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Article: REVIEW: Treading familiar and new paths; CULTURE CBSO, Michal ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Centre Stage programme of chamber-scale events at the CBSO Centre continues to provide unique experiences for Birmingham ... while the core repertoire is constantly renewed at Symphony Hall. Pol ish conductor Michal Dworzynski made Thursday ...

Article: A masterpiece of adolescent self-delusion; Julian Pike and John ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 3, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... ideas off each other, the tenor explained to an enthralled CBSO Centre audience how all the emotional colouring in this sad tale ... blockbuster Belshazzar's Feast, performed to a well-filled Symphony Hall by University of Birmingham Music Society forces under the ...

Article: VISUAL ARTS: Introspection rarely sounded so good; CULTURE in ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  December 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... music. Compensating joyousness should have reigned supreme on Saturday, when the Christmas Oratorio by Bach was given at Symphony Hall by a full-throated Birmingham Bach Choir under Paul Spicer. Actually we only heard Parts 1, 2, 3 and 6, though ample ...

Article: Culture: Best in the local scene; Shabaka Hutchings Quintet / ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 15, 2004 ;     494 words ...Byline: Martin Longley The free Birmingham Jazz commuter sessions have finally found a new home in Symphony Hall's bar. There is now a captive audience of the pre-concert curious, being confronted by the best players on the local jazz ...

Article: Culture: Klais organ takes centre stage; CLASSICAL CONCERT ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Christopher Morley We waited so long for Symphony Hall to have a proper organ installed, and now it's already five years since that momentous event happened. Friday's concert celebrating ...

Article: Arts Etc: The critics: CLASSICAL: A reminder: to compose is to ...
The Independent on Sunday;  June 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Here's a little test. Is Floof! (a) a cleaning product, (b) the sound made by an asthmatic kitten, (c) a suburb of Helsinki, or (d) a new festival of contemporary music that, in a city completely saturated with this stuff, can still attract an audience more diverse in age and ethnicity than any

Article: Sustained emotional intensity; BCMG - CBSO Centre ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... modalities. And it was Tudor music which furnished the first half of the Tallis Scholars' well-attended return visit to Symphony Hall on Saturday. But these performances of works by William Byrd seemed more concerned with conveying the prowess of Peter Philips ...