Cornerstone festival features poetry, music and art.THE man dubbed the Shirley Bassey of performance poetry is appearing at the ninth annual Cornerstone Festival The Cornerstone Festival is a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA held annually around the 4th of July in Illinois. In a given year, many artists that play at Cornerstone also play at other events such as the Creation Festival, as well as secular festivals and tours . The 18-day programme of events, which launches on November 18, has the theme "Telling Stories", told through drama, music, dance, comedy, film, poetry and the visual arts, and will feature Yorkshireborn Ian McMillan, poet-inresidence at Barnsley FC, who hosts a weekly Radio 3 show. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra based in Liverpool, England, is one of the world's oldest established orchestras. It is part funded by the local authority, and is administered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RPLS), a registered charity. Orchestra's Ensemble 10/10 kicks off the Festival with the world premiere of Mieczslaw Weinberg's one act opera Lady Magnesia Magnesia, ancient cities, Lydia Magnesia (măgnē`zhə), two ancient cities of Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). They were colonies of the Magnetes, a tribe of E Thessaly. , while Hope University's partnership with MILAPFest brings an evening with internationally celebrated musicians Gaurav Mazumdar (sitar sitar (sĭtär`), fretted string instrument with a gourdlike body and a long neck, similar to the lute. It has from 3 to 7 gut strings, tuned in fourths or fifths (or both), and a lower course of 12 wire strings that vibrate sympathetically with ), Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth (violin) and Kousic Sen (tabla tabla Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in Hindustani music of northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched daya, played with the right hand, is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. ). The West Everton Children's Orchestra will give a lunchtime recital on November 25. Other featured authors include Hope's writer-in-residence Lizzie Nunnery and music specialist Paul du Noyer. There will also be a performance of four new theatre pieces - Elvis is my Mum by Abi Lake, sound installation Roch Crescent by Natalie Lee, Paradise City by Tom Shephard and Subject Object by Paul Currie. The groundbreaking Tmesis tme·sis n. pl. tme·ses Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go. Theatre present their delightful physical theatre piece, also called Tmesis, which will also feature Hope University students. The Cornerstone Gallery is showing Urban Revolution, a selection of works by eminent printmaker Anne Desmet. There will also be a charity art auction, featuring the works of local practitioners, with all proceeds going to the Artists' Benevolent Fund. * FURTHER details on the festival at www.hope.ac.uk/cor nerstone/festival |
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