Category Archives: Music
What we like right now…telegrams, trilogy and take 6
We loved Anna Meredith Five Telegrams premiere at First Night of the Proms with light show, courtesy of 59 Productions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cntc7
We were hugely impressed by the performances in The Lehman Trilogy at The National Theatre.
We were delighted to listen to Take 6, Jacob Collier’s guests at his Prom.
What we like right now…Greece, Glyndebourne, Greenwich.
British Museum exhibition celebrates the friendship of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Niko Ghika and Joh Craxton Charmed Lives in Greece.
Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Critics mixed but we were enthralled.
To National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to hear the sublime Emeli Sande. News of Columbia World Cup Penalties came through at same time.
What We Like Right Now…Flaming June, Forensics and Feste’s Friends
@PalimpsestTweet production The Muse starring the incomparable Andy Wincott. He plays Frederick Leighton who painted “Flaming June”, currently on loan from Puerto Rico.
Edge-of-the-seat first episode of latest series of “Line of Duty” with working mother Thandie Newton.
Delightful, laugh-a-minute androgynous Twelfth Night at The National with Tamsin Greig starring as Mrs.Danvers-like Malvolia and Doon McKichan’s tuneful Feste.
What we like right now…Sopwith Camels, Shannon Matthews, Saint Luke’s
War in the Sunshine Exhibition at Estorick Collection.
Sheridan Smith and Siobhan Finneran in The Moorside.
Elisabeth Leonskaja playing Shostakovich at LSO St Luke’s
What we like right now…Salieri, Shobdon and Shakespeare
Sublime production of Amadeus at Olivier. Lucien Msamati and Adam Gillen. And musicians galore.
A welcome return to Herefordshire and the delights of Shobdon Church.
80-year-old Glenda Jackson as King Lear and strong supporting cast at The Old Vic.
What we like right now: The Missing, Magical Mystery Tours and The Middling Sort
Spine-tingling storytelling in this second series of The Missing.
Hugely enjoyable The Beatles Eight Days a Week – the touring years.
Coffee at our nearby museum The Geffrye with its dedication to “the middling sort” and a wander round its chronologically-arranged gardens.