LONDON & INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC in and around Blackheath Halls
There’s a beguiling paradox at the heart of the annual London International Festival of Early Music – an unfailing ability to give a...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 28
- 2 min
CANDIDE by Blackheath Halls Opera
Singing an exacting aria is a tough ask on its own but to do it while clowning is surely near-impossible. Yet that is the challenge...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 18
- 3 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels
Music has a unique quality among the arts – it thrives when its present embraces its past. Painting, literature, film and architecture...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 14
- 2 min
STROZZI! at Blackheath Halls
Barbara Strozzi is one of those composers who isn’t known nearly well enough, primarily because society has such a shocking history of...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 14
- 3 min
SUMMER PROGRAMME at Trinity Laban
An amazing array of public performances is on offer in this year’s Trinity Laban summer programme - legendary names in dance, beloved...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 28
- 3 min
COLAB 2022 at St Alfege’s, Old Royal Naval College and Blackheath Halls
One of the most beguiling aspects of CoLab, the annual festival of musical exploration driven and performed by Trinity Laban students, is...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 19
- 2 min
EACH ONE CANCELS THE LAST (HECTOR) at Blackheath Halls
We live in a world where knowledge is power, where we know so much. But we should never underestimate the power of the mysterious, for it...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
THE 12 DAYS (AND NIGHTS) OF CHRISTMAS in and around Greenwich
1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 14, 2021
- 4 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels
The odds on this year’s London International Festival Of Early Music returning to Blackheath as a live event must have seemed at times...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Blackheath Halls
Any concert by Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra will always be memorable for the awesome musicianship of its young members. If it’s then...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels
After a year performing miracles in cyberspace, the annual wonder that is the London International Festival of Early Music returns to...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
NEW SEASON at Trinity Laban + Blackheath Halls
As the world of culture begins tentatively to open up again, Trinity Laban has announced a packed programme of performances to suit every...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
COLAB 2021 online at Trinity Laban
Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
BUDAPEST CAFÉ ORCHESTRA at Blackheath Halls
If you want a quick-fire guide to world music the Budapest Café Orchestra is just the ticket. In a 90-minute set at Blackheath Halls the...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 8, 2019
- 2 min
ALBERT LEE at Blackheath Halls
He may be 75 but guitar genius Albert Lee shows no signs of slowing up, either in his touring and studio schedule or – as those of us...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
COLAB 2019 across south-east London
A drag queen outSummering Donna Summer, a Dutch jazz trio jamming with Donald Trump, a Brahms’ hymn and an anti-Brexit rant set to Handel...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 8, 2019
- 2 min
SHAPESHIFTER: VENUS BLAZING at Blackheath Halls
Trinity Laban is right in the middle of a season of concerts celebrating women composers. The series is called Venus Blazing, the title...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 10, 2018
- 2 min
EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL at Blackheath Halls
The annual International Early Music Festival returned to newly revamped Blackheath Halls this year with its usual array of the unusual....
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 8, 2018
- 1 min
BUTTERFLY’S WING at Blackheath Halls
The children of jazz legends who choose to follow in their parents’ footsteps have to face a lifetime of comparisons, often to their...
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