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...In 2017 the game’s creators handed curation over to artists, asking Frank Ocean to create a radio station for GTA V....
...We could compare and contrast Poulenc’s elegant setting of “Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred” with the breathlessness of Britten’s....
...A series of numbers from Walton’s film score for Henry V, perhaps one too many, showcased rousing speeches from Dominic West’s King Henry....
...dark play. barbican.org.uk, June 22-July 2 Béatrice et Bénédict / A Midsummer Night’s Dream Glyndebourne Festival OperaBerlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict is directed by Laurent Pelly (July 23-August 27) and Britten...
...E.V. Crowe’s Brenda, too, explores shifting identity. “I’m not a person,” the eponymous young woman (Alison O’Donnell) tells her loving, worried boyfriend (Jack Tarlton)....
...The same challenge marks her La Scala debut in January, and in June she impersonates Tytania in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Valencia....
...A short first half brought a selection of four wildly varied works played without a break, ranging from Elliott Carter’s Figment V, a playful set of variations for marimba written in 2009, to Toshio Hosokawa...
...“V (Island Song)” began with a piano making dissonant patterns alongside Barnett’s unmelodic sing-speak....
...Britten celebrations The 100th anniversary of the birth of British composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten is marked....
...Benjamin Britten : A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, £30, 688 pages Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Six, 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed...
...Highlights include the return of violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy, Daniel Barenboim’s Ring Cycle and the centenaries of Benjamin Britten and Witold Lutoslawski, the British and Polish composers, are marked...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Steve Reich’s Drumming and Clapping result in a fairly smooth surface, while Benjamin Britten’s music gives a more frantic finish....
...Other recent examples include Cambridge University Press, which sponsored a tour of South America by the Britten Sinfonia to coincide with the company’s restructuring in that continent, and Rolls Royce,...
...Getting your burger bar in V Festival will cost £6,000. They know people are desperate to get any business they can.”...
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