Music
Friday Night Classics: Abba Symphonic Spectacular – Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: Stephen Bell Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The 1970s: the decade that taste forgot as we are reminded by Conductor Stephen…
Read More »Navarra String Quartet – The Venue, Leeds
Musicians: Navarra String Quartet, David Adams (viola), Alice Neary (cello) Reviewer: Ron Simpson This excellent concert by the Navarra String…
Read More »Battleship Potemkin – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Director: Sergei Eisenstein (1925) Music: Jan Bang, Matt Calvert Reviewer: Ron Simpson Strictly speaking, the appropriate film by Sergei Eisenstein…
Read More »Jason Manford: A Different Stage – The Lowry, Salford
Reviewer: Mel Duncan ’You’ll be out of here by 10 o’clock, eh – always good to know’ As a stand-up…
Read More »Uri Caine – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Reviewer: Ron Simpson An amiably rumpled man of about 60 strolls casually onto the Howard Assembly Room stage, sits down…
Read More »Friday Night Classics: Star Wars – Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: Michael Seal Reviewer: Selwyn Knight One can’t help wondering if John Williams realised how big the Star Wars behemoth…
Read More »Nothing like the Sun – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Performers: The Gavin Bryars Ensemble Reviewer: Ron Simpson Nothing like the Sun was commissioned by Opera North and the Royal…
Read More »Keith Jack: Movie Nights – Wild Cabaret, Glasgow
Reviewer: Lauren Humphreys Astonishingly, it’s a decade since Dalkeith native Keith Jack was runner up in the BBC’s search for…
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