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In this week's archive edition we find ourselves back in the home and in conversation with folk singing legend Shirley Collins. This is her story: how she went from collecting voices to finding, losing, and eventually discovering her own again. ....
2021-05-11T10:28:00+01:00 Among the offerings is Surround Sound, a multi-stage classical ‘mixtape’, performed in Ely Cathedral The Britten Sinfonia is to return to perform for live audiences in June, with concerts in London, Ely and Snape Maltings. Among the highlights of its schedule is the UK premiere of Thomas Adès’s Shanty - Over the Sea, in a concert celebrating Thomas Adès at 50 (Thursday 10 June, 8pm, at Barbican Hall, London). Elsewhere, the orchestra performs world premieres of music by Tansy Davies, John Woolrich and the posthumous world premiere of one of the final works of late composer, John Tavener (Friday 25 & Saturday 26 June at 3pm and 7pm, Snape Maltings). ....
Baroness O’Cathain, businesswoman criticised for her authoritarian style at the Barbican – obituary She improved the arts centre’s finances but lost the confidence of colleagues. Later on, in the Lords, she defended the traditional family 28 April 2021 • 11:52am Detta O Cathain (1993): her apparent contempt for the ‘whinges’ of people she referred to as ‘arty-farty types’ was bound to raise hackles Credit: UPPA/Photoshot Baroness O Cathain, who has died aged 83, was a forthright businesswoman who endured a torrid time as managing director of the Barbican arts and conference centre from January 1990 to March 1995. When in the early 1960s the City of London made a “gift to the nation” of the £150 million arts complex, it was assumed that the Barbican would pay for itself, with the rent from exhibitions and conferences covering the costs of the concert hall, cinema, two theatres and art gallery. By 1990, however, the centre was costing t ....
2021-04-15T09:37:00+01:00 The Live from the Barbican series will be accessible online as well as for a reduced, socially-distanced live audience from 17 May The Barbican has announced that in-person tickets for concerts scheduled after 17 May 2021 will go on sale to Barbican patrons on Wednesday 21 April, Barbican members on Thursday 22 April and will be on general sale from Friday 23 April 2021. The spring/summer concerts of the Live from the Barbican series will take place as livestreams until 17 May and then continue to be accessible online for a global livestream audience, as well as for a reduced, socially distanced live audience in the Barbican Hall. ....