The Barbican
About three times a year the BBC organise what they call a Total Immersion day at the Barbican Arts Centre in London - a day of concerts, films and talks dedicated usually to a single composer. Next month, it's the French sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger.
If you want to go to all the events, in this case three concerts, a film and a talk, you can buy a Day Pass but for some reason you can't buy these over the net, you have to either phone or go to the box office.
I bought a Day Pass over the phone yesterday and asked for my tickets to be sent by post. They arrived this morning - in two separate envelopes! All the tickets for the concerts and the talk were in one envelope, the ticket for the film show was in another.
Incidentally, there is not much music left by either composer. Lili suffered chronic ill health and died in 1918 at the age of just 24. Nadia outlived her sister by more than sixty years, dying aged 92, but she mostly gave up composition for teaching, teaching some of the most famous composers of the twentieth century.
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If you want to go to all the events, in this case three concerts, a film and a talk, you can buy a Day Pass but for some reason you can't buy these over the net, you have to either phone or go to the box office.
I bought a Day Pass over the phone yesterday and asked for my tickets to be sent by post. They arrived this morning - in two separate envelopes! All the tickets for the concerts and the talk were in one envelope, the ticket for the film show was in another.
Incidentally, there is not much music left by either composer. Lili suffered chronic ill health and died in 1918 at the age of just 24. Nadia outlived her sister by more than sixty years, dying aged 92, but she mostly gave up composition for teaching, teaching some of the most famous composers of the twentieth century.
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