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The Capstone Theatre Liverpool’s International Arts Venue Spring Season January - May 2019 Events Calendar January ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 2019 26 Saturday 7.30pm The Big Blind March 27 Sunday 12noon Travelled Companions Presents 24 Sunday 12noon The Death Of Stalin & 2pm 5 More Minutes 24 Sunday 4pm 2001: A Space Odyssey February 24 Sunday 7.30pm Kerem Quartet - 30 Years On 9 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: “All The Threes” 25 Monday 1pm The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu 26 Tuesday 12.30pm Tales From The Golden Age LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 26 Tuesday 7.30pm Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City 27 Wednesday 6pm Henry V - The King’s Knickers (Or Made In England) February 28 Thursday 11am The Sound Of Opera 21 Thursday 7.30pm David Helbock´s Random/Control 28 Thursday 3.30pm The Lives Of Others 22 Friday 7.30pm Strobes 28 Thursday 7.30pm Musica Argentina 23 Saturday 1pm Milapfest Presents Afternoon Ragas 29 Friday 1pm Moon 23 Saturday 4pm Double Bill: Downes & Challenger 30 Saturday 11am Song Of The Sea and Watts & Grew 30 Saturday 1pm Music For The Mind And Soul: 23 Saturday 7.30pm Darius Brubeck Quartet Josh Feinberg & Kousic Sen 24 Sunday 12noon Curly Woodwind Workshop Day 30 Saturday 5pm Immix Ensemble & Chatsworth Community College (Feat. Andy Sheppard) 24 Sunday 1pm, 2pm Triple Bill: After The Flood, April & 3pm Deep Cabaret, Ancient Infinity Orchestra 2 Tuesday 7.30pm Nikki & Jd Presents: Knot 24 Sunday 4.30pm Atom String Quartet 12 Friday 7.30pm Andrew Poppy - Hoarse Songs, A Cosmic Opera 24 Sunday 7.30pm VEIN Featuring Andy Sheppard In 10 Sonic Scenes 13 Saturday 7.30pm Milapfest Presents Swati Dance Company - March Half Of Me 2 Saturday 7.30pm DiN Double Bill: 26 Friday 7.30pm Court And Spark - The Joni Mitchell Songbook D’voxx + Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney 27 Saturday 1pm Music For The Mind And Soul: Desai, Sen And Chauhan ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 2019 May March 4 Saturday 7.30pm Allerton Brass: Galaxies 22 Friday 3pm The Washing Up 11 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpooljazz Presents Jeremy Sassoon’s 22 Friday 7.30pm The Phil Shotton Big Band “Ray Charles Project” 23 Saturday 12noon My Life As A Courgette 18 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: Drum Roll 23 Saturday 2pm Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra 19 Sunday 1pm Music For The Mind And Soul: 23 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra - French Influences Murad Ali & Kousic Sen 23 Saturday 7.30pm Pixels Ensemble - Voices Of Italy 24 Friday 7.30pm John Etheridge’s Sweet Chorus THE BIG BLIND TRAVELLED COMPANIONS PRESENTS 3 5 MORE MINUTES Saturday 26th January 2019, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions) Sunday 27th January 2019, 12noon and 2pm Dominic Kelly - storyteller Family Ticket: 2 adults + 2 children - £21.52 Bridget Marsden - violin Children - £7.50 Adults - £9.50 Babes in arms - free Leif Ottosson - accordion When Moon and Stars are shining in your eyes A boy stands on a lakeshore. Behind him is all he’s ever Then I will sing to you a lullaby known. Ahead: a chance for love but a much higher chance The day is over now it’s time for bed of death. He’s had a happy life, and a sheltered one. But his But with five More Minutes we can play instead? father gambled away that life, the debt cannot be paid in money and it won’t be his father who pays. Aimed at children ages 3-6 and their families, 5 More Minutes is a funny Childhood is over… and magical show about bedtime for children and their grown-ups, in which we explore the fun, frustration and fantasy from that magical time Dominic Kelly, Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson between awake and asleep. Real world play will blur with the magic of combine storytelling and music into a playful and gripping dreams as we all try to settle down and finally get ready to say goodnight performance. They bring to life an ancient full-blooded fairy and go to sleep… unless that is, we can have 5 More Minutes!? tale for modern audiences, weaving versions from Norway, Scotland, Ireland and India with contemporary Scandinavian folk music. Through it they explore the consequences for the young when older generations fail to make adult decisions. 4 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: Eyes down for all the threes! Dissatisfied with his original overture for the opera Fidelio, Beethoven ended up composing four versions. Leonore No.3 “ALL THE THREES” is one of them, and considered by many as the best and most dramatic. Of Saturday 9th February 2019, 7.30pm Saint-Saëns' three concertos for violin, the last one is the most popular, and for good reason. Dedicated to the composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) it combines technical fireworks with drama, melodic invention, and a Venue: The Great Hall beautifully serene second movement. Brahms wrote four symphonies but the £15 (Senior Citizen £13.50, renowned music critic Eduard Hanslick said that “the Third strikes me as being Student 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) artistically the most perfect.” Full of the romantic drama you would expect from Brahms in the outer movements, the second movement shows Brahms’ Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3 more pastoral style and the third movement, instead of the rapid scherzo Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No.3 norm of the 19th-century, is an intensely lyrical Allegretto full of nostalgic Brahms - Symphony No.3 yearning. For this concert, LMO welcome back the dream team of conductor Sergej Bolkhovets and violinist Sophie Rosa after their electrifying concert Sergej Bolkhovets - conductor with LMO last season. Sophie Rosa - violin

5 LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 Photo credit: Hansjörg Helbock Hansjörg credit: Photo Support will be provided will be provided Support Introduces North Jazz by Loris, a double artist Slow guitar quartet Leeds from of hip-hop jazz, whose love music and metalelectronic rocky informs their fresh, sounds. and forceful More recently, the trio’s repertoire repertoire the trio’s recently, More music of the inspiration from derives jazz piano players, favourite Helbock’s some of their most with arrangements of of versions exciting famous tunes. New, or Hancock Herbie by Man Watermelon emerged, have Walton Cedar Bolivia by pieces like but also soft, atmospheric Song shine like new. My Jarrett´s Keith DAVID HELBOCK´S RANDOM/CONTROL HELBOCK´S DAVID 21st FebruaryThursday 7.30pm 2019, £11.50 percussion piano, electronics, - piano, inside David Helbock Bär - trumpet,Johannes didgeridoo, piccolo trumpet, tuba, beatbox, percussion electronics, & percussion Andreas Broger - woodwind has Random/Control the years, Over a verydeveloped distinct band sound that adopting projects and approach, musical material to transform different their very idiosyncratic instrumentation. began its life instance, the group For folk of Austrian with interpretations music and performances of Helbock’s original compositions. Liverpool International Jazz Festival (LIJF) Liverpool International Festival Jazz by Liverpool Hopewas established in 2013 has included and in previous years University, performances of Jazz music’s from some as Courtneyleading lights – artists such Impossible Trio, Pine, Denys Baptiste, Roller Led Bib, PhilipGentlemen, Kit Downes, Neil Cowley Troyka, Catherine, GoGo Penguin, Trio. Velocity Rollins’ and Dennis Trio, is on The emphasis of the Festival contemporary instrumentala variety of jazz in styles, taking audience members on a musical journey that traverses numerous genres and there are support cross-genres. Along the way, artists, masterclasses, sets from North West performers andand workshops from Festival after-events. The Seventh Liverpool International Jazz from Thursday 21st to place will take Festival Sunday 24th February 2019 and is supported by LiverpoolJazz. Liverpool InternationalLiverpool 2019 Jazz Festival The supporting artist this for a wonky concert is Kollega, quartet electro-jazz from Lancaster playing all originals. loops, irreverent Fusing bass processed samples, live and tiny analogue synths with acoustic drums and tenor sax they paint a uniquely organic futuristic soundscape some big funky grooves over that are works creating musical, extraordinarily animated and captivating. Formed of keyboardist Dan Nicholls (who has worked with Matthew Herbert), Herbert), Matthew with has worked (who Nicholls Dan of keyboardist Formed Calvert man Matt and synth and guitar band) Plant’s (Robert Smith drummer Dave via their debut has created, Strobes Orchestra), Heritage Tigers, Trapped (Three time-stamps. from and feels free eschews, a sound that genre Brokespeak release intricate frantic tempos and off that fire group an intensely high-octane They are and an grooves fluid accessibility through an they also retain yet complexities, array of sonic and a vast Conjuring big beats of melodic intuition. engaging sense music flickers effortlessly the worlds of electro- between possibilities, Strobes’ original distinctively and grooves polyrhythm, Afrocentric minimalist improv, and sampling live composition, studio production, collective from hooks. Built odd-tempo loops, to exhilarating fiery, from jams, the music ranges improv to TheArtsDesk, 'beats that make and, according polyphonic synth soundscapes . and earrings rattle' loose clothing shimmer

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Saturday 23rd February 2019, 1pm In this unique performance, three extraordinary £6.50 musicians come together to celebrate the beauty of Indian Classical music and its long association with Jazz. Manish Pingle - Mohan veena Gurdain Rayatt - tabla Manish Pingle is one of the world’s leading Mohan veena Jack Jennings - electric guitar (Indian slide guitar) players. This world-class musician is a disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez, the renowned sitar maestro. Joining him on stage is Gurdain Rayatt, a disciple of Pandit Shankar Ghosh and one of the UK’s leading tabla players, having accompanied many of India’s most prestigious artists. Completing the line-up is electric guitarist, Jack Jennings. Jack studied the sitar with Donough Sanfay, a disciple of Amarnath Mishra, and is known for his pioneering approach to the adaptation of Indian classical music for the electric guitar.

The Trio will take the audience on a dynamic and exciting journey through the world of Indian Classical music. Whilst the music they play is in keeping with tradition, the innovative inclusion of the electric guitar embraces new timbres and melodic nuances without compromising the original spirit and intensity of the music. This is a rare combination of instruments and musicians from different backgrounds, celebrating the music that brought them together. 8 DOUBLE BILL: DOWNES & CHALLENGER LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 AND WATTS & GREW Saturday 23rd February 2019, 4pm Venue: The Great Hall £11.50 Kit Downes - piano After being asked by the Southbank Trevor Watts - saxophone Tom Challenger - saxophone Centre in 2014 to write a new work Stephen Grew - piano for the opening festival of the recently Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award- refurbished Royal Festival Hall Organ, Since the 1960s, saxophonist Trevor Watts has been at winning, Mercury Music Award he went on to work with Aldeburgh the forefront of many innovations within Jazz, World and nominated, solo recording artist for Music and Tom Challenger on a improvised musical areas, both as a saxophone player, ECM Records who has toured the project called Vyamanikal, a series of percussionist and composer. He is the only surviving world with groups such as Squarepusher, recordings documenting extended founder member of the hugely influential Spontaneous Troyka, Empirical and Nostalgia 77, techniques on various local church Music Ensemble, and has, through the years, formed bands collaborative projects such as ENEMY, organs (often in various states of and collaborated with musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, Vyamanikal, and duo projects with disrepair). Very recently, in 2018, he Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, Rashied Ali, Steve Lucy Railton and Aidan O’Rourke. He released his first solo album for the Swallow, Bobby Bradford, Cyro Baptista and Stan Tracey. has also collaborated with composers ECM label, an album of music for Currently his main artistic projects include a long-standing Matt Rogers and Mica Levi, electronic solo organ entitled Obsidian. He is duo with pianist Veryan Weston, and work with the group musician Leafcutter John, and drummer joined for this very special concert by Moire Music Drum Orchestra. saxophonist Tom Challenger. Seb Rochford. Pianist Stephen Grew is one of Europe's most dedicated and imaginative pianists. His playing, free from the constraints of traditional harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures, is a virtuosic tour-de-force of dynamic extremes, percussive effects and spontaneous atonal flourishes, by turn surprising, witty and breath-taking. In 1995 he formed his band Grew Trio which went on to tour Europe extensively. Since then, he has gone on to collaborate with some of the leading figures in free-improvised music including Pat Thomas, Paul Hession, Keith Tippett, Evan Parker and Clive Bell amongst many others. DARIUS BRUBECK QUARTET CURLY WOODWIND 9 LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 Saturday 23rd February 2019, 7.30pm WORKSHOP DAY £15 (FEAT. ANDY SHEPPARD) Darius Brubeck – piano Sunday 24th February 2019, 12noon Dave O’Higgins – saxes Venue: Warehouse Theatre Matt Ridley – bass Free Admission Wesley Gibbens – drums To register, please contact Curly Woodwind on 0151 707 9468 Sixty years ago in 1959, Dave Brubeck As a 10-year old boy, Darius Brubeck or email [email protected] recorded the internationally known was present with his father on that and influential album Time Out. It very tour and during this concert, he Liverpool sax specialists Curly Woodwind host another is an album that, along with Miles and his quartet, formed 12 years ago, action packed afternoon of workshops and demonstrations Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s will celebrate that musical and cultural for all sax players and enthusiasts. This year, international sax Giant Steps and Ornette Coleman’s journey with hits from Time Out, but superstar Andy Sheppard guests with an informative lecture The Shape of Jazz to Come, changed also with many original compositions on all aspects of his playing, practicing and performing the direction of modern jazz. From it, and Darius’s stories. – a great treat to gain some useful insights from one of of course, everybody knows Take Five, the UK's finest. Curly Woodwind will also be hosting which came out in 1959 following the workshops throughout the afternoon for players to join in release of Blue Rondo a la Turk which The supporting artist for this and learn instrument techniques and useful approaches to was influenced by the classic Dave concert is Manchester quintet, improvisation. Bring your sax and join in. Brubeck Quartet’s ambassadorial tour Artephis. Described by mentor of Europe and Asia. Photo credit: Rob Blackham Rob credit: Photo Mike Walker (The Impossible Sponsored by Curly Woodwind, Vandoren Sax Gentlemen) as having ‘an Products, Yanagisawa Saxes and Trevor James Saxes. organic, collectively individual sound that always has an eye on the narrative’, the group has toured extensively throughout the UK. They are a Jazz North Northern Line artis, and former Jazz North Introduces artist. Ancient Infinity Orchestra (3pm): Orchestra Infinity Ancient - bass Ozzy Moysey bass - Elliot Roffe - guitar James Milligan - violin Evan Davies Cliffe - saxophone/flute Matthew - saxophone Jacob Rider - bass clarinet/flute/Joel Stedman percussion Joe Love - drums is a nine-pieceOrchestra Ancient Infinity of the group’s Leeds. One ensemble hailing from starting thefrom aims was to distance itself technical aspects of academicperhaps overtly in compositionsmusic and to find expression social politics and elemental forces, by inspired doing so the ensemble music. In devotional through and exploration a sense of joy retain that run singing the gamut from improvisations full band and gong soundscapes to bowl They a whisper to a roar. from conversations; Sun by Influenced artists such as find themselves and the Art of Ensemble Sanders Ra, Pharoah African,Chicago and also draw influence from music. and devotional Indian

Deep Cabaret emerged fully-formed from the emerged fully-formed from Cabaret Deep quicksandsintertidal mudflaps and cowbelly an entrancement creating Bay of Morecambe andDesert blues improv of riffs and drones. bagpipes, hurdies, dronesongs; noir-drenched and bass drumscyzyk, cello , bass clarinet folk and torching jazz, rooted make sparkling heart, that target your spine, brainvocals romanticand feet. The music is fulsome and one moment, edgy and disturbing the next. science, literature, lyrics sampled from With sit-coms, anything that has something to say about being human. interesting Deep Cabaret (2pm): Deep Cabaret Maja Bugge - cello and guitar Steve Lewis - vocals Ben McCabe - drums and vocals baritone - bass clarinet, Matt Robinson saxophone bagpipes Sherwood - hurdy-gurdy, Paul

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Amy Chidlow, Get IntoThis Get Chidlow, Amy Graceland ‘‘ Graceland Simon’s Paul Imagine Fragile Yes’s with a musical baby Imagine if the world was almost destroyed destroyed if the world was almost Imagine just a fewWith survivors were left. and there worldthe goal of building a new positive of the past what sort of the wreckage from music would surviving musicians make? each a pan-global music where create ATF musician is an equal part of the whole. Their music draws on minimalism, folk music, and other African, Indian rock, progressive indigenous musical styles, using polyrhythms, and tight arrangements but structures cyclical plenty of space for improvisation allowing and self-expression. Neil Campbell - guitar Marty Snape - guitar Des Murphy - keys Gardiner - Overwater bass Roger Nordberg - drums Viktor £11.50 The Flood (1pm): After TRIPLE BILL: AFTER BILL: TRIPLE FLOOD, THE FebruarySunday 24th 1pm, 2pm & 3pm 2019, DEEP CABARET, ANCIENT INFINITY ORCHESTRA INFINITY ANCIENT DEEP CABARET, Photo credit: David Munn David credit: Photo

10 LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 ATOM STRING QUARTET Atom String Quartet is one of the most intriguing string quartets in the world, and 11

also one of best Polish jazz bands. The group combines the capabilities of a string LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2019 Sunday 24th February 2019, 4.30pm quartet (i.e. two violins, viola and cello) with improvisation in its broadest sense. Venue: The Great Hall The set of instruments of a chamber music ensemble, which is most classic and firmly established in music tradition, enables the artists to search for new sounds and forms. £11.50 It is difficult to define the musical style of the group which, besides jazz, is inspired by Polish folk, music of various regions of the world, and also contemporary and classical Dawid Lubowicz - violin music. The Atom String Quartet was established in Warsaw in 2010 and, since doing Mateusz Smoczynski - violin so, has performed at most of the world's major Jazz Festivals, produced four original Michal Zaborski - viola albums, and collaborated with artists such as Branford Marsalis and Bobby McFerrin Krzysztof Lenczowski - cello (amongst many others). Photo credit: Ivon Wolak Ivon credit: Photo ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ trio piano creative An incredibly Stone Rolling ‘‘ to strength strength VEIN go from Guardian The Fordham, John Andy Sheppard - saxophone Andy Sheppard - piano Michael Arbenz - bass Thomas Lähns Florian Arbenz - drums VEIN FEATURING ANDY SHEPPARD ANDY FEATURING VEIN FebruarySunday 24th 7.30pm 2019, £15 Sheppard, with his distinctive and modern style that with his distinctive Sheppard, of tradition, is one of the most is always respectful scene. He important of today's Jazz saxophonists lyrical, the groove-heavy, through masterfully moves open pieces rhythmically and harmonically complex and mainly which and passages of the quartet's repertoire, compositions, and brings to them consists of their own playing. Jazz the spirit of great Just as the trio has created an almost symbiotic interplay an almost symbiotic as the trio has created Just its stupendous together its background, bringing by musical togetherness and its concept of maximum fails to find an equality for all members, it never inspiring addition in Andy Sheppard. incredibly Since Swiss trio VEIN was formed, it has regularly regularly VEIN was formed, it has trio Swiss Since with guest musicians in horizon- joined forces Their projects. expanding and ground-breaking with the astonishing British longstanding collaboration and makes for an exciting Andy Sheppard saxophonist quartetunconventional and a meeting point for four chemistry. musicians with great

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DIN DOUBLE BILL: D’VOXX + IAN BODDY & NIGEL MULLANEY Saturday 2nd March 2019, 7.30pm £15

DiN Records, one of the UK’s premier ambient electronic labels, Ian Boddy (DiN label boss) and Nigel Mullaney are seasoned presents an evening of modular synth music. These instruments have electronic music performers and will be pushing the boundaries made a real comeback in recent years and provide the performer with of what can be achieved with modular systems in a live setting. all the building blocks for them to create their own custom system. As Mullaney’s rhythmic excursions provide the backdrop for Boddy such, every performance is a unique sonic event. to improvise using fascinating electronic instruments such as the Resonant Garden & French Connection Ondes Martenot keyboard. d’Voxx is a live electronic music duo and will be launching their debut album, Télégraphe (DiN58) in 2019. Their music both looks at the past with its tightly choreographed, Berlin School inspired sequence lines but wraps this in a gorgeous blanket of modern ambience. 14 ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 2019 ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 22 - 30 MARCH 2019 It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to The Angel Field Festival, 2019.

The Angel Field Festival is a new 2019 marks the 50th year since the addition to Liverpool’s cultural calendar first moon-landing, 30 years since the - an international, combined arts demolition of the Berlin Wall, 30 years festival situated in the Everton district since the end of the Ceausescu regime in of Liverpool, which sets out to delight, Romania, 100 years since the Bauhaus challenge, beguile and thrill with its and, from March 2019 of course, the content and events. It will feature commencement of Brexit. These historic music, theatre, dance, film, visual art and events will inform some of the shape of storytelling from around the world as well the festival’s content. as that found much closer to home. We Performances and events will feature offer a hearty welcome to our audiences as collaborations with Tate Liverpool, we seek to provide excellent arts for all - for FACT, National Museums Liverpool, our mind, bodies and spirit. RLPO, Milapfest, IMMIX Ensemble and Liverpool Hope University’s Angel Field The European Opera Centre, alongside Festival builds upon the rich tradition of performances from students and alumni the Cornerstone Festival and will run from of Liverpool Hope University. 22nd – 30th March 2019, with our newly renovated Creative Campus as its hub and its highly-commended Angel Field Garden Professor Stephen Davismoon, at its heart; its programming will also reach Artistic Director Angel Field Festival out across the historic, cultural city of Associate Dean Creative Campus Liverpool through collaboration with our Head of School of Creative and Performing Arts many cultural partners. THE WASHING UP With original songs and stories, The Washing Up takes an absurd look at the politics 15

and practice of this every day act. Audiences have told performers, small performance ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 22 - 30 MARCH 2019 Friday 22nd March 2019, 3pm adventures, that the show is “bonkers and brilliant”. Join them to explore what lies Venue: The Warehouse Theatre beneath the surface bubbles and find out whose turn it is to do the dishes and how they should be done. Every kitchen sink has a story to tell, of power struggles and pots and £6.50 pans, of greasy plates and moments of quiet contemplation…

The Washing Up was premiered at Your Place, Brighton Festival in 2018 and has also been performed in a range of community settings including Brighton Youth Centre, Hurstpierpoint Church, Pavilions (Brighton’s Drug and Alcohol service provide) and The Railway Land Trust in Lewes. The piece is a collaboration between small performance adventures, a theatre company working with artists and participants in addiction recovery, and Cascade Creative Recovery, a peer led creative support organisation working to support recovery.

funny, irreverent, restless and inventive BN1 Magazine 16 THE PHIL SHOTTON BIG BAND ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 22 - 30 MARCH 2019 Friday 22nd March 2019, 7.30pm Venue: The Great Hall £11.50

Led by the dynamic saxophonist and conductor and featuring some of the very best big band and jazz musicians from across the country, The Phil Shotton Big Band brings a tantalising selection of swing music written for and recorded by the great Count Basie Orchestra together with the fabulous vocal talents of Chris James taking on the role of Frank Sinatra. Think Sinatra Live at at the Sands and you will have an idea of what a treat you’re in for. High-energy swinging arrangements from Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and others plus exceptional soloists and first-rate vocals. All packaged in an informative, exciting and humorous show!

Think Michael Bublé with a hint of rebel in his past and you have Chris James, the king of big band swing! The Flintshire Leader BBFC Logo Set for Video Packaging from 2002

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LMO welcomes back conductor a French citizen. Chopin’s style was Jonathan Small to conduct its March already becoming apparent and the concert, which has a French thread majestic opening movement is followed running through it. The Belgian by what one critic called a movement playwright Maurice Maeterlink, of “indescribable beauty”. The Rondo although Flemish, always wrote in finale has all the technical demands you French. Sibelius wrote incidental music would expect of Chopin, which soloist to his 1892 play Pelléas et Mélisande Luke Jones will undoubtedly handle in 1905. Music of great contrasts, it is with aplomb. Finally LMO will perform perhaps best known for the opening Francis Poulenc’s delightful Sinfonietta. movement At The Castle Gatewhich is A pupil of Erik Satie, Poulenc was one the theme of the world's longest-running of the group of young French composers TV programme, The Sky at Night. known as “Les Six”. The four movement Chopin was just 19 when he composed work is typical of his orchestral his Piano Concerto No.2. A year later he style and is light and full of dance finished his formal education and went rhythms, bringing the concert to a to live in Paris, eventually becoming very French end. BBFC Logo Set for Video Packaging from 2002

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The film, which follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution, deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artiticial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Sound and dialogue are used sparingly and often in place of traditional cinematic and narrative techniques. The soundtrack incorporates a number of pieces of classical music, among them Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II and works by Aram Khachaturian and Gyorgy Ligeti. BBFC Logo Set for Video Packaging from 2002

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Saxophonist Jan Kopinski and pianist Steve Iliffe perform their original score live to the film and follow its five acts of the daily diary of a city moving from the rhythmic to the abstract. Mirroring the pace and dazzle of the editing, the music responds to the human curiosity and the wonder of how we find ourselves in the modern world. Their composing and improvising skills, together with a sense of detail to sound and Even without the film, this is music interaction in performance, bring real empathy to silent films. that swims in history, sombre and With new detail appearing each time they perform to it, the richly allusive piece seems to create a subtle poignancy at every viewing. CODA HENRY V - THE KING’S THE SOUNDS OF OPERA 23 ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 22 - 30 MARCH 2019 KNICKERS (OR MADE IN Thursday 28th March 2019, 11am ENGLAND) Free Admission Wednesday 27th March, 6pm Charles Dodge - Any resemblance is purely coincidental (1980) Venue: The Warehouse Theatre Roger Smalley - Sommeil de Rameau (2014-15) Free Admission Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)

What do you think about when you think about Adam Swayne (RNCM) - piano England? Henry V kicking ass at Agincourt? Or great big M&S knickers? Part history, part story-set, and This electroacoustic music concert, hosted by Dr Manuella Blackburn in part straight-up rant, The King’s Knickers wilfully picks collaboration with Kenneth Baird (European Opera Centre), will focus on at the loose elastic of national identity, asking what a electroacoustic repertoire that engages with musical borrowing. hard-drinking, battle-hardened hero king - and really big knickers - can tell us about being English today. All the works in the programme Stephe Harrop is a contemporary storyteller, spitting directly borrow, reference and cite out new words and playfully re-spinning old tales to from the world of opera, namely try and make sense of a crazy world. compositions from Rameau, Puccini and Leoncavallo.

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Created in collaboration with award-winning choreographer Ben Duke of Lost Dog Dance Company, Knot is a very modern affair told with delicate sensitivity through breath-taking acrobatics and heart wrenching dance.

Surprisingly funny. The true success of Nikki and JD’s Knot lies in the sensitive portrayal of a strong and dynamic human bond Eve Ryan, North West End Photo credit: Laurent Cahu Laurent credit: Photo 28 make projects whichevade classification. The Beating of Wings in1985.He continuesto releasing maverick hisfirstalbum poplabelZTT He signedto Trevor Horn andPaul Morley’s phers, theatre artists. makersandperformance choreogralaborating withothermusicalartists, - summer schoolwithJohn col- Cageandstarted Feldman andcomposing.He laterattendeda Glass, Riley,he beganperforming Cageand Goldsmiths College,LondonUniversity where In the1970sAndrew Poppy studiedmusicat £11.50 Friday 12thApril2019,7.30pm ANDREW POPPY -HOARSE SONGS,ACOSMICOPERA IN10SONICSCENES introspection ofspaceandthefluiditygender. and issues:theveiled intimacyofcouples,the ideas thematics develop around contemporary opera singersoratraditionalnarrative. But the September 2018,the pieceisanoperawithout ing'. Previewed attheBarge House, London,in andacinematic'happen- neously aperformance Hoarse Songsishislatestalbum.It isalsosimulta-

Photo credit: Julian Roberts MILAPFEST PRESENTS COURT AND SPARK - 29 SWATI DANCE COMPANY - HALF OF ME THE JONI MITCHELL SONGBOOK Saturday 13th April 2019, 7.30pm Friday 26th April 2019, 7.30pm £8 £17.60 (£13.50 concessions) (Please book at www.milapfest.com) Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist Half of Me is an emotive work that brings together a cross genre of dance and voice of a generation, Joni Mitchell and theatre performed by highly charismatic Bharatanatyam dancers with is an essential part of the soundtrack modern choreography, using a poignant story-line and spellbinding music to the 20th Century. She grew up with by Praveen D. Rao, a versatile composer from India who creates a new folk music in the 60's, she railed against genre of music, connecting classical music with modern sensibilities. injustice in the 70's - she turned her autobiography into song in the 80's and Inspired by Satinder Kaur Chohan’s reinvented herself in the 90's. Court play by the same title, Half of Me and Spark - The Joni Mitchell Songbook is based on a modern day theme will take you on a musical journey that which shares often unheard stories of will probably mirror your own journey young people born through Assisted through life, from Ladies of the Canyon, Reproductive Technologies (ART) and Clouds, For the Roses, Blue and Court draws parallels to a similar storyline and Spark, to the cool, evocative sounds based on motherhood from the famous of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Indian epic The Mahabharata. Mingus and Turbulent Indigo. Photo credit: Julian Roberts Julian credit: Photo 30 MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND SOUL: ALLERTON BRASS: DESAI, SEN AND CHAUHAN GALAXIES Saturday 27th April 2019, 1pm Saturday 4th May 2019, 7.30pm Admission Free £10 (£8 concessions) (Please book at www.milapfest.com) For tickets call 07752 678224

Dr Subhadra Desai - Hindustani vocals The ever popular South Liverpool Brass Kousic Sen - tabla Band Allerton Brass is delighted to return Rekesh Chauhan - harmonium to The Capstone to present its new show Galaxies. In 2018 they took us Around Dr Subhadra Desai is a Hindustani vocalist Kousic Sen provides a unique rhythmic the World in 80 Minutes. This year they known for her contemplative melodies. For heartbeat to any concert experience in a will boldly go where no man (or woman) this performance, her stunning vocals will style that is uniquely his own. Known across has gone before, on a musical voyage of be elevated to new heights by the percussion the globe as a master collaborator, he has discovery to infinity and beyond. mastery of Kousic Sen and rising star Rekesh performed with some of the top names in Chauhan on harmonium. Indian Classical music. What else would you possibly expect from this versatile ensemble? Dr Subhadra Desai is a musician, researcher Rekesh Chauhan is a multi-talented musician. and academic, as well as an empanelled artist In today’s performance he will be playing with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations the harmonium but he is also known for his and an accredited A Grade artist at All India mastery of the piano. He released his debut Radio. She has composed music for ancient album Beyond Roots with the support Sanskirt and Pali texts in classical Ragas and has of Milapfest in 2015. performed in venues across the globe. LIVERPOOLJAZZ PRESENTS JEREMY SASSOON’S “RAY CHARLES PROJECT” 31 Saturday 11th May 2019, 7.30pm £22 Originally launched at the Manchester Jazz Festival in 2009, Jeremy Sassoon’s tribute to the music of Ray Charles captures the imagination of Jazz, Blues and Soul audiences alike. Since then the show has gone on to headline Ronnie Scott's, The Jazz Cafe, Bluesfest at the O2, Manchester Jazz Festival, Ribble Valley Jazz & Blues Festival and most recently the 2018 Wigan International Jazz Festival.

The late, great Ray Charles produced an immense repertoire of memorable tunes spanning several decades. Singer-pianist Sassoon reflects this with a set that include Ray Charles classics (Georgia on my Mind, What I’d Say, I Gotta Woman, Hallelujah I Love Her So) and some lesser known, but equally compelling musical gems from the catalogue (The Jealous Kind, I Don’t Need No Doctor, Hardhearted Hannah).

The Ray Charles Project always showcases the UK’s finest musicians and this concert, featuring a 17-piece band, is no exception. Mike Walker features on guitar (Impossible Gentlemen, Mike Gibbs, George Russell), multi-instrumentalist and local legend Steve Parry plays lead trumpet, and all arrangements come courtesy of tenor saxophonist and MD Iain Dixon (BBC Big Band, Michael Brecker, Bryan Ferry). The show is further lit up by Jeremy's stunning trio of backing vocalists, the “Jaelettes”.

This concert is presented by LiverpoolJazz. Photo credit: William Ellis William credit: Photo 32 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: MUSIC FOR THE MIND AND SOUL: DRUM ROLL MURAD ALI & KOUSIC SEN

Saturday 18th May 2019, 7.30pm Sunday 19th May 2019, 1pm (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) Admission Free (Please book at www.milapfest.com) £15 (Senior Citizen £13.50, Student 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) Murad Ali - sarangi Kousic Sen - tabla Mozart - Overture to Don Giovanni Mozart - Exultate Jubilate Experience one of India’s most unique Wendy Dickinson - New Work Albinoni - Oboe Concerto in G minor Op.9 No.8 instruments - the sarangi! Maestro Murad Haydn - Symphony No.103 “Drum Roll” Ali will be performing alongside percussion master Kousic Sen in this concert of stunning Andrew Casey, Mark Edwards - conductors melodies and rhythmic beats. Louise Dickinson - soprano Michael Shennan - oboe Murad Ali is a sixth generation sarangi player, having begun his musical journey at the age Drum roll please - introducing not one but two soloists from the LMO, of 10. Alongside his classical training, he a new work from a member of the LMO and all conducted by two young has also participated in cross-cultural and conductors from the RNCM, Andrew Casey and Mark Edwards. Mozart’s experimental musical endeavours. Murad is ominous overture to Don Giovanni will be followed by his joyous Exultate an award-winning musician who has played Jubilate sung by Louise Dickinson. Next comes the première of a new in venues across the world. A Music for work from LMO violinist Wendy Dickinson dedicated to the memory the Mind and Soul concert would not be of LMO's much-missed colleague John Cook, member and Treasurer of complete without tabla favourite, Kousic the orchestra for over 40 years. Principal oboist, Michael Shennan, will Sen. The master drummer from Kolkata is then perform one of Albinoni’s many oboe concertos. Finally, to bring this known globally for his world-class percussion aptly named concert to an end, Haydn’s penultimate symphony, No.103, skills and he is one of the most sought after known as the “Drum Roll” because of the opening roll on the timpani, is accompanists. choc full of Haydn’s normal liveliness and melodic invention. JOHN ETHERIDGE’S SWEET CHORUS 33 Friday 24th May 2019, 7.30pm £15

Photo credit: Doreen Pallier Doreen credit: Photo John Etheridge - guitars Christian Garrick - violin Dave Kelbie - rhythm guitar Andy Crowdy - double bass

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of The music is inspired by the classic John Etheridge’s Sweet Chorus debut sounds of Django Reinhardt and album. The band was formed by guitar Grappelli, whose legendary partnership legend John Etheridge as a personal galvanised European Jazz. But in the tribute to Stephane Grappelli, arguably spirit of these two giants, who were the greatest jazz violinist of the 20th forever looking forward, this is no Century. Etheridge accompanied slavish imitation. Grappelli on numerous world tours between 1976 and ’81 and appeared Etheridge and Garrick are musicians on four discs, including two with of broad experience and sensibility Yehudi Menuhin and Grappelli – the and they bring their range to the table famous partnership which had such here – so expect a dazzling and varied phenomenal success in the 70s. display of acoustic jazz rather than ‘Hot Club’ mimicry. The repertoire When Grappelli died at the age of consists of a mixture of standards, nearly 90, Etheridge, who had played American swing, Latin American and with the great man at his last concert original compositions played with wit, in England (Cheltenham Jazz Festival humour and virtuosity and propelled ’96), was moved to pay personal by the propulsive drive of Kelbie and tribute. Sweet Chorus was formed Crowdy. Another feature of the concert initially just for a short tour, but is the affectionate and often funny became so immediately successful that reminiscences of John’s time with it has continued to this day. Grappelli – a man who was eccentric, inspired, and highly individual. 34

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STORIES START AT LIVERPOOL HOPE Read Attila’s story at hope.ac.uk/future Venue Information How to Book Tickets Accessibility TicketQuarter operates the Box Office for The Capstone Theatre is fully accessible to wheelchair users. When most events at The Capstone Theatre, unless booking tickets, please advise TicketQuarter staff of your requirements. otherwise stated in individual listings. The Theatre has a number of accessible seats with space next to them to accommodate wheelchair users. For each ticket booked for one of Tickets can be purchased in advance by: these spaces, you will be offered a free ticket for an accompanying carer, if required. An induction loop system is in operation at The Capstone 1 Calling 0844 8000 410 Theatre. If you have any further questions about venue accessibility please email us at [email protected]. 2 Booking online at www.ticketquarter.co.uk

Tickets for events are produced in the form of e-tickets which the ticket Times of Events purchaser prints themselves or displays on a phone or similar device at the Times indicated are performance start times. Venue doors normally venue. There is a £1.50 fulfilment fee per order. open 45 minutes before the performance start time. Venue staff reserve the right to restrict entry into the theatre for performances that have Where indicated, concessionary ticket rates are available to people under 18 started, to avoid disruption. years old, students and senior citizens. Please be prepared to provide proof of eligibility. Parking A Box Office will be available at the venue on the evening of events, There is limited parking available on site from 45 minutes prior to provided there are tickets still available. The evening Box Office normally FROM ART STUDIOS evening performances. This is available on a first-come first-served basis. opens 30 minutes before the start of an event. For cyclists, there is also a small bike parking area next to the main entrance of the Theatre.

The information in this brochure is provided by the artists and edited by Join The Capstone Theatre Mailing List Liverpool Hope University. Joining the mailing list means we can keep you updated on STORIES START AT LIVERPOOL HOPE forthcoming events and offers. It is very easy to join. Simply visit the link at www.thecapstonetheatre.com/venueinfo and submit Read Attila’s story at hope.ac.uk/future your details to the online form. By Car Finding Us Directions from the M62: At the end of the M62, follow signs for City Centre, continuing straight ahead for about 2 miles. Turn right onto Low Hill (also signposted for City Centre) continuing straight ahead at the traffic lights leading onto Erskine Street. Turn right at the next traffic lights [Office Outlet store on right] onto Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left. Directions from the M56: From Junction 15 join the M53. Continue to Liverpool via the Wallasey Tunnel (Kingsway). Exit straight ahead toward Scotland Road/Byrom Street. Keep in the left-hand lane and at the traffic lights follow to left (signposted Warrington, Manchester and M62) on to New Islington. Stay in the left-hand lane to the second set of traffic lights and turn left on to Shaw Street. The Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left.

By Public Transport Bus: From Liverpool City Centre (Queen Square) the Arriva and Stagecoach bus services travelling to the Creative Campus are the 12, 13 and 14 which stop on The Capstone Theatre Brunswick Road (near to Office Outlet). A two minute Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus walk from Office Outlet down Shaw Street will lead to the 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP venue (on the left opposite the Collegiate). The 21 from T: 0151 291 3578 Queen Square travels along Shaw Street and can drop you E: [email protected] directly in front of the venue. www.thecapstonetheatre.com Rail: The Creative Campus is around ten minutes’ walk from Liverpool’s largest and main railway station, Liverpool Capstone Theatre Lime Street. The main entrance to Liverpool Lime Street is opposite Queen Square Bus Terminal from where you can travel by bus (see above). @CapstoneTheatre