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Review: Ex Cathedra, at Birmingham Town Hall Jun 01 2012

For over 40 years Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra have gradually expanded their exploration of choral music, both backwards in time and forwards up to the present day.Read

Review: City of Birmingham Choir, at Birmingham Town Hall May 25 2012

This concert by the City of Birmingham Choir offered several points of comparison and contrast. A conventional enough programme (Classical Meets Romantic was the title) it partnered Beethoven’s Mass in C with Schumann’s little-known Requiem in an almost chalk-and-cheese musical pairing.Read

Variety's the spice of life at Birmingham concert halls May 18 2012

An action-packed nine months lie ahead at Birmingham's Town Hall and Symphony Hall. Christopher Morley gives us the score.Read

Review: BBC Concert Orchestra, at Birmingham Town Hall May 11 2012

Monday saw the latest in BBC Radio 3’s mildly self-indulgent “themed” days, this one being devoted to portraits in music -- and Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations was the obvious choice to crown the evening’s live broadcast by the BBC Concert Orchestra from Birmingham Town Hall.Read

Review: Juilliard String Quartet, at Birmingham Town Hall May 04 2012

This recital was the only UK concert by the famous Juilliard String Quartet after a jaw-dropping April with concerts in the USA, Turkey, Germany and Denmark. Next stop USA.Read

Review: The Sinking Of The Titanic, Gavin Bryars Ensemble at Birmingham Town Hall Apr 20 2012

Since its composition in 1969, Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking Of The Titanic has undergone many transformations. In its latest incarnation, presciently timed for this centenary memorial year, it has now emerged as a mixed-media presentation for chamber ensemble (eight strings, woodwind, brass, keyboard and percussion), projected visuals (by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder) and electronics.Read

Jazz Diary Apr 19 2012

He wrote Blues In The Night, Get Happy, That Old Black Magic, the song that Frank Sinatra made his own, One For My Baby, and the one Judy Garland made hers, Over The Rainbow.Read

Review: Orchestra of the Swan, at Birmingham Town Hall Mar 23 2012

No wonder the Orchestra of the Swan gets full houses at its Birmingham Town Hall events. Read

Review: Ex Cathedra Consort, at Birmingham Town Hall Mar 16 2012

For some Bach is an acquired taste. For others he is a composer who satisfies on every level, as Ex Cathedra demonstrated so stunningly in the opening concert of last weekend’s Bach mini-festival.Read

Review: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, at Birmingham Town Hall Mar 16 2012

Symphony Hall’s highly successful Back Weekend, part of its 21st birthday celebrations, ended with a delicious programme of some of the composer’s best-loved orchestral music from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – actually in the appropriate ambience of Birmingham Town Hall, elder sister to the bigger venue.Read

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