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scientist and mathematician, President of the Royal Society, M.P.
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2024-04-22 10:01:00
Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer: Lichfield Festival 2024
The Hub at St Mary's - Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival, July 2023 (Photo: Tyler Whiting)The Lichfield Festival returns for ten days of classical, folk, world, jazz, cabaret and popular music, theatre, dance and the written word from 4 to 14 July 2024. The 2024 festival opens with Rachel Podger (violin) and her ensemble Brecon Baroque in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. A 150th anniversary celebration of Gustav Holst includes Egdon Heath from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft (along with Brahms and Elgar's Cello Concerto) and the Carice Singers’ Stargazers programme includes Holst's The Evening Watch. And there will be Holst arrangements from BBC Folk Musician of the Year Will Pound and percussionist Delia Stevens. Pianist Danny Driver plays two recitals, closing the Festival with candle-lit Bach in the Cathedral. Other chamber music highlights are the complete Shostakovich quartets from Brodsky Quartet spread over a single weekend, Oz Clarke and Armonico […]
2024-04-10 06:52:00
Small but mighty: Music at Paxton 2024
Paxton HouseBased at the delightful 18th-century Paxton House in the Borders, Music at Paxton is a chance to hear international, national and local artists in the famous early 19th-century Picture Gallery hung with paintings from the National Gallery of Scotland. This year, Music at Paxton runs from 19 to 28 July 2024, and features a sequence of concerts curated by violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist Cordelia Williams, including a concert at Duns Parish Church preceded by a guided Festival Walk.This year's festival Associate Ensemble, the Consone Quartet will be appearing with an array of guests including composer Gavin Bryars, violist Francesca Gilbert, cellist Alexander Rolton, and mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, with music including the Scottish première of Gavin Bryars’s String Sextet ‘The Bridges of Königsberg’.Violinist Viktoria Mullova makes her festival debut with Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson, whilst tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Jocelyn Freeman present an evening of song and host a […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-27 22:04:28
The storied Sudbury Savoyards’s recent production of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s least-performed works, Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, at the Kirschner Auditorium Theater at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School from February 24 - March 2, 2024, achieved a rousing success. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-03-14 10:00:52
On this day in 1885 W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s The Mikado premiered in London
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