Alessio Bax at Howard Assembly Room on 14 May
Alessio Bax: Concert (14th May) and Masterclass with the Lang Lang Foundation Scholars (15th), Howard Assembly Room. An almost unbelievably good concert is made more delightful by the addition of an intimate, hugely educational, and inspiring masterclass. This week it was Leeds’ great honour and privilege to host the incredible pianist Alessio Bax for an […]
Leeds International Festival – Salomé
Salomé with live score by Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux, Howard Assembly Room, Sat 12th May 2018. A Leeds International Festival event. A very fine film has a rare screening damaged by an unsympathetic (and unnecessary) musical treatment. The streets of Leeds were curiously quiet (for a Saturday evening in May) as I went […]
Las Hermanas, Concerto, Gloria: Three Ballets in Honour of Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Three short ballets by Sir Kenneth MacMillan give an evening of variety executed by the finest dancers, designers and musicians. This evening—part of the broader celebration of the work of Sir Kenneth MacMillan taking place virtually everywhere in the world of ballet—brought together three highly contrasting pieces devised by the master choreographer. As a tribute, […]
Louis Lortie, Howard Assembly Room, 2nd March 2018
A flawless performance leaves a Leeds’ audience mesmerised and enchanted. Louis Lortie is not one for indulgences: his programme consists of only two behemoth pieces: Schubert’s Sonate in G, D. 894 and Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, Livre II: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage, Book II: Italy). A slight programme, perhaps: where other pianists might give us […]
All About My Mother, 15th Feb 2018, Howard Assembly Room
Charles Eager enjoys a stimulating film which he found was only slightly marred by cinema whisperers and a questionable political angle on the part of the organisers. All About My Mother (or Todo sobre mi madre, 1999) is a curious tale of a single mother and her son, who at eighteen dreams of being a writer. Or […]
