Feb
2010
Articles from 8th Feb 2010
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Jazz diary: John Ruddock at Stratford
Feb 08 2010 | Music
John Ruddick spends nearly all his time these days rehearsing and leading the Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra, so rare is the occasion when we can hear him indulging his initial passion: just playing the trumpet. Read
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Little Sister keep it together
Feb 08 2010 | Music
Birmingham group Little Sister talk to Andy Coleman about an obsession with playing spoons. Read
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Ex Cathedra - 40th anniversary at Birmingham Town Hall
Feb 08 2010 | Music
It was a brilliantly simple idea that Ex Cathedra should seal its fortieth anniversary celebrations (“XLent” – geddit?) with works written for gigantic Read
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Daniel Barenboim/ Staatskapelle Berlin Symphony Hall
Feb 08 2010 | Music
We mustn’t quibble. Daniel Barenboim’s innovative series juxtaposing Beethoven’s five piano concertos with Schoenberg may have been destined for London (Paris later this week), but Saturday’s single Birmingham concert was better than nothing. Read
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CBSO/ Alpine Symphony at Symphony Hall
Feb 08 2010 | Music
RICHARD Strauss’s monumental Alpine Symphony was magnificently performed. Read
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Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at Hereford Cathedral
Feb 08 2010 | Music
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a mammoth work putting great demands on performers as it unfolds the momentous events of the Nativity. Read
