I do love The Week! The perfect combination of news, illuminating comment (not just from our little sceptered isle but from around the world), reviews – and humour. Not always as biting or as potentially offensive as Charlie Hebdo, but none the less telling. For example, from …
Music
Another Arcola rave!
Sorry all - another Arcola rave.... More excellent music from talented young musicians at their delightfully named Grimeborn Festival. This time two baroque operas, Handel's Acis and Galatea (complete with evil, but sad, giant) and Monteverdi's somewhat amoral Coronation of …
Carousel at the Arcola – a ‘must see’; Porgy & Bess at Regent’s Park Open air – maybe not…
Do you live in North(ish) London? Do you like classic America musicals? If so, get yourself to the Arcola theatre in Dalston for Carousel. It is on until Saturday and, amazingly, there are still tickets available. You will not regret it. The Arcola is one of the network of …
Grimes on the Beach
For those who do not already know, this year is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Britten lived for most of his life near Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, where, in 1948, he started a music …