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Purcell Room
Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley
Thursday 18 March 2010
Author Ian McEwan and composer Michael Berkeley discuss their artistic collaboration on the opera For You and reveal plans for a forthcoming opera based on Atonement.
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The Clore Ballroom
The West Side Story Experience: Part 4
Sunday 21 March 2010
A day of musical theatre workshops led by leading voice coach Mary King and top theatre choreographers.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 21 March 2010
Renowned filmmaker and broadcaster Christopher Nupen shares his films and memories of Jacqueline du Pre from a close friendship that lasted for 26 years.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 30 March 2010
James Lovelock is one of the world's leading thinkers on climate.
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The Clore Ballroom
Harmonie Concert Band & Lewisham Concert Band Double Bill
Saturday 10 April 2010
Two of the South East's most highly regarded wind bands come together for a concert celebrating some of Bernstein's most well known and lesser known repertoires and influences.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Friday 16 April 2010
Steve Goodman is the founder of the record label Hyperdub and produces bass-driven electronic music under the name kode9.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 18 April 2010
Four days before Marin Alsop's performance of Shostakovich's symphony No.5 and Bernstein's symphony No.2 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra here at Southbank Centre, a showing of the extraordinary film documenting Bernstein's visit to Russia to perform Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony at the height of Cold War.
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Level 5 Function Room
The Auden Influence: Age of Anxiety
Sunday 18 April 2010
Set in a New York bar during the Second World War, WH Auden's 'The Age of Anxiety' won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948.
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Sunley Pavilion
Sunday 25 April 2010
Ahead of the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers on 27 Apr, this workshop looks at Monteverdi's orchestra, including demonstrations and talks about cornetts and sackbutts, with members of the Orchestra.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 29 June 2010
The word 'culture' means different things to different people.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 1 July 2010
Ben Goldacre is one of the most prominent science writers in the UK.
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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 parallel universes.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Friday 2 July 2010
A gay man, Alan Turing, was the godfather of the computer age.
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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.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 3 July 2010
We all share a desire for self-improvement - the desire to be perfect.
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Saison Poetry Library, Level 5 at Royal Festival Hall
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.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 3 July 2010
Advances in biomedical sciences mean the human body is becoming ever more adaptable.
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