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London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Thursday 1 July 2010
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John Adams: Shaker Loops
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No.1
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Ravi Shankar: Symphony (World premiere)
David Murphy conductor
Robert McDuffie violin
Indian Ensemble
Ravi Shankar has been edging towards the creation of a symphony for decades: first came his virtuosic duets for sitar and violin written for performance with Yehudi Menuhin, then came the two thematically accomplished Concertos for Sitar and Orchestra.
After years of collaboration with Philip Glass, the two composers are heard together here: the pulsating, lyrical groove of Glass’ first Violin Concerto meets the world’s first performance of Shankar’s Symphony, which explores both the rich melodic heritage and the mathematical precision of Indian music and is an event of huge significance for world music.
Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm - An introduction to the music of Ravi Shankar. Admission free.
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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 2009/10
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 10 April 2010
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony has proved many things to many people: a celebratory vision of a rustic wedding for Robert Schumann; ‘the apotheosis of the dance’ for Richard Wagner; ‘a triumph of Bac
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Wednesday 14 April 2010
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Royal Festival Hall
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An evening of music featuring premieres by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass.
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 21 April 2010
A concert in celebration of Leonard Bernstein.
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 28 April 2010
As Russia lurched into turbulence in the early 1900s, the young composer Nikolai Myaskovsky had a ringside seat as a serving officer.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 1 May 2010
Franz Liszt: virtuoso, mystic, visionary, celebrity, and architect of new musical forms. But above all, Liszt was an entertainer.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 7 May 2010
Tchaikovsky's heartrending symphonic fantasy 'Francesca da Rimini' is a moving slice of semi-conscious musical autobiography: Tchaikovsky was no stranger to unhappiness in love, and in his musical
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 8 May 2010
Fasten your seat belts as the LPO join seven composers hit with the travel bug, in this special concert for children.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra: Foyle Future Firsts
Friday 14 May 2010
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Saturday 22 May 2010
Two works of blazing, passionate genius that seem to hail from opposite ends of the orchestral universe: Richard Strauss’s Don Juan is a multisectioned rollercoaster ride, lunging from key to key,
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 28 May 2010
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Royal Festival Hall
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Wednesday 23 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
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Robin Ince's Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
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Robin Ince's Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People is an award-winning, sell-out smash that mixes comedians, scientists and musicians.
Festival Terrace
Pterosaurs: Dragons of the Air
Friday 25 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Pterosaurs are taking over Southbank Centre! 200 years of research has uncovered more than 100 different species of pterosaur ranging in size from a sparrow to a Spitfire aeroplane.
Royal Festival Hall
Friday 25 June 2010
The world premiere of a unique and very special presentation of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece 2001 A Space Odyssey with live music.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 25 June 2010 - Saturday 26 June 2010
The entire world really does become a stage in the UK premiere of Continuous City, a new multi-media theatre experience by New York's critically acclaimed The Builder's Association.
Purcell Room
Friday 25 June 2010 - Sunday 27 June 2010
Join the team from BBC One's Bang Goes The Theory as they explore, stretch and explode science live on stage.
Southbank Centre Square
BBC One Bang Goes the Theory Interactive Area
Friday 25 June 2010 - Sunday 27 June 2010
BBC One's Bang Goes the Theory gives you the chance to get hands-on with science in their amazing Interactive Area located on Southbank Centre Square.
Royal Festival Hall
They Might Be Giants Family Concert
Saturday 26 June 2010
American alt-rockers and multi-Grammy award winners They Might be Giants perform their new album Here Comes Science and old favourites in their long-awaited return to the UK.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 26 June 2010
They Might Be Giants play their long-awaited return to the UK at Royal Festival Hall.
The Clore Ballroom
The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition
Saturday 26 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Meet the minds behind some of the UK's most exciting scientific advances at The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition.
Festival Riverside Level 1
Saturday 26 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Don’t miss our science buskers, out and about on the Riverside Terrace.
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Our Cosmic Origins: building the Milky Way
Saturday 26 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has been 13 billion years in the making. Computer simulations help explain how it was built, starting from the Big Bang.
The Front Room at QEH
Saturday 26 June 2010 - Saturday 3 July 2010
Join scientists, artists and writers to discuss the interesting, the unusual or provocative in science and culture over a cup of coffee or drink.
E4 Udderbelly
Sunday 27 June 2010 - Monday 28 June 2010
Presenter, writer and adventurer, Ben Fogle has raced 160 miles across the Sahara desert in the notorious Marathon Des Sables, rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossed Antarctica in a foot r
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 28 June 2010 - Wednesday 30 June 2010
The capacity for culture is a product of biological evolution - yet culture itself can also evolve, generating cultural phylogenies.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 28 June 2010
In the past 25 years our use of technology has increased at an unprecedented rate, affecting our way of life and how we function in society. What's next?
Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Tuesday 29 June 2010
The culmination concert of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Young Composers Academy, supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society, sees three new works from three young composers being performed.
Purcell Room
Tuesday 29 June 2010
The word 'culture' means different things to different people. It can relate to a social activity on a Saturday night but also to a form of social behaviour passed on over thousands of years.
Southbank Centre
Walking the Science of the City
Wednesday 30 June 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
With its bustling streets, green parks and rich history around every corner, London always has plenty to catch your eye. What is not so well known is the science that keeps the city alive.
Royal Festival Hall
Through the stars and beyond: Southwark Splash 2010
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Join an intrepid company of 400 young singers, actors, dancers, musicians, designers and scientists from 20 Southwark schools on an incredible journey.
Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 1 July 2010
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Purcell Room
Thursday 1 July 2010
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 1 July 2010
Tomorrow's Giants brings together scientists and policy-makers to gather scientists' visions of the next 50 years.
Purcell Room
Friday 2 July 2010
Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University makes a rare appearance in the UK, delivering a special illustrated talk accessible for all, on unified theories and parall
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Friday 2 July 2010
A gay man, Alan Turing, was the godfather of the computer age. In turn, computers have had a radical impact on modern gay people, enabling us to communicate, campaign and cop off as never before.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 3 July 2010
Marcus du Sautoy, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, gives this special lecture on the relationship between maths and music.
Purcell Room
Saturday 3 July 2010
We all share a desire for self-improvement - the desire to be perfect.
Purcell Room
Saturday 3 July 2010
Advances in biomedical sciences mean the human body is becoming ever more adaptable.
Purcell Room
Saturday 3 July 2010
Do machines express the human ideals of perfection? This event explores the essential nature of the machines we have created, from cars to mobile phones to robots.
Poetry Library Foyer
Define a slithy tove... Imagine a foraminiferal shell...
Saturday 3 July 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Discover the science of words and the words of science in a weekend filled with performance, poetry and play.
Purcell Room
Francesca Martinez and Mike Gunn
Saturday 3 July 2010
In this groundbreaking double bill, 'wobbly' stand up Francesca Martinez (she hates the term cerebral palsy!) joins forces with ex-heroin addict and comic Mike Gunn for a night of revelry and revel
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 3 July 2010 - Saturday 3 July 2010
A smash-hit at two Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Visualise Reloaded is a mischievous mix of physical theatre, live science demonstrations, projected images and music.
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 3 July 2010
Based on Icarus at the Edge of Time, the stunning book for children written by the world-renowned physicist Brian Greene, this is a futuristic reimagining of the classic Greek myth with cutting-edg
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Gabriel Weston, Adam Foulds and Samantha Harvey
Sunday 4 July 2010
Gabriel Weston, Adam Foulds and Samantha Harvey are three writers who explore the relationship between science, psychiatry and art.
Royal Festival Hall
Festo AirPenguins and AirJelly
Sunday 4 July 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
Come and marvel at the mechanical penguins and jellyfish as they swim through the auditorium of Royal Festival Hall.
Riverside Terrace
Sunday 4 July 2010
Flood Tide is a live musical performance generated by the flow of the River Thames.
Royal Festival Hall
Icarus at the Edge of Time Family Performance
Sunday 4 July 2010 - Sunday 4 July 2010
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Purcell Room
Population: Lemn Sissay, Gary Crosby & Peter Edwards
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In an evening where poetry meets jazz, Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Lemn Sissay comes together with jazz double bassist Gary Crosby and members from the Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra u
St. Paul’s Pavilion
When it Changed: New Science Fiction
Sunday 4 July 2010
How much science fiction is based on fact and what happens when writers work with scientists to create new stories?
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The Clore Ballroom
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Tue 23 Mar 10
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Purcell Room
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