A Conversation With MAXIM VENGEROV
Friday 17th January 6.00pm, Barbican Centre Pre-concert “In Conversation” with Maxim Vengerov… [Read More]
A Conversation With DAME FELCITIY LOTT
Tuesday 25th February 7.00pm, The Forge An evening with Dame Felicity Lott (for the Incorporated Society of Musicians)… [Read More]
A Conversation With VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
Sunday 27th April 2014, London Jewish Cultural Centre In conversation with Vladimir Ashkenazy… [Read More]
A Conversation With MAUREEN LIPMAN
Tuesday 13th May 2014 3.00pm, Newbury Festival at Sydmonton Court In conversation with Maureen Lipman… [Read More]
A Conversation With SIR THOMAS ALLEN
Thursday 15th May 8pm 2014, London Jewish Cultural Centre at Ivy House In conversation with Sir Thomas Allen… [Read More]
Mitsuko Uchida, Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wigmore Hall
Exactly what constitutes “the End of Time” in Olivier Messiaen’s extraordinary Quartet for piano, violin, cello and clarinet? Not surely “the end of days” but rather the end of measured time; music unfettered, music of the spheres,…
Adams “El Nino”, Royal Festival Hall
During the momentous last century – so richly contextualised in the South Bank’s The Rest is Noise festival – there were two points at which factions within the musical establishment sought to step back, take stock, and…
American Psycho, Almeida Theatre
Having enjoyed privileged insight into the making of this musical with my audio podcast featuring composer Duncan Sheik’s original demos (check out Podcasts) and director Rupert Goold’s lively mind, this is not so much a review, more…
Candide, Menier Chocolate Factory
It’s one of theatre’s great ironies that turning Volaire’s bitter satire Candide into a musical proved every bit as taxing and fraught with disaster as the journey to a better life endured by the novella’s principal characters.…
A Conversation With RUPERT GOOLD & DUNCAN SHEIK: ‘American Psycho’ – A New Musical Thriller
In the season of goodwill a new musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’ notorious novel American Psycho might earn itself the subtitle “NOT the Christmas Show” – but when the composer is Duncan Sheik, he of the…
