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From his massive 2012 tour ‘What’s Happening White People?’ join Paul Chowdhry live and uncensored from his huge sell-out show at the legendary Hammersmith Apollo. Paul dissects all the issues of growing up and living in multicultural Britain with his own brand of edgy and highly charged comedy. From reusing margarine tubs to passive racism to breaking down racial barriers, there are no holds barred and nothing is left unturned as Paul tackles...
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Award winning comedian, actor, screenwriter and presenter Simon Amstell puts his emotions on the line in this very special performance of his stand-up show, Numb, which he has toured round the UK and taken to New York. Recorded at the famous BBC TV Centre, it’s a stripped-down, intimate performance, as he reflects on his inability to connect with people, including family and lovers. Amstell attempts to heal himself in public in a raw and honest...
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Award-winning and Bafta-nominated comedian Romesh Ranganathan performs in front of a sell-out audience at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The 'Asian Provocateur' takes shots at everyone, from his kids to a stranger in a coffee shop, as he explores the rationality of his world view and explains why everybody else is wrong.
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For the young producer Norman Granz, the signing of Charlie Parker to the Mercury label was a real coup. The saxophonist had been thinking for some years about the opportunity to record music outside his usual quintet. The “Charlie Parker with Strings” project was an old dream of his that he realized in 1949. With an oboe, a few violins, a viola, a cello, a harp, a piano, a double bass and drums, he gave a new sound to classics of the 1930s like...
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Ron Carter, surrounded by Rene Rosnes on piano, Jimmy Greene on tenor saxophone and Payton Crossley on drums, make up the Ron Carter New Foursight Quartet. This concert is a declaration of love to Miles Davis. On the program are pieces from his tribute album Dear Miles (2006) as well as works written by Davis himself: "Flamenco Skeches", "Seven Steps To Heaven".
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Filmed at Sydney's Carriageworks, the Australian Chamber Orchestra take us on an exquisitely beautiful and moving journey. Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009 by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, the violin sings a song to the glory of love through emotional highs and lows. Such balancing of melancholy and light also underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s...
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It's only fair that the drummer who invented Afrobeat pays tribute to the drummer who invented hard bop. For the last few years that Tony Allen has been enjoying a second youth in Paris and elsewhere, we have tended to forget that his very particular style, of touching and pounding, comes as much from his African and Nigerian sources as from the rhythmic boppers that were Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, and, in particular, Art Blakey.
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This exciting mix of essential Berlioz masterpieces will be showcased in a variety of different programmes at prestigious venues in both Europe and the US, including concert halls in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Versailles. A world-class roster of acclaimed soloists will join the orchestra for these much-anticipated performances including French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot (La mort de Cléopâtre, excerpts from Les Troyens).
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Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this fiesta celebrated by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the “underworld” of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a wonderful, ancient tradition.
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As part of the Valletta International Baroque Festival, an event entirely in keeping with the identity and the baroque architecture of the city, the ensemble of musicians and singers has chosen to introduce us to motets, musical compositions of one or more voices written from a text, sacred or secular. He plays the Te Deum composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, played for the first time in 1699.
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Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of customers every night of the week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is often vilified, misunderstood, and left out of history. By telling intimate, surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, BEHIND THE BURLY Q reveals the true story of burlesque,...
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"Whether it be music, dance, cinematography, costume design, or many other choices, students interested in a career in theatre and the performing arts have an incredibly wide variety of options to choose from when selecting a career path. Careers in the Arts: Fine, Performing & Visual is designed to provide need-to-know information on the various careers in this popular field. Careers in the Arts: Fine, Performing & Visual provides detailed information...
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