Festival’s Kurt Weill cabaret, with Broadway and West End stars Mary Carewe and Walter Van Dyk, gets under the skin of his creations.
Douai Abbey’s beautiful architecture, the richness of harmonies and the natural, resonant acoustic made Ex Cathedra’s Rachmaninov vespers sublime.
The Fantasia Orchestra reviewed at Newbury Spring Festival by Julia Rowntree.
The works are on display at the Corn Exchange, with 30 per cent of the proceeds generously donated to the Old Library Campaign.
Alex is a BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist, British Jazz Awards Rising Star winner and Parliamentary Jazz Awards three-time nominee.
This week’s community events in and around Newbury.
@newburytoday visits a literary festival like no other on the Wasing estate.
A feminine twist on Jerome K Jerome’s three men in a boat.
This week the girls are doing their thing - on a hen party romp, jazzing it up with sax, rockin guitar and stepping into the Little Women sisterhood.
Newbury band Revenant, surprise the near-capacity audience with 45-minute support set.
Some future stars in the making, says reviewer Mark Lillycrop.
‘This was an evening of wonderful musicianship and songwriting based on a sense of belonging’.
With Harwell and Aldermaston a few miles away, there was a knowledgeable audience for Newbury Spring Festival’s The British Atom Bomb Project.
Moving performance of Missa Solemnis by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: concludes festival fortnight. Review by Tony Trigwell-Jones.
Coracle reviewed at Newbury Spring Festival.
Former BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year Sheona White to perform some of the best brass band repertoire with Wantage Silver Band.
An evening of the purest melodies, rhythm and syncopation of steel pan orchestra, review by AMANDA HOLLIDAY.
Newbury Spring Festival’s The Music of Leonard Bernstein reviewed by GAVIN WILKINSON.
Opium – Seduction, Greed, Art - a captivating account of the impact of opium on the lives of the global population, reviewed by AMANDA HOLLIDAY.
‘I couldn’t have been happier than my time spent in good company with Granny’s Attic’ says reviewer TONY TRIGWELL-JONES.
