Orchestras love thematic programming. It allows them to organize their concert programs around a common idea that gives the ...

National touring opera company OperaUpClose is back in London next week with a one act tragedy which is only an hour long.

The Grand Théâtre de Genève is certainly not risk-averse and Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó controversially translates the action to a penthouse bar in New York.

New Jersey stargazers will be treated to visual splendor in the night sky this month. February features what scientists call a “planetary parade” with Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

Very few pieces have the ability to strike right to the core of our hearts. In The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams created a piece of music that can deeply transform the listener. Completed in 1914, ...

BBC SO leader Igor Yuzefovich plays The Lark Ascending, and the BBC Symphony Chorus sings Towards the Unknown Region: another timeless meditation on an eternal question. To listen on most smart ...

An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush. Hush…when the great Finnish composer ...

Dave ad-libs: “Ladies and gentlemen, the lark ascending!” – a campy joke for those who know Vaughan Williams’ oeuvre. This is perhaps meant to cast Brexiteers in the farcical role they ...

Not counting Walker Kessler, who transferred to Auburn before eventually turning pro, UNC basketball hasn't produced a first round pick since Day'Ron Sharpe came off the board No. 29 overall at ...

Another who can help boost the stable’s fortunes is Ascending Lark in the mares’ handicap hurdle at Ludlow (15:00), a track where Derham has had a couple of winners from just six runners to date.

We have lots entered and the next few days will tell us more, with Ascending Lark, Givemefive, Court In The Act and Brentford Hope all running. Brentford Hope’s first preference after Windsor will ...

The trainer's record at the track is 2-6 (33 per cent) and his best chance comes with the returning Ascending Lark, who bids for a hat-trick in the 2m mares' handicap hurdle (3.00). The seven-year-old ...