Barbican
Efterklang with the Northern Sinfonia/John Grant, BarbicanWednesday, 31 October 2012
It’s not quite Iggy Pop strutting across the hands of the crowd, but Efterklang’s singer Casper Clausen's departure from the stage reinforces the bond the Danish mood musicians have with their fans. Trying to keep upright while wobbling on the backs... Read more... |
Chilly Gonzales, BBCSO, Barbican HallSunday, 21 October 2012
Chilly Gonzales is a self-mythologising huckster, a throwback to a vaudevillian tradition of entertainer. He’s had enormous success producing the likes of Feist, is in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest solo piano concert (over 27 hours),... Read more... |
Leopold Trio, BBCSO, Wigglesworth, Barbican HallSaturday, 20 October 2012
The prospect of adventuring from one unpredictable day to the next in the course of Michael Tippett’s Triple Concerto, and from dawn to twilight in just over an hour’s orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring, seemed very much weighted in the English... Read more... |
Rambert Dance, Sadler's Wells/ Michael Clark Company, Barbican TheatreFriday, 19 October 2012
Waves of modern dance history beat upon the shore this week with Rambert at Sadler’s Wells offering four works going back nearly 40 years, and Michael Clark’s newest Britdance creation at the Barbican. The hip people will be at the Barbican, of... Read more... |
Suzanne Vega, Barbican HallWednesday, 17 October 2012
This year it’s been all about 50th anniversaries. If 1962 was a cultural foundation stone, it’s unlikely that 1987 will inspire quite so much in the way of plaques and bunting. It is, however, 25 years since Suzanne Vega released her definitive... Read more... |
Transcender Festival 2012, BarbicanMonday, 01 October 2012
The Barbican Centre’s Transcender Festival celebrated its fourth anniversary in 2012 and deserves to be recognised as one of the UK’s most culturally radical and engaging music events. Transcender grew out of the Barbican’s previous festival Ramadan... Read more... |
Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev, BarbicanSunday, 23 September 2012
Janine Jansen had every right to be nervous. The last time most of us saw the London Symphony Orchestra the audience spent the whole time laughing at their star soloist. But then Mr Bean has a very different skill set to Jansen. She's able to... Read more... |
Mademoiselle Julie, Barbican TheatreFriday, 21 September 2012
Let one visual artist and one fashion designer loose on a theatre production and you may find both set and costumes upstaging the actors. Laurent P. Berger has designed a Miers Van der Rohe-type modernist glass box, with luxurious white surfaces and... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican GalleryFriday, 14 September 2012
Take the day, and a stiff drink afterwards, as you’ll need it for this thoughtful and deeply disturbing exhibition. A picture, goes the cliché, is worth a thousand words, and nowhere more so than in this heartbreaking, beautiful and affecting... Read more... |
Full programme announced for 2012 London Jazz FestivalThursday, 13 September 2012The full programme for this year's London Jazz Festival has been announced. Running from Friday 9 to Sunday 18 November, the 10-day event includes premieres, talks, family events, films and workshops. In total, there are over 250 shows in... Read more... |
Barbican Centre, 2012-13 SeasonWednesday, 01 August 2012
The autumn 2012 season at the Barbican Centre offers an international history of photography, Juliette Binoche in Strindberg, a train packed with African music, a festival of ecstatic, devotional and psychedelic music, and a film made by London... Read more... |
Swing Symphony, BarbicanThursday, 26 July 2012
The UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Swing Symphony (Symphony No 3) last night was extraordinary on several counts. We heard, first and foremost, a real dialogue between jazz band and orchestra. Not one of those fist-bitingly cornball jazz... Read more... |
