Inspired by larks flying across East End marshes, a 12-metre mobile is installed at Stratford Westfield to bring a sense of joy to the shopping centre
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The coming together in 1908 of the prototypically English Ralph Vaughan Williams and the quintessentially French Maurice Ravel, perhaps surprisingly engendered a true entente cordiale... more
Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms.... more
He has been out of fashion for more than 50 years, but now composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's vision of Englishness is being celebrated once again.... more
A special episode of Dr Who, written by Russell T Davies and presented by Freema Agyeman, is to be screened at the Albert Hall as part of the BBC concert series.... more
War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
From the slightly twee to the meticulously crafted, this playful and fantasy filled homage to Vaughan Williams at the proms holds its head very high.... more
The Royal Shakespeare Company has embarked on an expensive gamble by inflicting this flamboyantly awful, musical version of The Merry Wives Of Windsor upon us, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
For half a century the RVW Trust has helped the careers of young, upcoming composers and its invaluable work was celebrated in a 50th Anniversary Concert.... more
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