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19 May 2021 • 10:30pm
Commuters are on track for the return of British Rail as state control of the railways becomes the tightest since the days of nationalisation.
A publicly owned body, Great British Railways, will be formed to centralise operations, bringing track and trains under the control of one body once again in the biggest shake-up of the industry in more than a quarter of a century.
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Rachel Miller and the KSO in rehearsal.
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The concert, which was recorded under COVID-19 guidelines at Comstock High School Auditorium, opens with an opera overture by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a French nobleman and a Senegalese slave who became an accomplished violinist, composer, swordsman and military leader in 18th century France. Rachel Miller, the KSO s principal harpist since 2018, is featured in Debussy s
Danses sacrée et profane. She says it is one of the best-known pieces in the harp repertoire, and a challenging one. Daniel Brier highlights the connections between Debussy s sound-world and that of Wagner s