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Howard Assembly Room Sep – Dec 2016

Howard Assembly Room

Spellbinding autumn evenings at the Howard Assembly Room...

ENTRANCED: a series of performances exploring music that transports, hypnotises or heightens consciousness. Â REFLECTIONS: South African politics and the Mahotella Queens; Classic Irish folk and its Dublin street-band counterpart.

CINEMA MACABRO: Celebrating Halloween with two classics of psychological horror.

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Kronos Quartet, May 2016 Photographer Tom Arber

Music Sunday 11 September 7.45pm £17.50

Souad Massi

El-Mutakallimûn | Masters of the Word Raised in pre-civil war Algeria, playing guitar in jeans and trainers, Souad Massi was going to get noticed: firstly fronting a political rock band, then singing solo in Paris after fleeing death threats.

Following a sold-out concert at the Barbican in 2015, Souad Massi comes north for a rare duo show.

Exposing the lyricism and warmth of her extraordinary voice at close quarters, she performs the music of her album El-Mutakallimûn (Masters of the Word), mixing a millennium of Arabic poetry with musical influences including fado and African soul.

‘Algeria’s finest female singer’ The Guardian

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Film Installation

Tragedy

Thursday 15 September 4.30pm & 7.00pm Free, un-ticketed event. Drop in anytime.

Running time 140 mins

Filmed during live performances of Opera North’s recent production of Verdi’s La traviata, Lynne Marsh’s film installation turns the camera’s gaze onto the theatre that exists around the stage itself.

Guided by the music, the film keeps true to the ‘real-time’ of the opera, producing a new narrative composed of its backstage routines.

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Tragedy observes stage managers, technicians, costume dressers, props personnel and performers; revealing the choreography of behind-the-scenes workings, the cultures of the workplace and the ‘grand narratives’ of the opera.

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REFLECTIONS Words Friday 23 September 7.30pm £5

Part of Liberty Lectures 2016, in association with the University of Leeds.

Nicholas Wolpe

A Better Life for All? Power, Politics and the Past in South Africa On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, South Africa and arrested the high command of the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. At the resulting Rivonia Trial, eight men, including Nelson Mandela, were sentenced to life in prison.

Nicholas Wolpe is the founder of the Liliesleaf Trust and son of prominent anti-apartheid activist Harold Wolpe, who was arrested at Liliesleaf. He offers his powerful insight on both this decisive era for South Africa and the political crisis the country finds itself in today, more than 20 years after the first free elections.

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ENTRANCED Music Saturday 24 September 7.45pm £17.50 Save 20%

Tubular Brass plays Tubular Bells One of the all-time great albums, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells is performed live by Tubular Brass, a specially formed 28-piece brass band made up of some of the UK’s leading players. Released in 1973, Tubular Bells famously stayed in the UK charts for 273 weeks, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. This re-imagining of the pioneering sonic masterpiece for brass band is an experience not to be missed.

In the first half of the concert, the ensemble presents Mary Casio, a new commission for brass band and ’70s analogue synthesisers by Hannah Peel, electronic composer, John Foxx collaborator and member of The Magnetic North, who grew up playing in colliery brass bands.

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ENTRANCED Music Wednesday 28 September 7.45pm £15

‘One of the most musically inspiring groups still left on the planet’ Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones

The Master Musicians of Jajouka Led by Bachir Attar

Hailing from the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, The Master Musicians of Jajouka perform the distinctive propulsive rhythms and trance-inducing melodies of Jbala Sufi music, one of the oldest known musical traditions on the planet.

The group’s mind-expanding sound has been sought out by artists as diverse as the Rolling Stones and Ornette Coleman, and is described by film director Jim Jarmusch as ‘a living music... whenever I listen to its hallucinogenic properties, [I believe] that if the Master Musicians of Jajouka were to ever stop the flow of their magic the earth might well stop rotating on its axis.’

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REFLECTIONS Music Thursday 29 September 7.45pm £15

‘In the decades to come, we’ll surely talk of having seen this man in the way others talk of Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix or John Coltrane’ The Irish Times on Martin Hayes

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill Founder of Irish super-group The Gloaming, Martin Hayes’ nuanced and profound approach to the Irish fiddle draws inspiration from many genres, but remains grounded in the music he grew up with in East County Clare.

He plays with long term collaborator and fellow member of The Gloaming, virtuoso guitarist Dennis Cahill. Together, their music represents the vitally beautiful traditional element of The Gloaming’s sound, found in haunting melodies and rousing medleys, whilst creating an alchemy all their own.

Film

On the Waterfront

Friday 30 September 7.30pm £4.50

In the electrifying performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a one time prize-fighter resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss. Nominated for twelve Oscars and winning eight, including Best Actor for Brando and Best Director for Kazan, On the Waterfront remains a haunting portrait of life on the margins.

Dir. Elia Kazan, USA 1954, 103 mins. Cert PG. DARE International Film Series in association with the University of Leeds

This thought-provoking, expertly constructed melodrama is illuminated by Brando’s central performance, which redefined the possibilities of acting for film and helped permanently alter the cinematic landscape.

Shown to accompany Puccini’s Il tabarro on Opera North’s main stage, with an introduction before the film by Professor Paul Cooke, Centenary Chair in World Cinemas from the University of Leeds.

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ENTRANCED Music Friday 7 October 6.00pm – 11.00pm Free, un-ticketed event. Drop in anytime.

Light Night Entranced

A sea of tiny lights, music on all sides. At this year’s Light Night, enter a world in which music has the power to bewitch, enthral and soothe your spirit. From Sufi devotionals to JS Bach, for kora and oud, violin and cello, Entranced threads together transformative music that comes to life all around you.

Sit or lie where you like, stay as long as you like and enjoy a unique Light Night experience as performance steps down from the stage and takes over the Howard Assembly Room.

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Music

Steven Osborne

Thursday 13 October 7.30pm £17.50

Scottish pianist Steven Osborne makes his long- awaited debut at the Howard Assembly Room with a glorious Late Romantic programme that includes Ravel’s Menuet Antique, Debussy’s Children’s Corner and pieces by Poulenc.

Save 20% ‘Osborne's attack is ferocious and fearless, his tenderness beyond words. His self appears subsumed in service to the composer.

This is the best it gets’ The Observer

Having recorded Debussy’s Préludes and the complete solo piano works of Ravel, he deeply understands the music’s formal complexities, and its emotional depths of clarity, colour, and feeling. The result is an interpretive approach that is both technically brilliant and deeply affecting.

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Music Friday 14 October 7.45pm £15 Save 20%

Claudia Aurora Mulher do Norte

Porto-born fadista Claudia Aurora’s second album, Mulher Do Norte, translates from Portuguese as ‘Woman of the North’. Written with the clarity of distance, it is a homage to the city, the way of living, that make her the woman she is.

‘Haunting Portuguese fado... heartbreakingly poignant‘ Time Out

Infused with the tingling beauty so peculiar to fado, her performance of classics and original songs (written with Portuguese guitarist Bernardo Couto) are by turns nimbly lyrical and gorgeously melancholic. Guitar, strings, bouzouki, accordion, and above all Claudia’s voice, combine to create fado with arms open wide to embrace nuances of the other grand traditions of the Iberian Peninsula: flamenco, tango and chanson.

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REFLECTIONS Music Saturday 15 October 7.45pm £15 Save 20% ‘The most convincing folk band to come out of Ireland in years’ The Guardian

Lynched With support

Lynched (named after the founder-members, brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch), is a four-piece punk-folk group from Dublin who mix street-songs and classic ballads in the traveller tradition with wild dance music and nods to psychedelia and rock ’n’ roll.

With an instrumental line-up featuring uilleann pipes, fiddle and bayan (a Russian accordion), the group are famed for their four-part harmony vocals.

Their debut album, Cold Old Fire, drew comparisons to Planxty and The Dubliners while Mark Radcliffe says that ‘They mark a turning point in folk... that authentic voice of the streets is back in a big way.’

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REFLECTIONS Music Wednesday 26 October 7.45pm £15

Mahotella Queens

Music

Flit

In 2015 the legendary South African female vocal ensemble celebrated fifty years of performance, but they show no signs of slowing down. The Queens bring their stirring, rolling Mbaqanga blend of R&B, gospel and traditional styles to Leeds, which for many years dominated the South African townships.

Their distinctive multi-part vocal harmonies combine with guitar-led riffs, searing a capella moments and fast-paced dancing.

Saturday 29 October 7.45pm £15

Pairing masterful musical performances with striking visuals, composer and Lau accordionist Martin Green explores stories of migration through darkly atmospheric songs, within a world of breath-taking stop-motion animation.

Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Mbadu and the newly crowned Queen Amanda Nokuthula Nkosi now represent more than just one generation. Their live show is full of dance, joy and energy and is even more vibrant than ever before.

May contain flashing lights

Co-commissioned

by Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican Centre, Sage Gateshead and Perth International Arts Festival. Co-produced

by Opera North Projects.

Flit is inspired by first-hand stories of human migration, some heart-warming, others heart-breaking. It features lyrics by Karine Polwart, Anaïs Mitchell, Sandy Wright and Aidan Moffat.

Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Mogwai’s Dominic Aitchison and Becky Unthank from The Unthanks join with BAFTA-winning animators whiterobot for this extraordinary live show.

‘Green’s musical architecture is a wonder to behold’ FRoots 16

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CINEMA MACABRO Film Monday 31 October 7.45pm £4.50

Dir. Nicolas Roeg, UK / Italy 1973, 110 mins. Cert 15.

‘One of the definitive mystery chillers of all time...’

Empire Magazine

Don’t Look Now For Halloween, ‘A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural’ (Time Out). Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film is one of the great horror masterpieces, whose creeping fingers of dread, apprehension and psychological trauma create an effect more powerful than straightforward fear.

A married couple (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) are in Venice grieving the recent death of their young daughter when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. Roeg maps Sutherland’s disintegrating psyche onto the labyrinthine alleys and murky canals of Baroque Venice to poignant and devastating effect.

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CINEMA MACABRO Film / Music Friday 4 November 7.45pm £20

Dir. Dario Argento, Italy 1977, 97 mins. Cert 18. ‘as though Hell's demons rented a studio and decided to jam’ Empire

Suspiria

With live score by Goblin Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a classic of lurid Italo-terror and a stone-cold masterpiece. A new student arrives at a ballet school in the Black Forest and quickly discovers that something is very wrong.

Viciously violent and exquisitely shot, with influences as diverse as German Expressionism and Disney, Suspiria is saturated by Goblin’s score for the film, building dreamlike intensity and delicately shredding your nerves.

Goblin, the Italian progressive rock band who recorded the original soundtrack to the film, play it live in their current incarnation, in the perfect Gothic setting for an evening of delicious horror.

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Music Wednesday 2 November 7.45pm £12.50

A co-promotion with Beacons Metro 2016 and the Howard Assembly Room ‘Celestial delicacy and gruesome horror’ The Guardian on Treasure House

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Cat’s Eyes With support

Cat’s Eyes is a duo formed by Faris Badwan, singer from British psychedelic-rockers The Horrors and Rachel Zeffira, an Italian-Canadian operatic soprano and multi-instrumentalist.

While their self-titled debut seemed grown in the dark, the duo’s latest album Treasure House is flooded with light, featuring lush, expansive arrangements and pure voiced vocals with a sinister edge. This is music made in Technicolor on a wide silver screen, by the band whose glorious concoction of Morricone, Nino Rota, and Broadcast’s harpsichord-laden reverie was the soundtrack for Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy. Everything about their music feels cinematic.

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Music Friday 11 November 7.15pm £15 Save 20%

The Hebrides Ensemble and Psappha Transfigured Night

Two of the UK’s foremost contemporary music ensembles join forces for this unique collaborative programme celebrating their joint 25th birthdays.

At its heart is Schoenberg’s bewitchingly intense piece for string sextet, Transfigured Night.

The programme also bids farewell to the late, great British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

With the powerful expressivity of Farewell to Stromness and the kaleidoscopic colours of The Last Island (accompanied here by a new film), they pay tribute to a man whose music has shaped their programming over the last quarter of a century.

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Music Saturday 12 November 7.45pm £20

The Bad Plus

Support: Binker and Moses Iconoclastic jazz trio The Bad Plus came together at the end of the 20th century and have consistently avoided easy categorisation with their creativity, unique sound and gift for joyful live performance.

Based in New York City, they have constantly searched for rules to break, bridging genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of three exceptional musicians working in perfect synchronicity.

The trio play from their new album (released August 2016), weaving ingenious covers into their own uncompromising originals.

They continue to redefine what a jazz piano trio can be.

Early booking highly recommended.

‘if this piano trio wants to play as loud as a rock band; well, let ’em rip... these bad boys have the musicianship to back up their attitude.’ The New Yorker

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Music

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio

Performance

Thursday 17 November 7.15pm £17.50

The approach of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio combines a dynamic, high-energy performance style with evident commitment and profundity.

Saturday 19 November 7.45pm £12

Save 20% ‘their performance was reminiscent of the Beaux Arts Trio in its heyday’ The Independent

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The first half of the evening sees the trio delight with Haydn’s Piano Trio in G major ‘Gypsy’ and Charles Ives’ only Piano Trio.

The trio go on to play Dvorák’s magnificent 4th Piano Trio in E Minor ‘Dumky’; a piece with its heart and soul in central Europe. Rather than a typical four-movement work, the trio is in six parts, each a ‘dumka’ or melancholy folk ballad, which moves from a slow, mournful beginning to a joyful, almost manic, answering section.

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Save 20% ‘A wonderful body of work’ The Guardian Commissioned by Compass Festival

Lone Twin

Last Act of Rebellion Lone Twin, one of the UK’s most distinctive and acclaimed performance companies, celebrates its 20th anniversary. This show springs forth from the mighty playlist of popular song that the company’s Artistic Directors Gary Winters and Gregg Whelan began collecting in 1997: the songs of our time, the songs we carry with us. A diverse series of collaborators have each chosen one song to respond to, creating an outlandish, confounding or hilarious piece for Gary and Gregg to perform.

Last Act of Rebellion: songs that are a little too well known; dances for men in their mid-forties who know no better.

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Music Saturday 26 November 7.15pm £20

‘She is unrivalled: simply the best, most exciting, most galvanising performer we have today’ The Independent In association with Leeds Lieder

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Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton At the heart of this programme, performed by leading British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton, are the characteristics of English song: a powerful sense of place, empathetic observation of nature and pure joy in language.

Connolly brings all her richness of voice and depth of understanding to bear on a programme of Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Roger Quilter, concluding with Benjamin Britten's Charm of Lullabies.

The recital also features the wonderful poems of Hans Christian Andersen in Schumann's Fünf Lieder op.40 and Ravel's song cycle Shéhérazade, based on the heroine of the Arabian Nights.

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Music Saturday 10 December 7.15pm £5

Mozart Unwrapped National Opera Studio 2016

Back by popular demand, the National Opera Studio repeats its sell-out programme of moments from three of Mozart’s finest operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni.

In an exploration of the witty and golden relationship between Mozart’s music and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte’s words, great singers of the next generation perform arias, duets and more, in a semi-staged performance with sparkling direction by Giles Havergal (Opera North’s The Barber of Seville, The Merry Widow, Albert Herring).

The concert will be played by members of the Orchestra of Opera North.

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ENTRANCED Music Wednesday 14 December 7.45pm £15 Save 20% ‘some of the most subtle and remarkable vocal music in Europe.’

The Guardian

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A Filetta

Music

Winter Wonderland

In a very rare UK concert outside London, Corsican male voice choir A Filetta performs a festive programme of traditional song drawing on religious polyphonic song, hymnals, folk songs and occasional dance numbers. Powerfully redolent of their homeland, the six male voices blend seamlessly, with bass running underneath layered harmonies as they rise and fall.

Saturday 17 December 5.30pm & 7.45pm £7.50

Conjure up your Christmas spirit with an atmospheric concert of snow-laden and spellbinding music for the season.

Formed in 1978 to preserve the island’s vocal traditions, A Filetta has forged an international reputation that brings together old and new, including their own original compositions.

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‘A lovely way to end December.’

Audience member

Led by violinist David Le Page, a handpicked group of musicians play beautiful music by composers including Bach and Corelli, together with festive music from Eastern Europe and beyond, in a Howard Assembly Room transformed into a wintry candlelit world.

Banish the darkest days of the year and celebrate the yuletide season in style.

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Film / Music Monday 19 December 7.15pm £6

Dir. Frank Capra, USA 1946, 131 mins. Cert U.

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It’s a Wonderful Life With live music

Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is one of the most heart-warming and popular films ever made.

In the festive Victorian surroundings of the Howard Assembly Room, join James Stewart as George Bailey, a man so beset with problems that he loses all hope on Christmas Eve. This special Christmas event will open with live music at 7.15pm, 30 minutes before the screening starts. Get fully in the mood for yule logs and glad tidings by joining us for an unmissable Christmas experience.

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ENTRANCED Music Tuesday 20 December 7.15pm £25

‘...if the herald angels would leave off their infernal harking and form an earthly choir, then this is probably how they would sound.’

The Guardian

The Tallis Scholars A Renaissance Christmas

In the darkest month of the year, the Tallis Scholars light up the festive season with classic texts associated with Christmas from some of the lesser known master composers of the Renaissance.

The first half pairs one of the most influential motets of its time: Josquin's Praeter rerum seriem, with de Rore’s elaborate mass on the birth of Christ Missa Praeter rerum seriem.

The second half continues the Christmas theme, proceeding through remarkable pieces by Victoria, de Sermisy (a Franco-Flemish composer in the generation after Josquin) and Mexican composer Hernando Franco. The evening culminates with John Taverner's most intricate and splendid antiphon in praise of the Virgin, O splendor gloriae.

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Events for families and young people All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Family

Little Singers

Family

Weekly sessions from Monday 12 September to Monday 12 December 10.15am – 11.00am £5 per child

Fun 45 minute workshops, where adults, tots and babies explore music together. Join us to sing songs, explore instruments, play games and have all manner of musical fun. Refreshments are provided at the end of each session: a perfect opportunity for parents and carers to chat.

Saturday 5 November 10.30am – 12.00pm £5 per child

‘I love bringing my child to Little Singers; the space is beautiful and has a lovely atmosphere. Coming to the sessions has given me more confidence to sing with my child at home.’

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Sessions introduce music and movement at the earliest stages of a child’s life to spark a lifelong connection.

Remember Remember…

A shadow puppetry workshop

Discover the wonders of light and shadow as we create a variety of shadow puppets around an imagined bonfire. Inspired by Bonfire Night, join us for a fun morning of puppet-making, then take your creations out into the city to enjoy the lights of the night.

This workshop is suitable for children of all ages and their families.

Suitable for ages 0-4.

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Photographs: Introduction, Kronos Quartet (pg 2) by Tom Arber, Souad Massi (pg 4) by Jean-Baptiste Millot, Tragedy (pg 6) by Lynne Marsh, Crowd near the Drill Hall on the opening day of the Treason Trial (pg 7) Eli Weinberg/Times Media Collection/Museum Africa, Johannesburg, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill (p10) by Jordan Koepke, Steven Osborne (pg 13)

by Ben Ealovega, Lynched (pg 15) by Brian Flanagan, Flit (pg 17) by Genevieve Stevenson, The Bad Plus (pg 22) by Cameron Wittig, the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio (pg 24) by Alan Kerr, Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton (pg 26) by Peter Warren, Mozart Unwrapped (pg 27) by Malcolm Johnson, A Filetta (pg 28) by Didier D. Daarwin - AKA Design, Winter Wonderland (pg 29)

by Tom Arber, The Tallis Scholars (pg 31) by Eric Richmond, Little Singers (pg 32) 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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September

Music 11 Film 15 Words 23 Music 24 28 Music 29 Music 30 Film

Souad Massi 7.45pm Tragedy 4.30pm & 7.00pm Nicholas Wolpe 7.30pm Tubular Brass plays Tubular Bells 7.45pm The Master Musicians of Jajouka 7.45pm Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill 7.45pm On the Waterfront 7.30pm

October 7 Light Night 6.00pm Music 13 Steven Osborne 7.30pm Music 14 Claudia Aurora 7.45pm Music 15 Lynched 7.45pm Music 26

Mahotella Queens 7.45pm Music 29 Flit 7.45pm Music 31 Don’t Look Now 7.45pm Film

November 2 Cat’s Eyes 7.45pm Music 4 7.45pm Film / Music Suspiria 5 Remember Remember 10.30am Family 11 The Hebrides Ensemble and Psappha 7.15pm Music 12 The Bad Plus 7.45pm Music 17

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio 7.15pm Music 19 Performance Lone Twin 7.45pm 26 Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton 7.15pm Music

December 10 Music 14 Music 17 Music 19 Film / Music 20

Music

Mozart Unwrapped 7.15pm A Filetta 7.45pm Winter Wonderland 5.30pm & 7.30pm It’s a Wonderful Life 7.15pm The Tallis Scholars 7.15pm

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