Desert Island Discs is a talk show radio programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest, called a "castaway" during the program, is asked to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music) a book and a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Since 2006, the show has been presented by Kirsty Young.
O’Connor, student of American fiddle pioneer Benny Thomasson and French jazz violin icon Stephane Grappelli, is a premier American master of violin, integrating jazz improvisation with other virtuoso violin styles into a whole new American approach to strings performance. Courtney Bryan, a New Orleans native, is a prolific and eclectic composer, pianist, and arranger with compositions ranging from solo works to large ensembles in jazz and new music idioms, film scores and more. In April 2015, the world premiere of her composition of SANCTUM for orchestra and recorded sound took place at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of the American Composers Orchestra Blues Symphony & Beyond.
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