Articles...
Jun 12 2008
IT’S NOT that long ago when, if a concert promoter put on a piece of Schoenberg, it equated to the heights of bravery – or total box-office foolhardiness....
May 19 2008
AT FIRST glance, it seemed a rather intense collection of excerpts from some of the great operas that the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel had chosen for his first collaboration with the Liverpool Phil’s bright new conductor Vasily Petrenko....
May 16 2008
COMPOSERS have often been obsessed with colour. Scriabin, particularly, invented a colour keyboard to attempt to relate notes and keys to particular colours. ...
May 13 2008
IT WASN’T the birth of the blues, but a case of a star is born. And it all happened within moments of Asa Heart stepping onto on stage at the Philharmonic Hall....
May 12 2008
Incredibly, that was my reaction when I walked into Bandstand on Saturday night, the venue having been turned into a dance paradise for one night only....
May 12 2008
IT MUST have been something of an emotional homecoming for Keith Pascoe, who brought the Cork Symphony Orchestra to perform at Philharmonic Hall this weekend....
May 8 2008
ON THE face of it, this looked like one of those very worthy concerts – overture, concerto and symphony: Beethoven and Mozart. It could hardly go wrong....
May 7 2008
THE fact that Liverpool can boast three of the most famous organs built in the last 150 years or so is remarkable....
May 2 2008
SIR Paul McCartney made an emotional return to a place that once turned him down as choir boy. “I have to pinch myself ,” said Paul, sporting a dapper dark suit, pale blue tie and trademark veggie shoes at the sell-out Northern Charity Premiere of Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)....
Apr 24 2008
ONE of the big selling points was that they had never performed, previously, in Liverpool....
