Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper began, in the composer’s own words, ‘with an idea about theatre rather than an idea about a subject matter’. In particular, the notion of a Greek ...

Burnley's Labour MP Oliver Ryan – being investigated by the Labour Party over his "unacceptable and deeply disappointing" ...

Candlelight: Christmas may seem like a distant memory but for some churchgoers Candlemas marks the end of the traditional 40 ...

A pothole swallowed a double-decker bus in Pendle – after a town councillor conducted a light-hearted way to highlight the ...

Sir Harrison Birtwistle's music is frequently performed by some of the world’s leading conductors: Boulez, Barenboim, Dohnányi, Rattle, Pappano and Welser-Möst among them. He was awarded a KBE in 1988 ...

Howarth was the last of the Manchester School, the precociously talented composers and performers who emerged in that city in the 1950s and included Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, John Ogdon ...

A light artwork has been installed in a 19th century building, as a homage to the Bristol Light Festival. The Granary near Queen Square will now be lit permanently, with circular lights and a ...