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The best of arts and classical music from the @BBC
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Christmas Eve means A Ghost Story for Christmas... @Markgatiss makes his annual spooky return with Woman of Stone, adapted from the story by E Nesbit. With @CeliaImrie, Eanna Hardwicke, @MonicaDolan, @MawaanR, Phoebe Horn. 📺 BBC Two and #iplayer - 10.15pm, 24 December.
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This Cultural Life: triple Oscar-winner Thelma Schoonmaker on editing Scorsese, surviving Woodstock, marrying Powell (& Pressberger) Watch BBC Four tonight 8pm
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Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the turning points of her career.
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Quincy Jones was one of the greatest, most influential musicians of all time. Worked with Billie Holiday, Ray Charles at 14, led Sinatra at the Sands, produced Off The Wall, Thriller…his legacy is huge. I interviewed him a couple of times, was a huge thrill.
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A fascinating, funny, sad, shocking and ultimately life-affirming conversation with the indomitable @Hanifkureishi today Listen to #ThisCulturalLife next Thurs 17/10/24 11am @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds
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BBC News: Live Page | Dame Maggie Smith dies aged 89 https://t.co/Y1nXJCWY2T
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She won two Oscars in her decades-long career and more recently starred in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey.
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Dame Maggie Smith obituary: A piercing presence on stage and screen https://t.co/aGp57WwxUb
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One of Britain's best loved performers who was as much at home with comedy as with drama.
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What a way to wrap up the 2024 #BBCProms! 🎉 Saturday saw @oramsa conducting the @BBCSO & Chorus, @BBCSingers and soloists Angel Blue & @houghhough in a fantastic #LNotP👏 It’s been a whirlwind season at both the @royalalberthall and our fabulous venues across the UK 🚗 (1/2)
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📢 @BBCRadio2 celebrates National Album Day with a listener vote to find the nation’s Ultimate British Group! Vote for your five favourites until 4pm on Friday 27 September 🎶 Full details ⤵️ https://t.co/Yfrco9wqqX
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Radio 2, the UK’s most listened to radio station, with 13.3m listeners each week (RAJAR Q2 2024), will be celebrating National Album Day – the theme of which this year is Great British Groups - by...
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Our traditional #LNotP festivities commenced with #BBCProms founder-conductor Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea-Songs! ⚓️✨ Tonight’s performance of the Sea Songs also features arrangements of folk songs from all four of the UK’s nations 🏴🇮🇪🏴🏴 Watch on @BBCiPlayer
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‘I’ve got a tune that will knock ’em – knock ’em flat,’ said Elgar of his iconic ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ melody 😌 Land of Hope and Glory has been a staple at the #LNotP for many years, with the words of Arthur Christopher Benson’s poem lent to the central trio section 📝
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Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ has held its place in the second half of the #LNotP since the 1950s. With powerfully poetic text, a memorable melody, and Elgar’s opulent orchestration, this piece feels equally at home in a liturgical setting and a concert hall. 📺Watch now on @BBCiPlayer
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Last night was a magical evening at the #BBCProms celebrating the 15 year anniversary of @florencemachine’s BRIT Award-winning debut album, Lungs, which made Florence Welch a global phenomenon 🌍✨
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A huge thank you to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle for their first of two Proms last night. They performed the UK premiere of Aquifer by Thomas Adès & Bruckner's Fourth in the composer's 200th birthday year! 🎧Listen now @BBCSounds 📷Chris Christodoulou
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Beethoven's ‘Archduke’, performed by the legendary Yo Yo Ma 🎻 Leonidas Kavakos 🎻 and Emanuel Ax 🎹 @BBCProms Watch the rest of this beautiful concert on @BBCiPlayer or listen on @BBCSounds #BBCProms
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Stellar soloists @YoYo_Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and @EmanuelAx captivate at the #bbcproms with Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Piano Trio. 🎼 📺 Watch on @BBCiPlayer - https://t.co/7LLZpafiVU
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A very special @bbcproms concert of music by Stravinsky, Reich, Tippett and Elgar, remembering Sir Andrew Davis. Thank you to conductor Martyn Brabbins and @SynergyVocals 💐💐 🎧 Listen @BBCSounds
https://t.co/jkcSNbvNfe 📷 Andy Paradise
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Another moment from this week’s @bbcdoctorwho prom @bbcproms. I LOVE the attention to detail from Murray Gold & Alastair King - introducing the organ for Sutekh’s theme because it was a pipe organ which summoned Sutekh in the 1975 Pyramids of Mars episodes!!
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Thank you for the love. Proms now available to watch on @BBCiPlayer 🤍 https://t.co/6oZjHQiaej
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