Composer Jonathan Dove to write portrait in music to order

Jonathan Dove invites suggestions for subject of pieceWhen Edward Elgar composed his Enigma Variations, he created lasting musical portraits of several of the people he was close to. Picking out themes to describe the anonymous characters of Nimrod or Dorabella, he dedicated it to "my friends pictured within".On Monday the leading British composer Jonathan Dove, acclaimed for operas such as Flight and Tobias and the Angel, will offer BBC Radio 3 listeners the chance to commission a similar shor...

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