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The greatest of all choral works
12:22pm Tuesday 20th November 2007
THE veritable feast of Bach's choral music at Hereford Cathedral between now and Easter began last Saturday with the B Minor Mass, to be followed by the Christmas Oratorio in January and St John Passion in March.
Comments (0)Skill, but no bangs or flashes from the Baroque
2:35pm Monday 19th November 2007
A PACKED house at the Courtyard on Monday, November 5, was treated to fireworks of a more restrained variety when Dame Emma Kirkby joined the instrumental group Florilegium for a programme of Baroque music - no sudden bangs or flashes, but instead a continuous exposition of the higher skills of sensitive phrasing and alluring tone.
Loving each other to bits
12:36pm Wednesday 7th November 2007
A POWERFUL and unforgettable piece of theatre, Stockholm, currently playing at Malvern's Forum Theatre, lasts just 75 minutes, but every one of them is made to count.
A fiddler to raise the roof
1:53pm Monday 29th October 2007
THEY call themselves 'the amateurs with professional standards' and with good reason on the evidence of their current production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Not for the faint-hearted
1:04pm Thursday 25th October 2007
SEXUAL obsession, revenge, hatred and a murder or two thrown in as well - it's not a night for the faint-hearted at Malvern Theatres.
Through fire and water
12:50pm Wednesday 24th October 2007
THE work of Herefordshire fire and rescue crews is being highlighted in a new book.
Perfect prose from poet Pam
12:12pm Friday 19th October 2007
IT'S not often you'll find the names Pam Ayres and Bruce Springsteen in the same sentence, but last Friday saw the former's poem Do You Think Bruce Springsteen Would Fancy Me? raise one of the biggest laughs of an evening full of them at the Courtyard.
Star turn in a star play
4:51pm Friday 12th October 2007
IT was 1895 when Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first unveiled to an enthusiastic public, but the sparkling wit and humour are just as glittering to a 21st century audience which means that, when another production rolls around, it never fails to fill the theatre.
A dream of a show
12:48pm Thursday 27th September 2007
THIS is A Midsummer Night's Dream like no other, the spell cast over the audience no less potent than the spell cast over Titania and the lovers.
Intensely moving
12:11pm Thursday 20th September 2007
SHADOWLANDS is a profoundly moving portrayal of the intense, but tragically brief, relationship between author CS Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham.
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