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Zoe Lyons knows her audience; as a few shoutouts confirmed, many of them are long-time fans, and have had lives with similar highs and lows along the way, and she delivers stories about her life that ...
Is Giulio Cesare in Egitto, to give the full title, Handel’s best and shapeliest opera? Glyndebourne’s revival of the legendary David McVicar production last year made it seem so, not least thanks to ...
Huw Watkins’ Concerto for Orchestra, the fourth new work of his to be commissioned and premiered by the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, is another beautifully crafted and highly appealing construction.It’s ...
Over the years Slade in Flame has been hailed as one of the greatest rock movies (albeit rarely seen or screened), up there with That’ll Be The Day or Performance.Like those films, it has grittiness ...
Soul Scene,” by Echoes Limited, is built from elements of the James Brown sound. But it’s put together in such a way that the ...
It is a family affair at Supergrass shows these days. There were plenty of parents and offspring filing onto the Barrowland’s ...
You don't have to be greeting the modern day with a smile unsupported by events in the wider world to have a field day at ...
There used to be an unwritten rule among BBC commissioners about how long an interval had to pass before greenlighting a new ...
It has never been an exact science understanding when something will capture lightning in a bottle and go viral. Even less ...
The earliest EXAUDI commission is Shadow and Echo and Jade, a 14-minute setting of 3rd century Chinese poetry. Notes and ...
Patrick Marber’s powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to ...
In Dublin, a city that has changed more than most in the last 30 years, a young woman, with an English accent that is ...