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29 June Proms Present Day with a New BBC Commission He Oversaw the British Premieres Reaches of Jazz and Blues, While Fripp the Proms Get a Bad Rap 38 June 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk 020 7738 2348 June 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 39 Events Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk Goodman’s been assassinated. And so has Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact, written theme, this work features his dog. MacHeath the contract killer they have quite a few. They’ve just signed variations by 14 living composers is dangerously on the loose. What the on the dotted line for a studio flat. Under MUSIC including Sally Beamish, Sir Harrison hell is the world coming to? Pioneering a pseudonym, naturally, Mr and Mrs Birtwistle, Dai Fujikura and Judith theatre company Kneehigh returns to the White. After years of school pick-ups, TV Weir. Lyric with their trail-blazing and much takeaways, and the day to day drudgery of ROUND UP celebrated Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and married life, this is their chance to wipe other love songs). Using their legendary the slate clean. But as much as they try BY GEOFF COWART • In the bicentenary year of Queen mix of puppetry, physical theatre and live and re-define the rules, and themselves, Victoria’s birth, Stephen Hough music, the extraordinary cast of actor- the outside world is closing in. Ultra- performs Mendelssohn’s First Piano musicians hoot and shimmy through this contemporary, sexy and funny, Rust pushes Concerto on her very own piano. On timeless story of power and lies, based on the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the loan from The Queen, this will be the John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. limit. Your summer of musical first performance on the piano outside King Crimson to rock Royal 020 8741 6850 020 8743 5050 Buckingham Palace. Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL 7 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8LJ anniversaries beckons as the Albert Hall for 50th birthday lyric.co.uk bushtheatre.co.uk BBC Proms toast to the 150th • A concert dedicated to the genius of Nina Simone featuring American Meanwhile, the tributes to Sir It’s been 50 years since a young guitarist Ends June 15 June 29 birthday of its founder Sir jazz singer Ledisi and conductor Jules named Robert Fripp and his merry band Beneath The Blue Rinse Theatre Tour Henry seek to highlight the Henry Wood, while “prog Buckley. of mischief makers played their first gig Park Theatre The Coronet huge amount of classical music as King Crimson at the Fulham Palace Quentin Tarantino meets Last of the The Coronet Theatre started life in 1898, rock” royalty King Crimson A Cadogan Hall series focusing on café. Summer Wine in this wickedly funny, designed by WGR Sprague, architect of • that he championed for British Since then, the group has spent high octane comedy about growing old many of the West End's most beautiful turn 50 notable female composers from the past; SATURDAY passionately and disgracefully. When theatres. Edward VII often visited, Ellen such as Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara audiences. the past 50 years defining a style of unscrupulous, over-confident salesman Terry and Sarah Bernhardt trod its boards, Strozzi and Clara Schumann to the progressive music that explored the outer Simon Sudgebury comes knocking on and it was where John Gielgud saw his 29 JUNE Proms present day with a new BBC commission He oversaw the British premieres reaches of jazz and blues, while Fripp The Proms get a bad rap. The flag- the door of the seemingly timid Flora first Shakespeare play. In 1923 it became from Freya Waley-Cohen. of hundreds of works at the Proms, has established himself as one of the FULHAM SW6 waving final night is a quirky footnote Parkin, hoping to scare her into buying the much-loved Coronet Cinema, but was including Stravinsky’s The Firebird, best British guitar players of the 20th in what is one of the most storied and an expensive alarm system, little does he increasingly neglected until taken over by 9am to 5pm A C Beebies family concert celebrating Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and century. Even if their angular approach accessible festivals in London. With • realise what he is about to let himself in Anda Winters in 2014. As it is gradually the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra. leaves some listeners cold, King Crimson for. Feisty, charismatic 75 year old Flora restored, today the building combines more than 90 concerts over eight weeks Moon landing with a new work from This summer, 33 of the pieces that have made a huge impact on music every and her gentle 72 year old ‘toy boy’ lover grand architecture with an intimate and the Proms consistently draws the world’s soundtrack legend Hans Zimmer. The Wood introduced to UK audiences will bit as big as their contemporaries in George are not what they first appear! warm setting, including candle lit hallways, greatest musicians to London. moon landing will also be marked by be performed, along with 33 new works Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin. 020 7870 6876 antique décor, stage props and the most Henry Wood’s mission was to bring cult archive-mining electronic duo to do Sir Henry proud. The eighth incarnation of the Fripp- Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London beautiful theatre bar in London. the best of classical music to the widest Public Service Broadcasting as they Every note of the Proms will be led group returns to their west London N4 3JP 020 3642 6606 possible audience. This is still the present a new orchestral arrangement of broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and birthplace with three nights; June 18 to parktheatre.co.uk 103 Notting Hill Gate, London case. But there’s now so much more to W11 3LB their 2015 album, Race for Space. Expect available for 30 days online. With the 20 at the Royal Albert Hall. The group celebrate with Afropop and jazz, hip hop Ends June 22 thecoronettheatre.com a mix of music and radio recordings BBC Sounds App, audiences can now has performed sparsely since 2014, and pizzica, on offer at this summer’s J’Ouvert portraying the tale of the US/Russian listen to the Proms remotely, anytime, but two recent shows at the Roman Proms. Tickets start at just £6 for every Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Ends August 31 space race. anywhere. Or catch one of the 25 Amphitheatre in Pompeii have whet the event. Hill are alive with history and amongst Hamilton performances on TV throughout the appetite of fans. the pulsating “soca”, dazzling colour, and Victoria Palace Theatre The action begins at the Royal A huge landscape-inspired work from festival. Now backed by three explosive endless sequins and feathers, Jade and Hamilton is the story of America's Albert Hall on Friday July 19 with the • Vintage Days Out composer John Luther Adams, titled Selected concerts will be presented as drummers (Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Nadine are fighting for space in a world Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus In The Name Of The Earth and featuring a binaural audio stream enabling radio Harrison and Bill Rieflin), expect Fripp they thought was theirs. A timely reflection an immigrant from the West Indies, who performing Janacek’s monumental for celebrations, four community choirs packing in more listeners, using ordinary headphones, to to showcase material from their 12 on the Black British experience and sexual became George Washington's right-hand Glagolitic Mass. The festival finishes on than 600 singers. experience the concerts as if they were studio albums, including many of the politics of Carnival, J’Ouvert is a piercing, man during the Revolutionary War and family outings, to Saturday September 14 with concerts in present in the Royal Albert Hall. songs from their seminal 1969 release, In hilarious and fearless story of two best helped shape the very foundations of Belfast, Swansea, Glasgow and Hyde friends, battling to preserve tradition the America we know today. The score A sci-fi film music Prom of scores Tickets are available at bbc.co.uk/ the Court of the Crimson King. exclusive Henley Park. • in a society where women’s bodies are blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and from cult space and sci-fi films, proms or by calling 020 7070 4441 or in 7.30pm. Tickets from £50. frequently under threat. Broadway; the story of America then, Royal Regatta including Steve Price’s Gravity and Mica person at the Royal Albert Hall. www.royalalberthall.com 020 7978 7040 as told by America now. Hamilton has This summer’s highlights Levi’s Under The Skin, presented by the 503 Battersea Park Rd, Battersea, London, book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel experiences London Contemporary Orchestra under SW11 3BW Miranda, is directed by Thomas Kail, with include: Robert Ames. theatre503.com choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler Swedish sound and musical supervision and orchestrations Looking for ways to create memories this Summer with family, friends or • Ealing-resident and pianist Murray June 19-25 by Alex Lacamoire and is based on Ron colleagues? Perahia performing Beethoven’s artist duels with The Damned (Les Damnés), Comédie- Chernow's biography of Alexander Fourth Piano Concerto with the Vienna Française Hamilton. Vintage Days Out, a privately-owned company, offer prestigious memorable experiences along the River Thames’s most idyllic stretches steeped with Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink. medieval church The Barbican 0844 482 5138 Crackling with intensity, this triumphant Victoria St, Westminster, London SW1E undiscovered secrets from Henley-on Thames to Wallingford, and scenic organ spectacle directed by Ivo van Hove depicts 5EA Chauffeur driven rides through Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
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