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2024-02-26 05:00:16
The ex-boss of Classic FM is rebooting the BBC’s venerable home of classical music, with new shows and presenters – including a special slot for ‘perfect fit’ Jools HollandThe office of the controller of Radio 3, in Old Broadcasting House in London, has one solitary wood-panelled wall, a remnant of a more stately era of the BBC, before the glassy, shimmering heights of New Broadcasting House rose up to overshadow its 1930s predecessor. The current incumbent is Sam Jackson. He is, perhaps, the least suited-and-booted of any of his forerunners – he is wearing jeans, sneakers and a printed blue shirt straight out of the wardrobe of
2024-02-25 05:00:38
His track for the 1973 film was unusually structured, including a section written by Linda McCartney, and gave rise to a memorable cover version
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2024-02-16 18:28:30
Royal Opera House, LondonImpressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoireBallet is a heritage art form that craves renewal. Companies often seek a galvanising jolt from artists in other dance styles, but the Royal Ballet’s festival gives classically trained makers a space to spread their wings, with length, large ensembles and strong design. The evening of new works results in confident main stage debuts for two experienced women based in New York and two younger men working in the UK.The only choreographer drawn from the Royal Ballet’s ranks is Joshua Junker. Never Known opens with a twitching, angular pack of dancers staring up at a high, hazy light (Zeynep Kepekli’s gloriously responsive lighting is key to all four ballets). Junker’s movement is often deliberate, close to the floor. He stretches his cast, quite literally: spines slink backwards, one dancer drapes over another’s […]
2024-01-31 07:58:00
A crate of flowers, which experts assure me are very choice and of admirable rarity: Ensemble Hesperi's crowdfunder for their disc themed on Telemann's love of gardening
Peterstrasse in Hamburg (reconstructed in the 1960s) and the location for Telemann's housePhoto via the Telemann MuseumIn 1754, Handel wrote a letter to Telemann (who since 1721 had been music director in Hamburg). In it Handel talks about sending Telemann 'a crate of flowers, which experts assure me are very choice and of admirable rarity', and earlier in the letter he makes reference to Telemann's passion for exotic flowers.It is a chatty, genial letter, and worth bearing in mind that the two composers could hardly have met for around 40 years, and it seems that a strong BOND had been formed between the two back in their student days in Leipzig. And whilst music director of Hamburg opera, Telemann would mount productions of Handel's operas.The exotic flowers never arrived, because the sea captain who acted as courier heard a (false) rumour that Telemann was dead. When Handel ascertained that Telemann […]
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