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Max Richter: Writing music based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Elizabeth Alker follows composer Max Richter and artist Yulia Mahr as they collaborate in lockdown to create a new work based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Composer Max Richter has created his own genre of classical music. His ground breaking eight-and-a-half-hour concert work SLEEP has been broadcast and performed all over the world, addressing the need to pause and seek a sense of community. Elizabeth Alker now follows Max as he works on one of his most ambitious and profound pieces of music about the human condition. The new piece is based on the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

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