Miles Hedley Nov 13, 2020 4 min THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC Online with headline concerts filmed in Blackheath Online arts are playing a vital role in keeping up our spirits and feeding our souls during the Covid lockdown. And while no one would su...
Miles Hedley Oct 26, 2020 3 min CHAMBER MUSIC WEEK FINALE at Blackheath Halls and online It was a daunting task – to cover 900 years of western music from 12th century sacred monophony to 21st century jazz in one afternoon wit...
Miles Hedley Oct 19, 2020 3 min LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC Online, with concerts filmed in Blackheath There’s so much to love about the annual London International Festival of Early Music – amazing musicians, an astonishing array of rare i...
Miles Hedley Oct 7, 2020 2 min A JOURNEY THROUGH THE RAKE’S PROGRESS Blackheath Halls Opera The annual Blackheath Halls Opera is always a highlight of the cultural year in south-east London and it’s also a favourite with readers ...
Miles Hedley Feb 27, 2020 4 min COLAB 2020 in Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford, New Cross and Southwark Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a ...
Miles Hedley Dec 9, 2019 2 min THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET at Blackheath Halls What could be musically more exciting than a live jazz-funk gig? One featuring James Taylor on Hammond organ, that’s what. His show at Bl...
Miles Hedley Nov 10, 2019 2 min LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath If anyone ever doubts the contemporary relevance of what’s played and displayed at the perennially marvellous London International Festiv...
Miles Hedley Oct 25, 2019 2 min SHAPESHIFTER at Blackheath Halls I’m not given to rating events out of 10 but if I had to I wouldn’t hesitate to award Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter and Contemporary Music...
Miles Hedley Jul 17, 2019 2 min LA BELLE HÉLÈNE at Blackheath Halls Get it wrong and comic opera can be a disaster. But get it right, like this year’s sold-out Blackheath Halls opera La Belle Hélène, and i...
Miles Hedley Jun 24, 2019 2 min SWEET CHARITY at Blackheath Halls Sweet Charity has a heck of a musical pedigree – the original director was Bob Fosse, the book was by Neil Simon and the near-perfect son...