Blog posts tagged "Royal Festival Hall"

February 3, 2010 7:19 am 6 Comments

Despite my best efforts, the eleven minute dash on my bike from the studio after last night’s Channel 4 News to London’s Royal Festival Hall, only graced me with the echoes of the last chords of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto. To have missed Daniel Barenboim’s exuberant performance so closely, felt like an act of sacrilege.

April 27, 2009 12:43 pm No Comments

To the Bafta awards. Channel 4 News was nominated for its news coverage. The show is a love/hate thing. Interminably long and normally an absurd cramp up at the London Palladium, then a bus ride to some Park Lane emporium for dinner. A seven-hour marathon, redeemed last night by not being in a west end [...]

April 20, 2009 10:14 am 5 Comments

I emerged emotionally exhausted from what was undoubtedly one of the most incredible musical experiences I have ever had. Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela have been celebrated on every media platform all week. But nothing prepares you for the real thing. The sound, the energy, the scale, the vision, combine [...]