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Illuminated wonderland will light up city for festival
YORK Museum Gardens will be transformed into a ten-acre illuminated wonderland next week. The ruins of St Mary’s Abbey – recently used as the backdrop for the Mystery Plays – the front of the museum building and part of the walls will also be used
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Review: The Kingfisher
Hazel Pearson Theatre, Middlesbrough College COVENT Garden recently launched ideas designed to attract young people to opera and dispel perceptions that it is for welldressed and well-heeled audiences. Up in Cleveland, composer John Forsyth is
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Review: St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Middlesbrough Town Hall GLINKA’S lively and succinct Overture to his opera Russlan and Ludmilla was a rousing reminder to the not-quite-full Middlesbrough Town Hall audience that the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and its conductor Vladimir Altschuler
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Review: Cleveland Chamber Orchestra
Influence Church, Richmond RICHMONDSHIRE Subscription Concerts began the season with a larger ensemble than usual. Cleveland Chamber orchestra, directed by Tim Jackson, with one of this county’s leading clarinettist’s, Emma Johnson, as soloist
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The names may change, but characteristics remain the same
AS I travel through the Dales in the course of my work, I’m often struck by how each dale is unique but still characteristically “Dales”. The name “the Dales” conjures up images of barns and walls, windswept, heather-clad moorland, hay meadows,
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Shawl tales of Queen Mary’s escape
A MONG the more intriguing features of this region are the wonderful folk tales that continue to be told and written. I find them fascinating because, quite often, they are based on real events even if the passage of history has dimmed memories. It
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Carolyn adds another dimension to photographs of loved ones
WHAT do you get the person who has everything? If the latest craze in North Yorkshire is anything to go by – it’s a 3D photo. Carolyn Collin, a mother of two, from Roecliffe, near Boroughbridge, stumbled upon the concept when her brother gave
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Brace of awards help support region's young musicians
SOWERBY Music has made two awards to young musicians from the area. Peter Chase Awards, funded through the organisation's patron scheme, have gone to Oliver Baily, of Thirsk, who has started a fouryear BMus(Hons) in Performance course at the Royal