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2024-03-07 09:16:00
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2024, at the Royal Northern College of Music
[…] beginning to think I was Pippa Middleton” and telling the tale of how his mother (also present) and he stayed in a youth hostel when he first auditioned for the Guildhall School – sharing a room with bunk beds and, as both were “under-ambitious in terms of BMI”, it became a test of faith for the party on the underneath. Nicky Spence and his husband, pianist Dylan Perez, also entertained with a rendition of Noel Coward’s Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington, which opened the second half of the night (it all finally ran to 45 minutes behind schedule). l Jasdeep Singh Degun – the first sitar player ever to win an RPS Award – was both winner of the Instrumentalist category and composer/leader in the final item: Veer, with Harkiret Bahra, tabla, and RNCM musicians Leda Mileto, Chris Karwacinski, Beth Willett and Clara Hope Simpson (aka […]
2023-12-19 09:41:00
Nevill Holt refocuses as a multi-arts festival for 2024 under guest festival director James Dacre.
[…] festival director James Dacre, artistic director of Northampton's Royal & Derngate Theatres from 2013-2023. There will be a festival opera, Mozart's The Magic Flute [ironically, or deliberately, the first production from Nevill Holt Opera in 2013] created in association with the Britten Sinfonia. Other musical events include performances from mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Imogen Cooper, pianists Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Benjamin Grosvenor, Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy. Tenor Nicky Spence, soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton bring their celebratory Noel Coward programme, the Britten Sinfonia will perform Max Richter's Vivaldi re-write alongside a world premiere, and Cécile McLorin Salvant and Dan Tepfer will premiere A French Affair as an evening of chansons exploring their shared French heritage. In the wider arts, there will be an Anthony Caro exhibition across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work by Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Conrad Shawcross, Marc Quinn and Sean Henry. Other events include […]
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2023-11-11 18:40:26
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2023-11-10 15:10:25
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Noel Coward And Friends Offers The Perfect Pick-Me-Up For The Times
In urgent need of what the P. G. Wodehouse butler Jeeves called a pick-me-up, I turned to Noel Coward and the frivolity of the Flapper Age.
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