The Music of the Ancient Armenian Instrument

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"I have this band of extraordinary musicians like Tina Guo and Guthrie Gavin and Pedro Yistat," he says. "The way she plays, I mean that's not how you're supposed to play a cello and that's all I love about it." For Dini and myself, it was teenagers reading this book and we were listening to Pink Floyd - so the idea of some weird rock opera wasn't so far removed from our thoughts'

The movie Dune was released on October 21. It's the most recent adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel from 1965. The film was directed by Denis Villeneuve, and the score was written by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer has scored over 200 films, been nominated for Oscars eleven times. He and Denis Villeneuve first worked together on the film Blade Runner 2049. Dune tells the story of the Atreides family as they relocate from their home world to the desert planet Arrakis. When Hans Zimmer first started working on the music, he made what he calls a "sketchbook" – creating motifs and themes that might occur in the film. And in this episode, he takes us through the first sketch he did for Dune. It’s called "Paul's Dream."

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