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2010
Articles from 30th Jul 2010
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Sounds so fresh from the National Youth Orchestra
Jul 30 2010 | Music
Christopher Morley meets the National Youth Orchestra as it takes up residence at the University of Birmingham. Read
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DJ Norman Jay brings festival sunshine to The Big Chill
Jul 30 2010 | Music
DJ Norman Jay is Mr Big Chill - he’s first on the teamsheet when organisers start creating the line-up for the following year’s event. Read
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Review: Peter Donohoe at the Adrian Boult Hall
Jul 30 2010 | Music
There is nothing effete about Chopin’s Four Ballades and they suited Donohoe’s sinewy unsentimental approach. Read
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Big Chill festival takes the holistic approach
Jul 30 2010 | Music
Jon Perks meets the organisers behind the country’s coolest music festival, The Big Chill. Read
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Review: Nicholas Mulroy at Tardebigge Church
Jul 30 2010 | Music
Tardebigge’s “Celebrating English Song” summer series, now in its seventh year, has already become an annual fixture approaching the likes of Aldeburgh and Presteigne, with performers and composers returning to greet old friends – and long may that continue. Read
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Review: Gemini at Leasowes Bank Farm, Ratlinghope
Jul 30 2010 | Music
Nestling atop one of Shropshire’s remoter “blue remember’d hills”, Leasowes Bank Farm has been home to a refreshingly eclectic festival (jazz, folk, classical) for the past 30 summers, and attracts enthusiastic audiences of genuine music-lovers joyfully making the pilgrimage. Read
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Review: CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy at Birmingham Town Hall
Jul 30 2010 | Music
Beethoven’s eighth symphony may be short but it lacks nothing in musical stature, as this blisteringly energetic performance showed. Read
