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2024-03-01 18:11:02
The unlikely pairing of Imogen Holst and Benjamin Britten is the focus of this new RSC drama in Stratford-upon-Avon
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
Caricature of Stanford by Spy in Vanity Fair, from 1905, three years after the Clarinet ConcertoThe seventeenth English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from Friday 24 May until Monday 27 May 2024. The festival's opening concert features Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme which includes Stanford's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, Doreen Carwithen's Cotswold Suite, Holst's early Cotswold Symphony and the premiere of a new suite from the music RVW wrote for performances of Shakespeare's Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists […]
2023-10-04 08:32:00
Haunted by the women he mistreated, Charles Dickens' carefully managed image as a family man starts to unravel: Clare Norburn & The Telling's latest concert play, What the Dickens!
[…] to maintain and force him to face up to his past, present and future. Can Dickens learn from the ghosts, repent and be saved - as Scrooge was saved?The drama is complemented by live musicians and musician/actors who perform colourful Victorian popular songs and street music, haunting carols and lively folk dances, arranged by acclaimed music theatre composer Steve Edis.The Telling is performing What the Dickens! on a short tour this month, Hove (11/10/2023), Ulverston (12/10/2023), Stratford-upon-Avon (13/10/2023), Muswell Hill (14/10/2023) and Liverpool (15/10/2023), with a longer run planned for next year.Full details from The Telling's website.
2023-09-11 12:16:38
SCRUTINY | Stratford’s Grand Magic Does Justice To De Filippo’s Unique Vision
Grand Magic: a play by a virtually unknown Italian about a magician — not exactly compelling stuff. I, however, was absolutely thrilled about the playbill.
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