Howard Assembly Room Autumn 2015
It Takes Two: Glorious, interesting and unexpected musical pairings, adding up to more than the sum of their parts Voices: Annual series of extraordinary vocalists from all over the world
Autumn evenings at the Howard Assembly Room...
Jenufa: Different takes on Janáček’s opera about love and loss
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IT TAKES TWO
Music Friday 18 September 7.45pm £10 Save 20% ‘It was astonishing – direct, raw, wounded, loud… The voice of a bear smouldering on a peat fire, the words of poet’ The Quietus
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Richard Dawson & Aşiq Nargile With support Rising from the River Tyne to become an unmistakable presence on BBC Radio 6 Music, Richard Dawson has a voice that crumbles and soars, steeped in balladry and chiselled observations of the mundane. Somewhere between Captain Beefheart and Robert Wyatt, he is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. The new album Nothing Important has seen Dawson's song visions seep, uncompromised and irrepressible, into wider consciousness.
Music Thursday 1 October 7.45pm £12.50 Save 20% ‘…a musical spell that is well nigh universally effective.’ BBC
Sain Zahoor Sufi musician Sain Zahoor embodies the cultural soul of Pakistan’s popular street culture. With his robes, beads, tightly bound turban and single-string ektara lute, Zahoor delivers Sufi Kalams with focused and flamboyant joy. Spotted by a Pakistan TV presenter playing sacred music outside shrines, Zahoor was fast-tracked into a studio to record pieces by the great Sufi poet Bulleh Shah. Without a manager, or a record deal, Zahoor won a BBC World Music Award in 2006 and has since released records, contributed to film soundtracks and performed all over the world.
In this special double-bill, the Howard Assembly Room also welcomes Georgian singer and lutenist Aşiq Nargile, whose deeply expressive voice and virtuosic playing have become known through the acclaimed Sayat Nova project. 4
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Music Saturday 19 September 7.30pm £17.50 Reserved seating
Borodin Quartet Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Borodin When four students gathered at the Moscow Conservatory to play string quartets one afternoon in 1945, they set the foundations for one of the world’s finest chamber music ensembles. The Borodin Quartet today ranks among the great names in music-making, acclaimed for its rich sound and insightful interpretations.
The group’s current members celebrate their 70th anniversary year with a packed schedule of international performances, including their debut at the Howard Assembly Room. Here they play a stellar programme featuring Tchaikovsky’s emotional Quartet No.1, Beethoven’s powerful Quartet No.4 and one of the Borodin Quartet’s signature pieces: Borodin No.2.
‘Here we have not four individual players, but a single sixteen-stringed instrument of great virtuosity’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Music Friday 2 October 7.45pm £12.50 Save 20% ‘... his melodic sense is acute and original, his narratives and harmonies varied, and his pacing subtle’ The Guardian
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Aaron Parks Trio Aaron Parks is a leading musician in the new generation of jazz pianists and composers to come out of New York: a master of melody, and a composer and arranger of protean skill and dexterity. This, his first UK tour, sees Parks joined by two formidable musicians, bassist Ben Street and masterly drummer Billy Hart, whose rich history stretches back to Miles Davis and includes stints with Wes Montgomery and Herbie Hancock. Parks’ luminously atmospheric solo debut album for ECM, Arborescence, has received glowing reviews and established him as one of the most talented jazz musicians of his generation.
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IT TAKES TWO Music Sunday 4 October 7.45pm £12.50* In association with ReCon Festival and Room 237 ‘…emotionally intense, eclectic and challenging as ever’ Clash Magazine *Very limited availability. Find out first, fast and free sign up to our e-list. Clash Magazine
Xiu Xiu
Plays the Music of Twin Peaks There is no more apt a group to perform Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch's distinctive score for Lynch's seminal Twin Peaks TV-series than Jamie Stewart's Xiu Xiu. Like the show, their music is elusive and dream-lit with dark undertones. Commissioned by David Lynch himself, this is an immediately recognisable yet entirely new interpretation of the music of Twin Peaks; emphasising its chaos, drama, fear and sidelong leering glances. Jamie Stewart on the Twin Peaks project: ‘It is romantic, it is terrifying, it is beautiful, it is unnervingly sexual.’
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JENUFA
Music Friday 9 October 5.30pm – 10.00pm FREE to drop in anytime
Light Night Parklife
Discover a glowing summer night in the middle of the October chill, with love, longing and sweet music on the air. A strange band of musicians is spellbound to play all night long in a mysterious bandstand: welcome to Light Night 2015. A whirl of European music from Bartók to Brahms brings to life lost worlds. Ferocious Transylvanian fiddling meets smoky Hungarian café songs. The Howard Assembly Room is transformed into a strange and magical carousel where the music plays on, perhaps forever. Join us for a night in the park and an unforgettable experience of music in 3D and surround sound. Parklife accompanies Opera North’s production of Janáček’s Jenufa at Leeds Grand Theatre in October. With his soul-piercing, folk inspired score and a world-class cast, this is a beautifully simple and direct staging by film, theatre and opera director and designer, Tom Cairns.
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VOICES Music Friday 16 October 7.45pm £15 Save 20% ‘Hamasyan stands out because he has something important and urgent to say’ Daily Telegraph
Tigran Hamasyan & Yerevan State Choir Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan and members of the Yerevan State Choir perform a unique exploration of their nation's music, as flowing improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of their homeland. Tigran and the remarkable choir perform music he has arranged by seven Armenian composers including Komitas (the founder of modern Armenian classical music), who is well known to admirers of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble. Although only in his twenties, he is releasing new album Luys i Luso on ECM and is highly praised by piano luminaries Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau for his astounding ability and lyricism.
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JENUFA Film Saturday 17 October 7.45pm £5 Dir Jirí Menzel. Czechoslovakia; 1966; 93 mins; Cert 15. In Czech with English subtitles. DARE international film series, in association with University of Leeds.
Closely Watched Trains At a village railway station in Czechoslovakia during the German occupation, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, he embarks on his own personal drama of sexual awakening, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater. Wry, tender and understatedly dramatic, Oscarwinning Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave. The film will be introduced by James Wilson, Teaching Fellow in Russian and Language Studies at University of Leeds.
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VOICES Music Saturday 24 October 7.30pm £20 Reserved seating ‘Their sound is warm and resonant, and they sing this 300-yearold music with the freshness and ardour of true believers’
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Vox Luminis
Purcell: Night and Day Vox Luminis is a Gramophone award-winning European ensemble specialising in 16th – 18th century vocal music, known for its seamless blend of exceptional individual voices, exquisite tuning and clarity of sound. For this autumnal concert, the programme centres on the sublime songs of English composer Henry Purcell. Turning a traditional liturgy of the hours on its head, a beautifully chosen selection of sacred and secular songs begins in the evening, and ends with the uplifting brightness of morning. The programme is completed with pieces by John Blow and Matthew Locke.
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Music Thursday 29 October 12.00pm & 2.00pm £5 adults, under 3s free ‘The music is wonderful... the performance is perfect for little ones.‘ Audience member Suitable for ages 0-2½ Max. 2 adults per child Duration: 50 mins
Musical Rumpus Lyrebird
Musical Rumpus is an interactive, multisensory experience, especially for babies and toddlers. Before words and music existed, sound blossomed into beautiful loops and patterns and sang the world into being. Inspired by the Australian lyrebird – an animal that can mimic any sound and make it into song – award-winning Spitalfields Music presents an enchanting adventure in music, written by Zoë Palmer and composer Soosan Lolavar. As the story unfolds in a space full of sounds and colours, you and your child can discover making music together.
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VOICES Music Saturday 31 October 7.45pm £15 Reserved seating Commissioned and produced by Opera North Projects
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The Tiger Lillies Love For Sale
The songs of Cole Porter including ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’, ‘Love For Sale’ and ‘Miss Otis Regrets’. From High Society to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter’s musicals are always emotional roller-coasters, but under their surfaces lie beautiful, tender and often mysterious romantic trysts. In the hands of The Tiger Lillies the darkness and wonder of these songs come out to play, for an evening of delight, despair and delirium.
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Following the huge success of Lulu: A Murder Ballad, Opera North and The Tiger Lillies embark on a new voyage into the words and music of one of America’s all-time great songwriters.
‘They are completely peerless’
Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand)
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Music Wednesday 4 November 7.30pm £17.50 Reserved seating ‘Kempf has the ability to turn his hand to every mood and style necessary.’ Time Out
Freddy Kempf Freddy Kempf is one of today’s most successful pianists, performing to sell-out audiences all over the world. A first-class musician, Kempf has built a unique reputation as an explosive and physical performer not afraid to take risks, as well as being a serious, sensitive and profoundly musical artist. With Tchaikovsky’s Grande Sonata as its culmination, the programme is a tour de force of skill and ‘impetuous Beethovian fire’ (The Guardian), also including two Chopin Polonaises and Beethoven’s Pastoral. Making a long-awaited return to the Howard Assembly Room following his 2011 concert, early booking is highly recommended.
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IT TAKES TWO Film Friday 6 November 7.45pm £5 Dir Tom Berninger; USA; 2013; 75 mins; Cert 15. ‘…the funniest, most meta music movie since Spinal Tap’ Pitchfork
Mistaken for Strangers Hailed by Michael Moore as ‘one of the best documentaries about a band that I've ever seen’, Mistaken for Strangers is a hilarious and moving film about two brothers, Matt and Tom Berninger. Matt, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band The National, finally finds himself flush with success. His younger brother, Tom, is a loveable slacker – a filmmaker and metal-head still living with his parents in Cincinnati. On the eve of The National's biggest tour to date, Matt invites Tom to work for the band as a roadie, unaware of Tom's plan to film the entire adventure.
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VOICES Music Saturday 7 November 7.30pm £17.50 Reserved seating Save 20% ‘…sumptuoussounding soprano’ The Guardian
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Kate Royal & Joseph Middleton
In collaboration with Leeds Lieder If there were a fitting adjective to describe young British soprano Kate Royal, it might be ‘regal’, as she has the sort of luminously lyric voice that comes from the same realm as those of Renée Fleming or Felicity Lott. She is joined by Leeds Lieder’s new Director, pianist Joseph Middleton in a programme that includes Mahler’s tender and direct Rückert Lieder, based on poems by Friedrich Rückert of whom Mahler wrote ‘I could not compose anything but Rückert’ – as well as a selection of pieces by Robert and Clara Schumann.
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VOICES Music Wednesday 11 November 5.45pm £5 Duration: 1hr ‘A marvellous original work.’ The Observer on 2015 album Coracle
Emily Portman Trio Twilight Concert
Emily Portman lures listeners into a complex and darkly surreal netherworld that ‘casts an entrancing spell’ (The Observer). Her ethereal voice combines with beguiling harmonies from Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton, and rich arrangements for harp, concertina, banjo, strings and saw. This musical beauty meets a world of dark storytelling, cruel deeds and sordid city landscapes, partly inspired by traditional balladry and in part by rich literary sources, from myth to the magical realism of novelist Angela Carter.
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VOICES Music Friday 13 November 7.45pm £20 ‘The duo's banjos produce such a rich palette of sounds that you'd swear a full string band was at work’ Songlines
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Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Multiple Grammy award-winner Béla Fleck is possibly the best banjo player in the world, reinventing his instrument’s sound in a worldspanning career that has featured collaborations with Chick Corea, Edgar Meyer, and Toumani Diabaté, among others.
Music Saturday 14 November 7.15pm £17.50 Reserved seating ‘…heart-stoppingly beautiful’ The Independent
Brodsky Quartet
The Last Quartets: Beethoven & Shostakovich Beethoven concluded his final quartet with the enigmatic phrase ‘Must it be? It must be!’. The phrase remains ambiguous but certainly evokes the essence of the music, and its stark, hymn-like final movement.
His duo with Abigail Washburn makes magic from both traditional and original songs. Their sound is steeped in languages of American music, combining the earthy sophistication of the old-time singer-songwriter, with an instrumental ingenuity that transcends its bluegrass roots. The fast-fingered interplay of the two creates an astonishing sonic landscape from an array of banjos, laced with warmth and playfulness.
The second half of the concert is Shostakovich’s final quartet, the intense and wintry Quartet No.15 in E flat minor, Op.144.
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This specially conceived collaboration between the Brodsky Quartet and Opera North brings together these last quartets with beautifully atmospheric and restrained lighting that reflects and responds to the their exceptional interpretation of these jewel-like final works. 23
VOICES Music Saturday 21 November 7.45pm £15 ‘…astounding,’ BBC
Huun-Huur-Tu The legendary Tuvan throat-singers Huun-Huur-Tu return to the Howard Assembly Room. Huun-Huur-Tu almost single-handedly introduced the outside world to Tuvan over-tone techniques invented by nomadic hunter-herders on the Tuvan steppe and have collaborated with musicians as diverse as Frank Zappa, Nina Nastasia and the Kronos Quartet. Using traditional instruments, percussion and an array of vocal techniques, they create an almost unbelievable world of sound. While many of their themes are pastoral, this is no gentle folk music but fierce, heart-searing and incredibly direct. Unmissable.
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IT TAKES TWO Music Friday 4 December 7.45pm £15 Reserved seating Save 20% ‘remarkable...an elegant, gently exquisite set’
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Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita It’s been an amazing couple of years for Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita as they have gathered awards and praise for their debut album of ‘heavenly music… intricately realised’ (Songlines). The harps of West Africa and Wales and the two nations’ bardic traditions, expressed through song and verse, create music that is coherent, relevant and entirely new. The sky is the limit for this fearless pair of skilful musicians whose infectious onstage chemistry defies categorisation and continues to merge the boundaries between the genres of classical, world, folk and traditional music.
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Music Saturday 28 November 7.15pm £5 ‘The Opera North showcase was one of the highlights of my year at the NOS.’ David Butt Philip, National Opera Studio graduate (2012), who makes his Opera North debut in Jenufa this Autumn
Mozart Unwrapped National Opera Studio 2015 Great moments from three of Mozart’s finest operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni are brought together in this exploration of the relationship between words and music in Mozart’s work. Focussing on the operas he wrote with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, the concert is performed by great singers of the next generation from the National Opera Studio, with sparkling direction by Giles Havergal. The concert is conducted by Aleksander Marković, and is performed by members of the Orchestra of Opera North.
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VOICES Music Thursday 3 December 7.15pm £17.50 Reserved seating ‘…mellifluously lyrical, emotionally intense musicmaking’ The Sunday Times
Mark Padmore & Simon Lepper Schubert, Schumann, Brahms & Wolf British tenor Mark Padmore makes a welcome return to Leeds, following his 2010 performance of Dichterliebe, with another of Schumann’s great song cycles, set to poet Heinrich Heine: Liederkreis Op.24. Written in 1840, Schumann’s ‘year of song’, Liederkreis is a meditation of lost love and longing. Journeying though the great Lieder composers, Padmore also brings his ‘startling purity of tone’ (The Guardian) and clarion way with words, to songs by Schubert, Wolf and more. Simon Lepper, ‘one of the most gifted and enterprising accompanists of his generation’ (Opera Magazine), accompanies on piano.
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Music Friday 23 October 7.45pm £17.50 Reserved seating ‘Kouyate holds something that could rival the electric guitar’ The Quietus
Bassekou Kouyate Ba Power
On his way home from the USA, Howard Assembly Room favourite Bassekou Kouyate stops off in Leeds for a special blues-inflected set, inspired by his travels. This project is paired with music from his muchlauded new album, Ba Power – a striking, career defining record marked by mesmirising songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume significantly and Bassekou’s masterful ngoni playing has achieved a new level of intensity. Early booking is highly recommended.
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Music Friday 18 December 5.30pm & 7.45pm £5 Reserved seating Duration: 1hr 15mins
The Night Before Christmas Christmas Concert
Kick-start your Christmas spirit with a beautiful candlelit concert for the holiday season. In the darkest days of the year, the scene is set for a wonderland of festive music, carols and spectacular images. From Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé, Bach and Handel to carols and Billie Holiday, the halls are decked with holly and the Yuletide log lit, for a feast of music to banish the most stubborn winter blues, and bring the spirit of Christmas to your door.
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Film Saturday 19 December 1.30pm £5 adults, 18 and under £3 Dir. Henry Selick; USA; 1994; 76 mins; Cert PG. ‘…delectably ghoulish fairy tale’ NY Times
Participate Saturday 19 December 10.30am - 12.30pm £3 adults, 18 and under free
The Nightmare Before Christmas Celebrate Christmas-time in spooktacular style with Tim Burton's delightfully dark Yuletide fable The Nightmare Before Christmas. Bored with the same old scare-and-scream routine, Pumpkin King Jack Skellington gets a new lease of life when he stumbles on Christmastown. He plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus, but discovers that the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry… With festive treats on offer in the merry surroundings of the Howard Assembly Room, this is a deliciously different Christmas outing for all the family.
Puppetry Workshop Have some fiendish fun in this exciting puppetmaking workshop, inspired by Tim Burton’s magical musical fantasy, The Nightmare Before Christmas – then take your creations along to the afternoon film screening. This workshop is suitable for children of all ages and their families.
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Events for families and young people
Co-commissioned and co-produced by The Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Participate Weekly sessions from Mon 7 Sep to Mon 14 Dec* 10.00am-10.45am or 11.15am-12.00pm Per session £6 one child £10 two children £5 each additional child *(excl. 14 & 28 Sep/ 5 &12 Oct / 23 Nov)
Little Voices
Opera North’s Early Years Programme Sing songs, explore instruments, play games and have fun with music in our weekly sessions. Sessions support the development and well-being of children under the age of 4 and their families through wonderful musical experiences and activities. Led by a professional singer, all workshops introduce singing and music-making in a fun and creative environment. Suitable for ages 0-4. To book online please visit: operanorth.co.uk/ education/families
World Premiere
Mark Simpson’s new opera
PLEASURE Librettist Melanie Challenger
Thur 28 & Fri 29 April 2016 7.45pm £15
Starring
Lesley Garrett
Photography: Tom Arber
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Photographs: Richard Dawson (pg 4) by Dawid Laskowski, Borodin Quartet (pg 6-7) by Keith Saunders, Aaron Parks (pg 8) by Bill Douthart, Billy Hart (pg 8) by John Rogers, Vox Luminis (pg 14) by Ola Renska, Musical Rumpus (pg 15) by James Berry, The Tiger Lillies (pg 16 – 17) by Photographic Art, Freddy Kempf (pg 18) by Neda Navaee, Kate Royal (pg 20) by Esther Haase, Emily Portman Trio (pg 21) by Elly Lucas, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (pg 22) by Jim McGuire, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita (pg 25) by Andy Morgan, Mozart Unwrapped (pg 26) by Malcom Johnson, Mark Padmore (pg 27) by Marco Borggreve, The Night before Christmas (pg 29) by Tom Arber, Little Voices (pg 32) by Brian Slater, Pleasure (pg 33) by Tom Arber. Supporter credits: Activities and performances for families supported by The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation. The National Opera Studio residency is supported by a grant for Arts Scholarships from the Leverhulme Trust.
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Retired Over 60, Leeds Card Holders: 10% off Under 30, Full-Time Students: £3 off 18 and under, Pension Credit, JSA, Income Support, Incapacity Benefit, Disabled People: 25% off (essential carer free) Under 30s: Join Opera North’s free Under 30s scheme and receive offers for £10 tickets and exclusive invitations to events. More info: operanorth.co.uk/under-30s All discounts are subject to availability and do not apply to tickets of £7.50 and under. Only one discount per ticket and they cannot be used retrospectively. Proof of status must be shown. Access: Howard Assembly Room is committed to improving access for our audiences and aims to ensure that disabled visitors have an enjoyable experience. We have an infra-red system for visitors with hearing impairments, wheelchair spaces and lift access through Leeds Grand Theatre. We also welcome guide dogs and hearing dogs. Please note that disability concessions and wheelchair spaces cannot be booked online - please call 0844 848 2727 or book in person so Box Office staff can advise on how we can meet your specific access needs. Times displayed are the actual start of the performance.
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September Participate Little Voices 7 onwards Music 18 Richard Dawson & Aşiq Nargile Music 19 Borodin Quartet
Various 7.45pm 7.30pm
October 1 Music 2 Music 4 Music 9 Music 16 Music 17 Film 23 Music 24 Music 29 Music 31 Music
Sain Zahoor 7.45pm Aaron Parks Trio 7.45pm Xiu Xiu 7.45pm Light Night: Parklife 5.30pm - 10.00pm Tigran Hamasyan & Yerevan State Choir 7.45pm Closely Watched Trains 7.45pm Bassekou Kouyate 7.45pm Vox Luminis 7.30pm Musical Rumpus 12.00pm & 2.00pm The Tiger Lillies: Love for Sale 7.45pm
November Music 4 Film 6 Music 7 Music 11 Words 13 Music 14 Music 21 Music 28
Freddy Kempf 7.30pm Mistaken for Strangers 7.45pm Kate Royal & Joseph Middleton 7.30pm Emily Portman Trio 5.45pm Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn 7.45pm Brodsky Quartet 7.15pm Huun-Huur-Tu 7.45pm Mozart Unwrapped 7.15pm
December Music 3 Music 4 Music 18 Participate 19 Film 19
Mark Padmore & Simon Lepper 7.15pm Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita 7.45pm The Night Before Christmas 5.30pm & 7.45pm Puppetry Workshop 10.30am - 12.30pm The Nightmare Before Christmas 1.30pm
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