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A double dose of Benjamin Britten
It’s been a satisfying week for feeding the Benjamin Britten obsession. Sunday evening at the Barbican saw an extraordinary concert at the Barbican. Top of the bill was the world premier of Sir Peter...
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Transmission Triple
Salon London awards its Transmission Prize, for the communication of ideas, on February 6th at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, London. Three special editions of its podcast, Pocket Salon, preview the...
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Southbank halts Festival Wing plans
The Southbank Centre has decided to withhold its planning application for the Festival Wing, putting a huge question mark over its £120m plans to redevelop London’s riverside cultural quarter. The move...
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A talent for seduction
Compulsion for seduction: Véronique Gens as Donna Elvira and Mariusz Kwiecie as Don Giovanni. As the Royal Opera House prepares for a live cinema relay of Kasper Holten’s new production of Don...
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Hooked on NMC
It’s becoming an addiction. First I stumbled across Richard Causton’s Twenty-seven Heavens. We were once schoolfriends, so I was both chuffed and impressed to find recordings of his compositions. Then...
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Belarus Free Theatre – The Show Must Go On
The eastern European country, Belarus, is often described as the continent’s last dictatorship. Its president, Alexander Lukashenko, has held on to power since 1994, and while the security services...
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BBC feature: RFH organ relaunched
“It needs to be louder than an entire orchestra”, says William McVicker, the Southbank’s Organ Curator, demonstrating the instrument’s massive, full-throated tones with a passage from Jean Langlais’s...
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BBC feature: ENO premiers new Oedipus opera
“Families come to the fore in this piece”, says composer Julian Anderson. “The family unit is the basic building block in so many societies – that’s what’s so fascinating about it.” Read the full...
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Jason Caffrey’s invitation is awaiting your response
Jason Caffrey would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? Jason Caffrey at Confirm you know Jason You received an invitation to connect. LinkedIn will use your email address to...
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Email hack
Apologies, I think an email hack has sent a malicious email to my address book. It purports to be some kind of whatsapp message. Delete it, it’s malicious. Jason
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