The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the May 2021 issue
Without question, Julian Lloyd Webber has had an enviable career. The British cellist, who celebrated his 70th birthday last month, worked with everyone from Yehudi Menuhin to Yan Pascal Tortelier to Neville Marriner during the first four decades of his professional life, his diary an abundance of recording and performing engagements. Yet Lloyd Webber’s career has also encompassed another important strand – an unfailing commitment to music education. Although it was a terrible blow, the injury that forced him to retire as a performer in 2014 also allowed him to build on the work of his In Harmony programme, bringing music to children in disadvantaged areas, and to become principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2015. Today, Lloyd Webber is reinventing himself again, as a conductor – and as he tells Julian Haylock on page 24, his passion and enthusiasm for music remain as strong as ever.
Line of Duty star Nigel Boyle reveals special scene as Buckells faces AC-12
Moseley-born Nigel Boyle plays Detective Inspector Ian Buckells and says Line of Duty and Peaky Blinders have put Birmingham back on the map
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Nigel Boyle, who plays Detective Superintendent Ian Buckells, says show along with Peaky Blinders have helped put Birmingham on the map
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Arab-Andalusian music, French-African art at Alliance Française Dubai
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The classical music scene in Dubai and the UAE is becoming more vibrant than ever. But perhaps locally based talents are yet to have fuller access to it. To make up for this, Alliance Française Dubai (AFD) is hosting a new series of chamber music concerts, in partnership with House of Pianos. It aims to give local artists the opportunity to perform and express their art in Dubai on a regular basis. An upcoming event in the series is the Arab-Andalusian Night on April 8 at the Alliance Française Dubai Theater, with the presentation of ‘Sonore Al Andalus.’ Taking place prior to the Holy Month of Ramadan, the concert is an immersion in Arab-Andalusian music. For close to 800 years, the Iberian Peninsula in Europe was largely dominated by Arab States. Arab rule in this part of the world led to a Golden Age of tolerance and prosperity, not to mention its profound impa
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