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Culture & Entertainment E: andrew@myvillage.co.uk
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| What's Happening?
01/08/01 |
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The Royal
Albert Hall gears up for the Proms, book up for open air
Opera in Holland Park,
read about Olly
& Suzi's Natural History Museum exhibition, check Out
What's Showing at your Local Cinema
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Feature: Kids Week in the West
End - 24th to 31st August 2001 |
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Thousands of tickets to top London theatres, from
musicals to plays are being given away for Kids Week in the West
End, plus a host of exciting events guaranteed to give the theatre
bug to kids of all ages.
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more
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Review:
Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design at the Design Museum |
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Born
in Los Angeles in 1904 to a Japanese father and American mother,
Isamu Noguchi throughout his life bridged the artistic traditions
of the East and West.
The
exhibition Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design at the Design
Museumsets out to introduce us to the astonishing range of his output,
spanning over half of the last century.
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| News:
The Proms Begin - 21/07/01 |
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Britain meets America in this year's opening concert,
which includes one of the greatest popular concertos and a contemporary
choral classic.
John Adams's Harmonium brings together texts by
the Englishman John Donne and the American Emily Dickinson. The
original overture to Benjamin Britten's early operetta, written
during his self-imposed wartime exile in the New World, is heard
for the first time at the Proms, in Colin Matthews's scoring.Matthews
himself provides the opening flourish to this year's season with
a specially commissioned fanfare.
A host of leading young singers perform Vaughan
Williams's Serenade to Music (written for Henry Wood) to welcome
Leonard Slatkin to his first Proms season as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's
new Chief Conductor. Guy Johnston, who memorably won BBC Young Musicians
2000, performs Elgar's evergreen Cello Concerto.
read about
the Proms 2001
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Interview: MyVillage interview Olly & Suzy |
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Olly
& Suzi are outdoorsy types who like to make their art in deserts,
or under tropical seas or on ice-caps, rather than in Hoxton or
Bow. They follow scientists around for advice about when the best
time is to get the shark to bite their shark painting, or how to
persuade the wolves to come and leave their paw prints on the wolf
painting ...
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Review: Review of Bill Viola by Helen Crump |
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Bill
Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium and other new works
Until 21 July
Bill
Viola's work with the moving image has established him as one of the
world's leading video based artists. His current exhibition employs
new plasma screen technology, adapting traditional forms to a contemporary
medium and then challenging the way in which these images are processed
by their viewer.
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Feature: Sir John Soane's Museum |
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The house of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), one of
England's greatest architects, is a magical showcase of architectural
brilliance, invaluable collections and an eccentric mind.
MyWestend editor Lisa Bjurwald takes a journey
into one of London's greatest architectural treasures.
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Interview: MyVillage Meets Author Tim Lott -
05/01 |
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"I think I became a writer because
I had failed at everything else really. I just got bullied into it
by life."
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| Museums
& Galleries: Welcome
to Albertropolis |
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Kensington has perhaps the richest array of museums
and galleries in the UK, including The Natural History Museum, The
Science Museum, The V&A and the Serpentine Gallery. For casual
visitors to experts there is something for everyone.
read full listings,
news and features on all venues in Museums & Galleries
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| Cinemas:
Showing Now |
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Listings of all the latest films showing at Odeon
Kensington, the Gate Cinema and The Coronet.
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| Performance
& Theatre: The UK's Town Hall
- The Royal Albert Hall |
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The Royal Albert Hall is easily the most famous
of Kensington's performance venues. Over the years nearly every
performer and group has taken to the stage in its fabulous circular
auditorium. It is also the home of the yearly series of summer concerts
The Proms.
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more
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