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23rd May 2013
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Published: 13 March, 2012 Opera review MISS FORTUNE at the Royal Opera House by Sebastian Taylor WHATEVER the motley crew of opera scribes may say, Judith Weir’s new opera Miss Fortune...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Song and piano music inspired by poetry, painting, dance and love are to be played by pianist Robin Rubenstein (pictured) and singer / actor David Durham...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Not many operas combine great music with a burning kebab van, break-dancing, doing the ironing and taking the washing to a launderette. But that, and a...
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FRIDAY, March 9 THE Stranglers. Roundhouse (Chalk Farm tube), 7pm, sold out HOBBIE Stuart. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 7pm, £12 LEIKA + The Isis + The White Lions. Barfly (Chalk Farm...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Blur headline Hyde Park’s Olympic gig, Noel Gallagher is NME’s Godlike Genius, Pulp are loved by the world, The Stone Roses and The Happy...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Team Me epitomise the best in Scandinavian indie-pop. Album To The Treetops opens with a perfectly epic detailed collage of layered vocals, interwoven...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by ALAN STAFFORD It’s not every day the BBC Symphony Orchestra faces an audience on their feet chanting “we want more”. But on Saturday they were the 80-...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Grime MC Ghetts is one of the biggest names to have been revealed on the line-up for May’s Camden Crawl. Some years on from turning his back on a...
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Published: 8 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Here’s one for Strauss and Mahler fans – Chris Maltman singing about death. The much-acclaimed baritone is singing two pieces by the...
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FRIDAY MARCH 9 Kings Place/London Guitar Festival Hall one: Jose & Francisco Cuenca + Fernando Espi, 7.30pm Hall two: David Gibb & Elly Lucas, 8pm each £9.50 online Piano recital:...
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FRIDAY, March 2 CITIZEN Cope. Koko (Mornington Crescent tube), 6.30pm, £17.50 THE South (ex-Beautiful South). 02 Academy Islington (Angel tube), 6.30pm, £20 SIMPLE Minds. Roundhouse (...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Just over two months to go until the Camden Crawl and we finally have an idea of who’s been signed up. Of course, now I’m getting impatient...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Here’s definitive proof that somewhere in the deepest darkest corners of Birmingham lurks a beating heart of filthy blues, with the name Circus Town...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB We’ve been patiently chalking the days on the wall and, just as it started to turn to powder in our hands, our reward has arrived – the first...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by ALAN STAFFORD It’s easy to despair for the future of pop as celebrity stars manufactured on talentless talent shows roll off the conveyor belt. Indie-rock...
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FRIDAY MARCH 2 Piano recital: Evgeny Kissin, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2, 020 7638 8891, 7.30pm, from £25 Brahms string sextets, Kings Place, 7.30pm, online £9.50 Bill Evans...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Here’s one for the bird-watchers among us. Exciting classical soprano Sophie Bevan is singing some of the many songs inspired by birdsong at The...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR If you’re a fan of John Adams and/or a masochist, then English National Opera’s new production of his opera The Death of Klinghoffer is for...
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Published: 1 March, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Budding opera singer Islington resident Kezia Bienek (pictured) is singing close to home next week when the English Touring Opera opens its brief three-...
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Published: 23 February, 2012 The world-famous Bach Choir will present rarely performed works by Sergei Rachmaninov for a special Leap Day concert. They will combine with young talent from Chetham...
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Published: 23 February, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Do not ask Adam Cohen about his songs, at least not while he’s hungover and still in bed. Adam – the son of the great Leonard Cohen...
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Published: 23 February 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB It should be no surprise that The Civil Wars duo Joy Williams and John Paul White met in Nashville, the home of country blues. It should be even less...
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Published: 23 February, 2012 by ROISIN GADELRAB Barfly’s attracting some big hip-hop stars, names you couldn’t expect to get near in the States. Wu Tang collaborator and former gourmet...
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 Guildhall Jazz Singers, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free Sibelius/Prokofiev: BBC SO/Kirill Karabits, Barbican, 7.30pm, from...
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Published: 23 February, 2012 by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR Singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama are out in force tomorrow evening (Friday). The newly formed Song Guild is singing Wolf’...
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