concerts

Audiences return to concerts as 270 people gather for socially distanced orchestral recital in Leeds

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Overjoyed classical-music enthusiasts eagerly gathered for a socially-distanced concert at Leeds Town Hall last night. Some 270 people attended Pilot Event: Live at Leeds Town Hall, where The Orchestra of Opera North and singer Nicholas Watts performed a selection of music by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Music lovers said the first concert since lockdown left them in ‘tears’ – … Read more

Audiences return to concerts as 270 people gather for socially distanced orchestral recital in Leeds

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Overjoyed classical-music enthusiasts eagerly gathered for a socially-distanced concert at Leeds Town Hall last night. Some 270 people attended Pilot Event: Live at Leeds Town Hall, where The Orchestra of Opera North and singer Nicholas Watts performed a selection of music by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Music lovers said the first concert since lockdown left them in ‘tears’ – … Read more

Sophie Ellis Bextor talks surviving lockdown with five sons and performing concerts from her kitchen

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Any mother of five who is still sane after two-and-a-half months of lockdown will surely have some survival tips for the rest of us. And Sophie Ellis-Bextor does indeed have advice. Come Friday night, when the textbooks have been flung in a corner and you’ve finished screeching at the kids, you should dig out your heels … Read more

Apple buys VR company NextVR, which builds software to let people attend live concerts virtually 

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The company’s journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left   1976: Founders Steve Jobs, … Read more