BARBICAN LIFE


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Geranium up and running


s many Barbican residents will already be aware, particularly those who live in the western end of the Estate, a new shop providing specialist foods and essentials has opened under Lauderdale Tower, in the spot which used to house Ambal’s. The store is being run by Barbican resident Marianne Christensen – and we carried a brief notice on this in the last issue.


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y and potentially less so varieties!” There are other equally complimentary posts.


The opening hours are Thurs & Fri 10am-8pm, Sat & Sun 9am-6pm. Soon to be open on Tuesdays too.


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eggs and milk on our doorstep, divine breadsticks baked in th


outstanding salad leaves and h grown in Kent, delicious Neals Y Dairy goats ch tomatoes I h


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figs, memorable fennel salami. Th also stocks lots of useful h


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is weekend to try more th es - th ree ch ings...


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GSMD’s first ever alumni recital series in its new building Milton Court


he Guildhall School of Music & Drama today announces one of the highlights of the inaugural season in Milton Court Concert Hall, one of the School’s new venues within Milton Court, which will open in September 2013. The first ever Alumni Recital Series features four recitals by prestigious alumni from the Guildhall School


ave e blocks omas More gardens, and


including Thomas Adès, Anne Sofie von Otter, Tasmin Little and Toby Spence.


The Guildhall School’s new building Milton Court will include new performance venues, rehearsal rooms and teaching accommodation as well as technical facilities of the highest specification which will help provide the School’s students with the very best training for careers in the performing arts. Audiences will be able to enjoy the new Concert Hall, Theatre and Studio Theatre as well as spacious, light-filled foyers and public spaces.


The Alumni Recital Series will take place in the new state-of-the- art, 608-seat concert hall in Milton Court and commences on 5 November with Thomas Adès and Friends. Adès (Piano/Composition 1989) is joined by three other alumni: violinist Anthony Marwood, clarinettist Matthew Hunt and cellist and Head of Strings at the School Louise Hopkins for a concert that includes Britten’s Suite for Violin and Piano, Gerald Barry’s Low, Stravinsky’s Suite from Th Soldier’s T


e ale and three works by


Adès himself including Lieux retrouvés; Catchand Court Studies. Adès attended both Junior Guildhall and the Guildhall School, where he studied with Paul Berkowitz and Robert Saxton.


On 23 November mezzo-soprano


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