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2024-03-29
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2024-03-07 15:34:04
In brutal words spat like bullets, the rapper’s lyrics embrace being a bad boy who’s made good by being bad
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
The giant puppet from L’Homme Debout’s Mo and The Red Ribbon which will roam the streets of NorwichOne of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich (running for an astonishing 17 days in the merry month of May from Friday 10th to Sunday 26th) offers a cultural package like no other taking in music, drama, literature, circus, outdoor and family events as well as the all-important visual arts. Artists from round the world and across the region will gather in Norwich and, indeed, across the county to present a huge variety of work and events in a programme featuring a host of ‘stories’ providing guided routes through the festival and bringing together shows and events that share common themes. For instance, Lucy McCormick’s Lucy and Friends, an anarchic cry for help, subverts the normal dynamic between audience and performer. Sitting in the Whisper & Shout section of a wide […]
2024-02-28 16:00:26
A rhythm section of leading lights balances rhythmic interplay with the saxophonist’s advanced technique
2024-01-12 10:22:59
Back to my roots: Gavin Higgins on how his new horn concerto reconnects him to trees – and teenage trauma
He abandoned his French horn years ago, so why did the composer decide now was the time to dust the cobwebs off it?I grew up in a forest at the edge of England and Wales; a borderland in the shape of a heart, isolated between two rivers, with its own unique dialect. Local playwright Dennis Potter called the Forest of Dean a “strange and beautiful place”, and JRR Tolkien is said to have found inspiration here for Middle-earth; today it remains drenched in myth and legend, with tales of faeries, witches and ghosts commonplace.But the forest is also a place full of music. I remember the sound of brass bands drifting across the canopy from every direction as they rehearsed in their tiny, purpose-built practice rooms. Female-voice choirs would sing from tree-shrouded churches. As a child I would fall asleep to the noise of foxes and deer, while enormous sound systems […]
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