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Sun, May 2, 2021, 06:00
Sunday, BBC1, 7pm Fiona Bruce presents a special episode reflecting on the aftermath of the second World War. The team have certainly found a fitting setting: Coventry Cathedral, devastated by bombs in 1940 but rebuilt to become a symbol of hope and reconciliation. The programme hears from a woman who witnessed the city’s blitz first-hand, while the items brought in for valuation include a ballgown and a set of handmade playing cards that offer a glimpse into the final days of the war in the Far East. There’s also a fragile teacup that survived the bombing of Dresden.
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VOCES8 appear at the 2021 Proms at St Jude s festival in Hampstead Garden Suburb
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After switching to a virtual event last year, the Proms at St Jude’s Festival is back this June with a nine day live programme of music and lit-talks.
First to be announced are performances by baritone Roderick Williams, saxophonist Jess Gillam, and talented siblings Braimah and Konya Kanneh Mason at Hampstead Garden Suburb s St Jude s Church.
Starting on June 26, the community festival, which raises funds for good causes, also includes Shakespeare at the Opera by Hampstead Garden Opera, a teeny prom for the under fives, and a family concert themed around the stories of Roald Dahl.
Elegy: Snow in June. View here.
Friday, April 30
12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents
Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s
Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s
Reverie, and Kreisler’s
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents
Daniel Harding Conducts. Daniel Harding conducts the Concertgebouworkest in Stravinsky’s
SOLACE, escape and hope are at the heart of Ryedale Festival’s online Spring Festival, which marks the start of its 40th anniversary year. Seven inspiring performances, each approximately 50 minutes, will be filmed and shared over a week in early May, in collaboration with Castle Howard, the Yorkshire Arboretum and award-winning filmmaker Cain Scrimgeour, whose stunning camerawork will capture spring’s arrival in Yorkshire. To celebrate its anniversary, the festival will reveal 40 headline events in one-off, late-announced bursts, which allows it to remain responsive to the unique circumstances of 2021 and as creative and flexible as possible. Spring Festival launches on Sunday, May 2, with the duo Michael Collins (clarinet) and Michael McHale (piano) playing Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, a virtuoso showpiece by Widor, and the spellbinding sonata that Poulenc composed for Benny Goodman.