Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
After a fallow period of events, the old favourites have returned from their summer break and are coming thick and fast. The latest reappearance is Kirklees Concert Season from Opera North, but more specifically, the Lunchtime Concerts at Dewsbury Town Hall. I discovered these earlier this year, just in time for the end of the…
Read MoreBreaking News!!! Opera North is not just about opera, with sopranos shattering wine glasses when they hit a High C, although I have a conspiracy theory that the bars in opera houses put their booze in plastic containers just in case, they stage lots of other types of concerts as well. A lot of them…
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It was just my luck to discover last year’s Dewsbury Town Hall Lunchtime Concert Season only in time to catch the last one so I had resigned myself to waiting until the end of September for the next. What a pleasant surprise to find out that there was a one-off event to celebrate Summertime on…
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On 23rd February, 2020 I was privileged to be invited to the World Premier of Arya, a work by Leeds Sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun and I was amazed. Not only by the composition, the occasion, and the playing by both Mr Degun and The Orchestra of Opera North, but by the demeanour and humility…
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