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Arab musician breaks down barriers

A MUSICIAN on a mission headlines Liverpool's Arabic Arts Festival. Read

Lipa's mini festival

THE Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts (Lipa) launches its summer mini-music festival tonight, featuring gigs by students graduating next month. Read

Muslim and Christian voices join as one

THE striking Muslim Call to Prayer features in a major Christian choral work at Philharmoic Hall tomorrow. Read

Write on, lads ...

BOOKER Prize joint winner Barry Unsworth is chief guest at this year's Writing On The Wall Festival, which launches tonight. Read

The boys and the Bard

LIKE father, like son. The physical resemblance of theatre director Ed Hall to his legendary father, Sir Peter, the former boss of the RSC and National Theatres, is uncanny. Read

Musical Director for the Phil, Gerard Schwarz

Taste of true Brit for the Phil's new season

THE Liverpool Philharmonic is to introduce full-length Sunday afternoon concerts and hold a Mozart Festival as part of its 2005/ 2006 programme announced today. Read

Class struggle

IT HAS been hailed as the greatest Afro-American play - the drama which provided a wakeup call to both blacks and whites. Read

British actress Denise Black

The day I got naked in bed with Ken Barlow...

IT'S 10 years since Denise Black was at the epicentre of Coronation Street's biggest ever love re-shuffle. Read

Bewigged Alan in the classical guise of Bach

SEVENTIES Coronation Street heart-throb Alan Rothwell is currently going Bach to the future. Read

Not for the easily offended

A NEW Liverpool theatre company launches tonight with the UK premiere of a sex play which producers say "would make even Kinsey blush". Read

Malcolm Stewart, Philharmonic

IT IS almost two years since Malcolm Stewart left the Liverpool Philharmonic, having been the orchestra's longest serving leader. Read

Hope for top opera

A BIG scoop for Liverpool's newly-accredited university - Hope College. Read

Telling tales on our city's proud maritime history

HERE'S the Liverpool history lesson - in one long take. Read

Kennedy realises a dream to play the Cavern

SUPERSTAR violinist Nigel Kennedy likes playing in Liverpool. Read

St Matthew Passion, Liverpool Cathedral

TRADITIONALLY, liturgical music can say more than a thousand sermons. Read

Keys to our hearts

RICHARD Clayderman could have been a concert pianist, tinkling the ivories en route from Mozart to Mousorgsky. Read

I'll be no angel when I'm up on city stage

SHE'S already made her name on Channel 4's No Angels. And now Kaye Wragg is about to have her name up in lights - in Liverpool theatreland. Read

Miss Saigon at the Liverpool Empire Theatre

The man behind Miss Saigon

THERE are few things bigger in musical theatre than Miss Saigon - except, perhaps, the man behind the show. Read

My sense of tradition

THE Scottish musician James MacMillan openly acknowledges his place - as a champion of British classical music. Read

Lists creating Static

Who said lists were boring? At Liverpool's Static Gallery they have become an art form. Read

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