Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Now that Christmas and New Year are over and most of us are back at work I am sure that we would love something to look forward to to take our minds off a dull January and give a warm glow. What is this I see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!…
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Having been through the gamut of Christmas events on offer in Leeds it was time to indulge in the New Year Festivities, albeit a couple of days early. I never turn down an invitation to see and hear the wonderful Orchestra of Opera North, if I am totally honest I rarely turn down any invitation,…
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On Sunday I went to the Relaxed Performance of Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman. Normally this would have been my idea of torture but I loved every minute of it. I had kindly been invited by Opera North to see the programme and decided that the 4.30pm conventional performance would be just the…
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Christmas 1965, and I was given the newly released album Rubber Soul by The Beatles. Side One, Track Two, Norwegian Wood and a sound that very few of us had heard before, it was George Harrison playing the sitar, an Indian instrument which he had discovered on his spiritual trips, and I use the word…
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This year the Grand Theatre is presenting Cinderella. No, not the pantomime but the Leeds-based Northern Ballet production choreographed by David Nixon OBE, it should be magic! (There’s a joke for the more mature reader.) I think that we all know that the story of Cinderella is one of rags to riches in which a…
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This December Opera North has come together, from the youngest performers in the Children’s Chorus to the more ‘mature’ artists in the company, to present a richly varied Christmas programme with events being held all over the region. The highlights of the Christmas presentations are: The Nutcracker and The Snowman with the Orchestra of Opera…
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Tyke It To The Limit 