Monday, 20th May 2013
The Arts
Pupils at Reay Primary School in Oval are working with English Touring Opera on Laika in Lambeth, a sequel to the company’s currently-touring space opera for young people, Laika the Spacedog.
The opera has been devised during a series of workshops with five Key Stage 2 classes, involving the creation of the design, the words, the story and the music of the piece. Children from St Stephen’s, Wyvil and Vauxhall primary schools in Lambeth are also involved in the project.
The production is performed by 175 of the pupils, along with a professional opera singer, cellist and trombonist, and students from the Royal Academy of Music, at the Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre on Tuesday 11 June.
Laika was the mongrel stray discovered in Gorky Park in Moscow and sent into space by the Russians in 1957. She was the first animal to orbit the earth, though in reality she was destined not ...
Imagine the world in the grip of a zombie outbreak. A desperate society would turn to scientists for answers. Beginning on the evening of Wednesday 30 January at Lates and continuing over the weekend of the 2/3 February, ZombieLab will encourage visitors to explore the science of consciousness while evading the zombie horde.
ZombieLab, a free, three day event for ages 15+ at the Science Museum, features over 15 interactive experiences, ...
The Orgelbüchlein Project is a project to complete Bach's unfinished collection of organ miniatures. His manuscript contains titles for 164 chorales, but he only completed 46 of them. One by one, the English organist William Whitehead is commissioning composers from all round the world to fill in the blanks, using the melody Bach intended, but never got round to completing.
The style is completely open; imitation Bach is possible, but most ...
On Tuesday the 25th of September the Royal Albert Hall hosted the launch of the new Tri-borough Music Hub supported by Arts Council England.
The hub, with its strategic partners, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music and Aurora Orchestra, will provide music services to the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham and Westminster City Councils for all children between the ages of 5-18. It will ...
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