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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team takes on the Jacksonville Dolphins at the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. in the season-opener for both teams. The game will air on ACC Network Extra. You can ...