Soundscapes - an immersive audio-visual installation that invites audiences on a sensory journey through the Yorkshire Dales - is now open to the public until June. Created by the immersive media artist Michaela French and composer Ben Crick, Soundscapes will showcase the diverse scenery of the Yorkshire Dales.
Owl Is my favourite. Who flies like a nothing through the night, who-whoing. Is a feather duster in leafy corners ring-a-rosy-ing boles of mice. Twice you hear him call. Who is he looking for? You hear him hoovering over the floor of the wood. O would you be gold rings in the driving skull if you could? Hooded and vulnerable by the winter suns owl looks.
But Ronnie Butler is dead! Florence Claybourne lives in an assisted-living home for the elderly and Florence, or Flo to her friends, has fallen. The hours tick by as she lies alone in her flat and thinks about events both in the distant past and the recent. Florence is ‘on probation’.
The album has a number of different producers, which results in a fusion of styles that otherwise might have seemed to result in an incoherent style; instead, it gives the impression of where Faith’s mindset was at the time she wrote these personal songs.
Submissions have opened for Harrogate International Festivals’ new award, the McDermid Debut Award for new writers, offering a unique opportunity to be recognised among the best in the crime fiction genre. The Award will be presented on the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, the world’s largest and most prestigious celebration of crime fiction.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases.
Graveny Manor 1968: “Who did it? In which room did they do it, and with what weapon?” We’ve all played the game, and we already felt familiar with the characters that were brought to life in this cleverly written stage production of Cleudo 2.
To mark Women’s History Month, the National Science and Media is celebrating female photography pioneers, Anna Atkins and Julia Margaret Cameron who were both instrumental in the development of modern photography.
Skipton Music’s season finale features Connaught Brass, winners of the inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition (2019) and the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition (2022). Frank Finlay, Chair of Skipton Music, said: “We're thrilled to welcome Connaught Brass to Skipton for what promises to be a resounding finale to our season.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump Is a recreation, revised again by Wright, with the lark replaced by a grey cockatiel, witnesses repainted with faces of patrons, and the philosopher borrowed from a study by Frye, so the dim observers, who weren’t there, can’t have seen it open one moonlit wing as the pressure fell as if the last thing it felt was it felt like flying. Ali Lew…
Northern Ballet is prolific when it comes to creating new ballets, and apart from the seasonal Nutcracker, the classics feature relatively infrequently: Giselle in 2011 and a characteristically different adaptation of Swan Lake in 2016. Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet is an iconic ballet, much loved and performed around the world.
It has been a long wait to see the São Paulo Dance Company; the tour originally planned for 2020 was delayed until 2024 due to the pandemic, but now Bradford Alhambra finally has the chance to welcome the company on their first UK and Irish tour. How lucky we are that Bradford Alhambra is one of the 19 UK and Irish theatres that make up the Dance Consortium.
Andrew Liddle talks to local archaeologist and artist Daniel Shiel who recently brought out his first book Thorntichronicon. Thornton is an unassuming village on the outskirts of Bradford. Though only a couple of miles from Haworth it doesn’t particularly promote itself as the birthplace of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë and their brother, Branwell.
The aura radiating from this recording is supreme, the ambience created is divine, and Stephen Layton’s superbly trained mixed-voice choir, unquestionably one of the best in the country, is disciplined to observe every nuance in dynamics.
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield Panic Attack; The Serpent and the King; Invincible Shield; Devil in Disguise; Gates of Hell; Crown of Horns; As God Is My Witness; Trial by Fire; Escape from Reality; Sons of Thunder; Giants in the Sky.
The title of Christopher Arksey’s new pamphlet for Broken Sleep Books gently ironises the elegiac nature of his poems. A backward glance to a life well-lived, Variety Turns extrapolates alternative meanings from the suggestion of a theatrical playbill to describe, instead, the many faces of his subject, his mother, who died in 2016.
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week. From Friday 8th March Imaginary (15) This new horror from Blumhouse sees all far from well with Chauncey, a young girl’s imaginary friend, who resides within her teddy bear.
The historic Newburgh Priory in Coxwold, one of Yorkshire’s "most beautiful country houses", is hosting a series of on-going art courses this year. These one-day Retreats will be tutored by award-winning Yorkshire artist Patrick Smith.
Dean Clough, the successful 22-acre business and leisure destination in Halifax, has agreed a deal to let 12,835 sq ft of state-of-the-art workspace on a new five-year lease to Calderdale College. The College is expanding its digital creative skills hub at Dean Clough following a £700,000 Government funding boost.
I Monster, the Sheffield-based duo of Jarrod Gosling and Dean Honer, have shared a brand-new track, The Weather on Dharma Records.
A unique opportunity to hear renowned singer and biwa player Akiko Kubota in the UK, in a programme of music by and about trailblazing Japanese women for International Women’s Day 2024.
I am a self-professed chocolate and cream queen. Chocolate in all its forms never disappoints but for me, king of the crop has always been Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, with Fruit and Nut as its Consort. That Edward Cadbury’s aim, as articulated in 1953, was to make the Cadbury village of Bourneville ‘a happy place’, comes as no surprise.
Of course, one (but only one) of the intriguing elements of pairing the Schumanns and Brahms is the fascinating personal history. Brahms fell more and more in love with Clara as Robert declined further and further into insanity. Yet Brahms suppressed his love for Clara. After Robert died in 1856, it seemed likely that the two would marry, yet Brahms chose to concentrate on his career and set off on conducting tours. Of course, all the intrigue surrounding their relationship would be of little consequence if they were not also hugely famous for their music. Prurient interest in the famous is not confined to our own times.
Sheffield indie-rockers - Little Man Tate - have just released their first studio album in fifteen years, Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life, which followed on from the release of the band’s new single Undercover Lovers and a UK headline tour in the autumn.
I know my faults. I can be greedy. I would rather have no chocolate at all than limit myself to just one square from the bar; give me a good book and I like nothing better than to read at every possible moment, getting acquainted with the characters and immersing myself in the action.
Bright Light Bright Light (or Rod Thomas to his family and friends) has had a rather wonderful career to date. Having toured with Sir Elton John, Cher, and Erasure, he has delivered to the world four stunning retro pop collections and a plethora of glorious EPs. Having taken time to focus on his contemporary classical compositions, he has returned to the wonderous world of pop.
In this exceptionally fine rendition, the control of the cathedral choir when unaccompanied is marvellous and well-balanced. It was ingenious to record the congregational parts in the cathedral’s nave with the worshippers and young musicians, as it enables Imogen Morgan to let rip with wonderful hymn accompaniments, but also to colour the expressive elements of the score with splendid stop registrations.
As one would expect from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, they do their fellow compatriot proud with exquisite playing, allowing the orchestral colour to blossom. No wonder it is often cited as Grieg’s own orchestra; he was its chief conductor from 1880 to 1882.
The new partners in swing have shared their peerless dexterity on what is a tribute to a set of truly great songs.
Celebrating their twentieth year, Leeds’s Kaiser Chiefs release their aptly titled eighth album. Whether it is as easy as the title suggests is open to question, as the musical content here is extremely diverse and at times completely different from what their fans have come to expect, which for some might not be an easy listen.