why do we enjoy it? Join Tom Service on a journey of discovery.
Watch the animations
Join Tom Service on a musical journey through beginnings, repetition and bass lines.
When does noise become music?
We like to think we can separate 鈥渘oise鈥� from 鈥渕usic鈥�, but is it that simple?
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The Listening Service
An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service
