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New Eucharistic anthem launched
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Eucharistic Congress, and the Innu Ewkaristiku was written by Dun Karm Psaila, with music by Mro Ġużeppi Caruana, especially for the event. In Malta, the anthem is more popularly known as...
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Warming up for the Jazz Festival
Hailed as one of the most promising guitarists on the New York jazz scene ever since he arrived there in 2004, Gilad Hekselman originally started out studying piano as a young child, picking up the guitar at the age of nine and eventually getting to...
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Tenishia all set for the summer
Local DJ duo Tenishia are drawing an ever-increasing international fan base as it continues to fly the Maltese flag in all four corners of the globe. The duo has recently been rocking the roof off some of the most renowned clubs and festivals around...
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Baroque concert to celebrate summer equinox in Valletta
Cappella Sanctae Catharinae will be celebrating the summer equinox with a concert titled Lumen Christi. Lumen Christi celebrates Christ as the light of the world through sacred polyphony from the 16th and 17th centuries. The programme includes...
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Auditions for Unifaun’s theatre/dance project
Auditions are being held for an upcoming production inspired by the music of British rock legend Peter Gabriel being produced by Unifaun Theatre Productions in January 2014. The project will be directed and choreographed by Janet Vella. “This is a...
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Abstract photography inspired by the sea
An abstract photographic exhibition, Coastal Fragments is a project that was born in 2010 when two individual artists, Jean Pierre Gatt and Derek Nice, researched, in visual detail, aspects of the man-made impact along the sea edge around the...
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Child prodigy for season’s last Bir Miftuħ concert
The last concert of the Bir Miftuħ International Music Festival for this season will feature child prodigy Paolo Tagliamento, who has been brought to Malta under the auspices of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute. At 15 years of...
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New musical archive
The Sliema Philharmonic Society, as part of its 90th anniversary celebrations, recently inaugurated a new musical archive at its premises. The new musical archive was placed in one of the main halls of the upper part of the premises and will cater...
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From rags to rhythms
Over the years I have been involved in many school productions, from high school musicals to ballet school shows. I have also experienced these productions from the audience’s perspective on many more occasions. When the big night arrives, the...
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Verve and versatility
This year’s Gaulitana Festival in Gozo, under the artistic direction of Colin Attard, included a series of 19 concerts, which came to an end with two performances that had to be presented with some changes. Last-minute problems resulted in the...
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Classical CD reviews
Bliss: Checkmate (Complete Ballet) – Mêlée Fantasque – Royal Scottish National Orchestra – David Lloyd-Jones (Cond.) – NAXOS 8.557641 (65 mins) Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) is one of Britain’s leading composers from the 20th century. Unfortunately,...
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A slick and smooth performance
It has been a great month for music, and it’s still not over yet. After a long and dreary electoral campaign, which slowed down the start of the season, we now have a series of top-quality concerts back to back. The latest concert by the Malta...
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Maltese participation in conference on cities and festivities in the baroque age
Prof. Denis De Lucca, director of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta, was recently invited to give an illustrated presentation during La festa e la città nell’età barocca, a conference held in Sicily. The...
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MTV to host biggest online-only music festival
Concertgoers will not have to leave their homes to enjoy the Live Music Day Festival, the biggest online-only event of its kind, music networks MTV, VH1 and CMT said. The 24-hour virtual concert is set to kick off at 7pm EDT on June 19 (1am on June...
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Helena Bonham Carter in Elizabeth Taylor’s shoes
Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter will star as one of Hollywood’s most tempestuous couples – Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor – in a one-off 90-minute BBC drama. Burton and Taylor will follow the couple’s private and public relationship,...
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Of folk music and ariettas
ConcertHugh Tinney, piano; Fionnuala Hunt, violin; Christopher Marwood, celloBir Miftuħ Chapel The Academy Chamber Ensemble, three of Ireland’s leading musicians, took part in the third delightful concert of the 17th edition of the Bir Miftuħ...
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Eucharistic Congress Centenary
On the occasion of the first centenary of the International Eucharistic Congress of 1913, the Archbishop’s Curia is today holding a conference entitled Appreciating the Body of Christ – Church and the Eucharist, at 7pm. Rev. John Anthony Berry and...
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Abba reunion foiled by demand
Former Abba star Agnetha Fältskog has revealed that the group turned down reunion offers because they were asked to perform too many shows. The Swedish pop group were reportedly offered a $1 billion sum to get back together. But Fältskog, 63, told...
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The Sopranos tops US TV series list
The New Jersey mob saga The Sopranos was listed as the best-written US TV series above comedy show Seinfeld in a list compiled by the Writers Guild of America. The guild, which represents writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media...
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Don’t open that book!
Evil Dead (2013)Certified: 18Duration: 92 minutesDirector: Fede AlvarezStarring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore, Phoenix Connolly, Jim McLarty, Sian Davis, Stephen Butterworth, Karl Willetts, Randal...
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