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...He is remembered now as the foremost composer of the generation before Purcell....
...Also known as The Kenny and The Old Girl, the 118-year-old stadium is tucked away in a tight grid of terraced houses about 20 minutes’ walk from Luton’s main train station....
...Here, Simcock sensitively replaced Taylor on Kenny Wheeler’s slightly oblique but compelling tango “Sly Eyes”, a bucolic “Growth in an Old Garden” and a pensive Taylor original....
...In Blow’s An Ode, the instrumentalists also painted vivid pictures, particularly Elizabeth Kenny, who headbanged along with her lute-playing when the text described Purcell’s eviction from Hell....
...Despite the atmospheric, candlelit setting, countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny eluded the hackneyed and the twee, serving up rarefied, melancholic songs by Handel, Purcell and Dowland...
...‘The Big Bash’, Purcell Room, London, February 15. www.southbankcentre.co.uk ‘Drumming’, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, February 16 (discussion with Steve Reich follows the performance); also at Birmingham...
...This joint project sees them team gritty funk of the next generation with a band that includes high-energy saxophonist Kenny Garrett and bass virtuoso Christian McBride....
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