GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – April 2022
I never need much of an excuse to write about Leonard Bernstein – but in the wake of the Spielberg remake of West Side Story (doubtless laden with awards by the time these words are published) I…
COMPARING NOTES with DESMONDA CATHABEL
Sunday 5th June 2022 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – January 2022
It’s 1992 and Sam Mendes’ celebrated staging of Sondheim and Weidman’s Assassins is in rehearsal at the Donmar Warehouse. In the green room Stephen Sondheim sits reading a copy of Gramophone during the lunch break (yes, really),…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Bernstein Candide – Soloists, London Symphony Orchestra/Alsop
Absence doesn’t make the heart grow any fonder of this performance. I heard (and saw) it live back in 2018 and it was in so many ways a mirror image of what the composer himself tried to…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – November 2021
We all love a drama, most especially one that stems from an unforeseen crisis. During this year’s foreshortened Prom season tenor Simon O’Neill, the eponymous hero of Glyndebourne’s Tristan und Isolde realised after act two that his…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Lloyd Webber Cinderella – Original London Cast
Tale as old as time… but clearly with half an eye on the Instagram age. Hearing this concept album before actually seeing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest West End opus (and remember that’s how both Jesus Christ Superstar…
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ: WICKED at 15
Wicked UK’s new podcast with composer / lyricist Stephen Schwartz and Edward Seckerson, to mark the 15th anniversary of the show in London’s West End. They discuss the enduring popularity of this musical theatre phenomenon, as well…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Symphonic Suites – The Andrew Lloyd Webber Orchestra/Lee
The Symphonic Suite has quite a pedigree, from those seeking to bask in the drama and hit tunes of favourite operas without words or voices (conductor Carlo Rizzi has been doing so with Puccini, I gather) to…
COMPARING NOTES with LUCY SCHAUFER
Sunday 28th November 2021 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
COMPARING NOTES WITH OSCAR CONLON-MORREY
Sunday 17th October 2021 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
