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This week's cultural highlights: The Raid and Bath festival jazz weekend

4571 days ago
Guardian MusicOur critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments belowOpening this weekTheatreWah! Wah! GirlsBritish musical meets Bollywood in... more info

Philip Glass playing Issue Project Room with friends

4575 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan"For three intimate evenings, Philip Glass comes to ISSUE Project Room, New York's City's only European Chamber Music Hall. His only performance in Brooklyn this year, "Philip Glass: Music With Friends" is a rare occasion featuring Glass in duo perfo... more info

Carousel; Einstein on the Beach – review

4579 days ago
Guardian MusicLeeds Grand Theatre; Barbican theatre, LondonTake your choice: a sunny, well-drilled, all-singing, all-dancing chorus line gloriously "bustin' out all over" in swing skirts and boaters, or an immaculate, impervious vocal ensemble, stock still in whit... more info

Was Bianca Jagger wrong to take flash photos at the opera?

4583 days ago
Guardian MusicThe activist was spotted snapping away during Einstein on the Beach. In his new code of conduct for audiences, Leo Benedictus looks at what sort of behaviour is now acceptableLast Friday, the theatre critic Mark Shenton was distracted from a five-hou... more info

Flashpoint: Bianca Jagger and theatre critic's spat at the opera

4583 days ago
Guardian MusicAccusations fly as critic Mark Shenton blasts Jagger's use of flash photography during Einstein on the Beach, while she makes assault claimIt was one of the arts events of the year: audiences in Britain had waited nearly four decades to see a complet... more info

Einstein on the Beach – review

4585 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, London Philip Glass's list of stage works stretches well beyond 20. The majority have reached Britain, but until now Einstein on the Beach – the work he devised in 1976 with director Robert Wilson, launching his career as an opera compose... more info

Vale of Glamorgan festival – review

4588 days ago
Guardian MusicBarry Memorial HallThe Vale of Glamorgan's artistic director John Metcalf has never been afraid of change. After two decades of festivals, he decided to programme only the work of living composers; two decades further on, he's now opted for a major c... more info

Seven days on stage: the Cultural Olympiad unveils its full lineup

4594 days ago
Guardian MusicTim Minchin and Stephen Fry are among the new Cultural Olympiad acts, while protestors take to the stage at Stratford-upon-Avon and encourage audiences to rip up their seatsStarter's ordersAfter more than a few false dawns, the Cultural Olympiad fina... more info

The five myths about contemporary classical music

4595 days ago
Guardian MusicContemporary classical music is devoid of melody and appeal, all noise and no fun. At least, that's the cliche. But this is music that is very much at the heart of our modern world1. It all sounds like a squeaky gateThere are two sides to this. Fi... more info

English National Opera's new season includes controversial Disney story

4597 days ago
Guardian MusicFictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new work by Philip Glass about Walt Disney will have its UK premiere at English Nati... more info

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