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Music News Fisher Theatre: Beverley Craven After a massive forty-night tour of the UK in 2014, BRIT-Award winner Beverley Craven will be back on the road performing a handful of select venues in 2015 as she continues to promote her acclaimed latest album Change of Heart. Her tour rolls into the Fisher Theatre, Bungay on November 27th and promises to be a fantastic night. Beverley is looking forward to performing her new songs live alongside timeless classics Promise Me, Holding On, Woman To Woman, Love Scenes and many more.
100 years of Jazz in 99 Minutes On November 14th Norwich Playhouse is playing host to the only history of jazz from its birth to the present day - in 99 hilarious, musically brilliant, historically fascinating minutes. 100 Years of Jazz in 99 Minutes features six multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi who create a highly entertaining journey through the decades taking in everything from New Orleans to Be Bop, Swing to Latin, Hot to Cool, and from Chicago to New York to around the world. An A to Z of jazz’s biggest names from Louis Armstrong to Joe
With a witty narrative and unforgettable melodies, her poignant
Zawinul interspersed with fascinating facts and stories from the
sentiments will leave you with a warm glow of nostalgia, or
music’s amazing history.
maybe even the odd tear. www.fishertheatre.org
www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk
Cambridge Music Festival From November 9th-19th the Cambridge Music Festival brings an explosion of sound to the city, with some of the world’s most virtuoso classical musicians, a groundbreaking percussionist, new works from the Young Composers’ Network and the ‘Little Britten’ project for local schools. CMF opens and closes with two of the most acclaimed pianists in the world. Sir András Schiff directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with a beautiful programme of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Symphony No.3 ‘Scottish’, at West Road Concert Hall on Monday November 9th. Both Schiff and Federico Colli, who closes the festival, are former winners of the prestigious Leeds Piano Competition. Colli (pictured), who has dazzled the classical music world recently, plays a programme of Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and Scriabin at Jesus College Chapel on Thursday November 19th,
www.cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk
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