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4:42pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
When Graham Paton, as Antonio, opened Shakespeare Live's production of The Merchant of Venice by declaiming “I know not why I am so sad,” he may have been being slightly economical with the truth.
12:01pm Monday 6th July 2009
It’s inevitable, emotionally, I suppose that most of the attention would focus on the first half of this programme because of the appearance of the Junior Choir but, musically and significantly, the second half, featuring Will Todd’s Mass in Blue, was monumental.
3:59pm Monday 6th July 2009
This is an extraordinarily timely revival of Shaw’s political comedy on a government in crisis.
10:27pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
West Side Story Hippodrome Bristol West Side Story, which hit Broadway in 1957 and the cinemas world wide in 1961, was the birth of a new kind of musical.
2:21pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
One shouldn’t expect this immensely challenging festival to produce anything ordinary. This concert was totally extraordinary; intense, gripping and deeply moving.
2:25pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
Few could have expected this concert to have been so good. Dressed in matching white and white these two young, attractive violinists made a charming picture standing in front of a too-small audience; when they started to play it was a case of not just pretty faces… Mozart’s Duo for 2 violins, from the Piano Sonata in D major, K. 311, was a touch hurried causing a phrenetic, somewhat muddy final movement.
2:28pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
Violin, saxophone, trumpet and piano produce a dramatic sound effect: Add a narrator with a voice that can coerce with her rich European timbre or instil foreboding with clipped crystalline consonants and there is a basis for high drama.
2:06pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
Finely balanced playing with telling accenting showed how well saxophone and piano can blend.
11:19pm Sunday 28th June 2009
Corsham Festival: Barb Jungr: The Pound From her opening number, Walking In Memphis, I was hooked. And through almost all the first half of her show, the penultimate in the festival, I felt Barb Jungr had flicked through my personal music collection and plucked out the favourites.
11:36pm Sunday 28th June 2009
Vauxhall Pleasure was something of an unknown quantity: it was hard to tell from the Corsham Festival programme exactly what might happen – except that film and music were involved.
11:33pm Sunday 28th June 2009
Blending the fire of Eastern European gypsy fiddle music and the passion of Argentinian Tango, the Zum Trio took Corsham Festival by storm at a concert in the Pound Arts Centre on Monday night.
11:27pm Sunday 28th June 2009
Corsham Festival: Tracy Smith: The Book of Rubbish Ideas Monday June 22: Pound Arts Centre Feisty, down to earth and burning with enthusiasm, writer and broadcaster Tracy Smith took the subject of sustainable living by the scruff of its neck to give out all sorts of useful advice on reducing waste and saving money.
11:17pm Sunday 28th June 2009
This was a charming piece of theatre for children – of all ages.
11:14pm Sunday 28th June 2009
This is the kind of off-the-wall performance for which festivals are the perfect ambience.
11:09pm Sunday 28th June 2009
Linda Marlowe is another of the festival’s previous cover girls invited back to celebrate the 10th anniversary.
He must have been going some speed to plough through there and hit the porch! − medrith, Chippenham
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