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Jazz notes

12:18pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

As your columnist is off on his holiday, Jazz Notes this week offers a short rundown of live jazz over the coming week.

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York Choir and Symphony Orchestra, York Minster, June 20

12:55pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE University of York Choir and Symphony Orchestra will perform Verdi’s Missa da Requiem at York Minster on June 20 at 7.30pm.

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Prima Vocal Ensemble, Grand Opera House, May 25

12:53pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

YORK’S largest community choir, Prima Vocal Ensemble, returns to the Grand Opera House, York, on Saturday with a new show, Puttin’ On The Ritz.

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Review: Jane Siberry, Selby Town Hall, last Saturday.

10:16am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

JANE Siberry slipped into the hall incognito to watch her support act, Bolton folk duo Blackheart. I say “incognito”, but she was in a Princess Grace of Monaco head scarf, not your regulation attire for indoors… in Selby.

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Review: York Guildhall Orchestra/Simon Wright; York Barbican

7:54am Monday 20th May 2013

This marked the end of a saga. Few amateur orchestras could have contemplated such an Everest of the symphonic repertory as a complete Mahler cycle. But the agony-laden opening Adagio of Symphony 10 (the rest was unfinished) brought this remarkable adventure to a close.

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Review: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, York Opera, York Guildhall

8:29am Saturday 18th May 2013

Wildly popular at its 1937 première, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana has remained a staple of the choral repertory ever since, a position cemented by its habitual re-appropriation – it currently frequents montages on The X Factor.

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Funmi Olawumi, The Queen of Lagos!, York Theatre Royal, May 17

2:58pm Thursday 16th May 2013

TRADITIONAL and contemporary Yoruba music combine in the soulful voice of Funmi Olawumi, one of the original members of Queens Of Lagos, founder of the Yoruba Women Choir and leading singer in the Nigerian wedding-party music scene.

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Jazz notes

2:57pm Thursday 16th May 2013

NOW IN its 20th year at the Old White Swan, Goodramgate, jazz is settling back into the larger central room of the pub. Tonight is Bejazzled night, starting at 8pm (01904 540911). The food is going down well too, with bar snacks to supplement the new meals menu.

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2013 York Early Music Festival

2:56pm Thursday 16th May 2013

CALL it foresight, call it serendipity, but the decision to focus on Rome in the 2013 York Early Music Festival could not have been more apt.

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Bob Mould, Leeds Cockpit, May 17

2:02pm Thursday 16th May 2013

BOB Mould will combine old and new in his live set when he opens his four-date spring tour at the Leeds Cockpit tomorrow.

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Soon Amore, St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York, May 18

2:02pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A YORK choir which takes its name from the Welsh words for ‘sound of the sea’ will perform a concert of international music on Saturday.

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Fusion, York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, York, May 18

11:44am Wednesday 15th May 2013

FUSION, a multi-instrumentalist band seeking to break new ground in world music, present their blend of jazz, folk, flamenco, Africa and the East at York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, York, on Saturday night.

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