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2022-05-23 06:17:31
Anglais - Nothing to Frighten the Horses in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion of 1913. Set in Edwardian London, it sees phonetician Professor Henry Higgins make a bet with one Colonel Pickering that he cannot pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as a lady. He intends to do so by giving her intensive speech lessons with the test being whether she can fool everyone at an Embassy Ball. She succeeds when a rival phonetician insists she must be an Hungarian princess, but Higgins takes all the credit for the triumph as if none of it was down to Eliza herself. Through this and other actions, he shows himself to be cynical, thoughtless and supposedly impervious to women’s charms, but still it becomes obvious that he does have feelings for her. Eliza also develops some for him, which makes it even harder for her when […]
2022-05-17 07:58:15
The TRUMPETS shall sound! FANFARE 250 for the Fine City of Norwich
[…] sorcerer) performed alongside members of his equally amazing quintet comprising André Marques (piano, flute, percussion), Jota P (saxophones, flutes), Fábio Pascoal, Hermeto’s son (percussion), Itiberê Zwarg (electric bass, percussion) and Ajurinã Zwarg (drums, percussion) while the National Youth Jazz Orchestra players (many recruited from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Guildhall School of Music and Dance) comprised a formidable bunch of richly-talented performers, namely, George Garford, Asha Parkinson (alto saxophones); Emma Rawicz-Szczerbo, Joe Pickering (tenor saxophones); Luke Chakrabarti (baritone saxophone); Rianna Henriques (flute); Ewan Parkin, Gareth Howell, Ruby Barber, Dan Coulthurst, Ucheena Cohen-Shah (trumpets); Joel Knee, Felix Fardell, Connor Martin, Jessica Anderson (trombones); Sam Taber (bass trombone); Robyn Blair (French horn); Harrison Dolphin (guitar); Andrew Chen (piano); Fergus Quill (bass); Dan Kimberley (percussion) and Matt Holmes (drums). A self-taught musician, Hermeto (a jazz superstar extraordinaire!) honed his ear for unusual tones in his grandfather’s blacksmith workshop hearing music […]
2022-05-09 06:49:45
The Seven Works of Mercy: a new song cycle inspired by the medieval murals in Pickering church
Children at one of the Easter workshops for Joseph Howard's Seven Works of Mercy A new partnership between the Ryedale Festival and the Richard Shephard Music Foundation is involving school children and community groups in a new song cycle inspired by the murals of Pickering Church. The medieval murals depicting The Seven Works of Mercy are relatively unusual in that all seven survive. The Seven Works of Mercy are a less well-known counterpart to the Seven Deadly Sins: feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned, visiting the sick and burying the dead. Composer Joseph Howard has written a new song cycle, for solo voice and piano, with contributions being made by around 40 children from local primary schools, an adult community-based choir, and the church’s bell ringing society. The words by Emma Howard explore what these seven acts might mean in […]
2022-04-05 08:54:01
Six world premieres, celebrating RVW and Abba, a pop-up Handel opera: Ryedale Festival returns with 52 concerts
[…] carers – and anyone else who would like to attend. And bassoonist Ashby Mayes collaborates with Krystal Tunnicliffe in an enterprising programme performed at one of the festival’s many Coffee Concerts. A new partnership with the Richard Shephard Foundation is working in primary schools to is transform the festival’s engagement with children across Yorkshire and supports Seven Mercies, a new Community Song Cycle by Joseph Howard and Emma Harding, inspired by the famous murals of Pickering Church. A celebration of local heritage and talent, about countering difficult times through small acts of kindness, Seven Mercies will be performed on 21 May at the Church of St Peter and St Paul Pickering, and is one of two major elements of the festival taking place outside the main festival period in July. In October, the Hallé Orchestra and Chorus, Natalya Romaniw, Alice Coote, Thomas Atkins and James Platt with conductor Sir Mark […]
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