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At last, the Proms will welcome live audiences back to the Royal Albert Hall. Here’s our selection of the best concerts of the 2021 season

NZSO and RNZB perform in Kerikeri and Whangarei: The Soldier's Tale and Town and Country 14 May, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich and NZSO players performing The Soldier's Tale, which will be in Kerikeri next month. Photo / Stephen A'Court. NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich and NZSO players performing The Soldier's Tale, which will be in Kerikeri next month. Photo / Stephen A'Court. Northern Advocate Northland classical music and dance lovers are in for several treats next month when the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra brin...

Enid Bagnold’s 1955 English play The Chalk Garden, a Broadway hit before it opened in the West End, is usually described as a comedy because of Bagnold’s acerbic dialogue and droll appreciation of intricate employer-servant dynamics. Enid Bagnold’s 1955 English play The Chalk Garden, a Broadway hit before it opened in the West End, is usually described as a comedy because of Bagnold’s acerbic dialogue and droll appreciation of intricate employer-servant dynamics. If most of the wit was polished out of the 1964 version, directed by Ronald Neame and scored by Malcolm Arnold i...

Published: April 7, 2021 at 3:46 pm Malcolm Arnold did not hold back on the percussion when writing his Fourth Symphony – alongside the usual symphonic forces, the orchestra includes bongos, tom-toms and maracas – and, as the composer himself explained in 1971, the 1960 work’s distinctive Afro-Caribbean flavour had been prompted by recent events and their aftermath. Advertisement ‘I was appalled that such a thing could happen in this country,’ wrote Arnold about the 1958 Notting Hill race riots. ‘The fact that racial ideas have become increasingly strong in this country ...

Julian Lloyd Webber: ‘I remortgaged my home to buy a Stradivarius’ Julian Lloyd Webber tells how his upbringing helped to shape his work ethic, and how an injury almost spelt the end of his career 14 March 2021 • 5:00am ‘No one seems to believe it when the name Lloyd Webber name is used, but money was tight’ As a solo cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber, 69, has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. In 2014, he was forced to stop playing after sustaining a neck injury. Between 2015 and 2020, he was principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He now c...