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• Syrian musician in limbo after travel ban

  29-01-2017 20:58
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian musician who was allowed to legally immigrate to the United States on account of his "extraordinary" abilities, and who recently toured with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, is now wondering whether he can return to his Brooklyn home.
  
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• Philip Cannon obituary

  29-01-2017 18:45
  
  Versatile composer whose commissions included a requiem in one movementThe composer and teacher Philip Cannon, who has died aged 87, defied avant-garde trends with vocal and instrumental music that communicated immediately with listeners.His first acknowledged works date from his student years at the Royal College of Music. He was only 19 when he wrote his symphonic study Spring, which was played at the Proms under Sir Malcolm Sargent in 1954. Another notable piece from this period, the lively n
  
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• Binky Felstead Reportedly Expecting A Baby Girls As She Shares Happy News With Made In Chelsea Cast

  29-01-2017 18:03
  
  The reality star is having her first ever baby with boyfriend Josh 'JP' Patterson
  
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• Celebrity Big Brother star Calum Best Talks About His Destructive Drugs, Drink And Sex Obsessed Past

  29-01-2017 17:14
  
  The reality star struggled with his own demons as he watched his father's life spiral out of control
  
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• Bella Thorne Shares Saucy Topless Throwback Photos As She Longs To Return To Sunny Days And Red Hair

  29-01-2017 16:40
  
  The actress shared a number of throwback snaps over the weekend
  
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• Kylie Jenner Sizzles In Silver Bikini As She Shares Volcano Selfie And Snaps With Tyga

  29-01-2017 16:21
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star is on holiday in Costa Rica
  
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• Alice Coote/Julius Drake review – restless soul-searching and piano anxiety

  29-01-2017 16:20
  
  Wigmore Hall, LondonWith reference to Jung, Virginia Woolf and John Clare, Coote’s velvety mezzo-soprano song recital explored mental illness with increasingly disruptive tuning Not for Alice Coote the regular song recital. This one, with pianist Julius Drake, came freighted with a Jungian title: “I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?” It was a characteristically soul-searching evening, all three works involving composers or writers who had experienced mental illn
  
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• Kim Kardashian Shares Her Biggest Workout Secret In Rare Snapchat Video

  29-01-2017 15:49
  
  The reality star has a strict workout routine we might struggle to keep up with
  
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• Joe Wicks Is Clearing His Diary To Appear On Strictly Come Dancing 2017

  29-01-2017 15:24
  
  The fitness fanatic has been approached to star on series 15 of the BBC One dance show
  
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• Geordie Shore Star Chloe Ferry Left "Fuming" After Awkward Run-in With Ex Marty McKenna

  29-01-2017 15:03
  
  The recent Celebrity Big Brother evictee was on the lash with fellow Geordie babe Charlotte Crosby
  
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• Celebrities Express Fury Over President Donald Trump's Immigration Ban

  29-01-2017 14:09
  
  The current President of the United States of America has angered people all over the world. Again.
  
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• Migos: Culture review – bling culture’s Beatles don’t disappoint

  29-01-2017 10:00
  
  (Quality Control)
  The Atlanta rap trio’s hotly anticipated second album is exuberant, gritty and seriously ambitiousFour years ago, rap trio Migos broke out of Atlanta with their Young Rich Niggas mixtape, which made many US end-of-year lists. Dripping in chains, they rapped coldly about drugs and money with the sing-song numbness and jangling-nerve hi-hats typical of trap, hip-hop’s gritty southern variant. Their excitable Versace single consisted almost entirely of the designer lab
  
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• Black Sabbath review – one last time with feeling

  29-01-2017 10:00
  
  SSE Hydro, Glasgow
  The masters of metal are grinding their way through a long, thrillingly loud farewell tour. Though Ozzy Osbourne may have other plans…The farewell tour is a standing joke in rock. These tours tend to sell well, so artists often do more than one. Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne embarked on a solo farewell jaunt in 1992. Back then he said: “This is absolutely for real. It’s the end of the road for me. I’ve been doing it for 25 years and I want to go h
  
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• Ty Segall: Ty Segall review – an impressively intimate gear change

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Drag City)Over the past decade, Californian Ty Segall has been defined as much by his Stakhanovite work ethic as for his knack for melding melody with power to breathe fresh life into garage rock. His first album of 2017 has plenty of the sort of fuzzed-up riffs that made 2014’s career high-water mark Manipulator so intoxicating, but for once his best songs are also the most intimate. The tender Talkin’ and Orange Color Queen have more in common with the late Elliott Smith than the
  
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• Kenneth Leighton: Complete Organ Works CD review – a towering triumph

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  Stephen Farr (organ and harpsichord), John Butt (organ), Chloe Hanslip (violin), Nicky Spence (tenor)
  (Resonus)This is a major achievement. Stephen Farr triumphs in his massive survey of the output of Kenneth Leighton, a towering figure in British 20th-century liturgical music – one who instinctively understood the context of his compositions; how the organ works within great buildings and how its power and myriad colours can contribute to an exultant spiritual experience. Highlights are t
  
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• Kehlani: SweetSexySavage review – tunes and attitude

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Atlantic)Kehlani’s career may have begun on America’s Got Talent, but the tattooed, gamine Californian is more intriguing than your average R&B wannabe. If her name has resonated for all the wrong reasons – last year’s hospitalisation after her love life got complicated – the singer’s debut album proper proves she has the tunes and personality to back up the notoriety. A generous helping of SSS has been out already, with the video for the nagging Distract
  
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• Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band: Big Machine review – a bravura romp

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Topic)No one has put folk through more rinses than Carthy the younger; trip-hop, drum’n’bass, cabaret and marching bands are among styles she’s mixed with mournful ballad, jolly shanty and her own songbook. Here she leads a 12-piece ensemble – brass, fiddles, the works – on a bravura romp through songs old and new. It’s a less rumbustious beast than the defunct Bellowhead, though its thumping rock drums can be equally wearing. Among the standouts are a theatr
  
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• Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau review – mind-boggling interplay

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Nonesuch) Related: 'I've spent the last year in a dream state': virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile Once you get past the opening track, which is simply weird, this set is strangely engrossing. Brad Mehldau is, of course, one of the finest and most adventurous jazz pianists around. Chris Thile is a singer and virtuoso of the mandolin whose roots lie in bluegrass music. The purely instrumental numbers are at times quite mind-boggling in their cat-and-mouse interplay. Thile’s vocals can be a b
  
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• Aquilo: Silhouettes review – melancholy but slick

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  (Island)If the xx have got too happy for you, fear not: synth duo Aquilo arrive with heavy hearts and a seemingly bottomless well of lush, plaintive melodies. Named after the Greek god of cold northern winds, the former teenage rock band rivals draw deeply on the melancholy atmospherics of the Lake District near where they grew up. Three years on from their breakout turn at Glastonbury, however, any craggy edges have been smoothed away by slick production from the likes of Sohn and Ólafur
  
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• Various artists: New Gen review – a snapshot of London’s urban scene

  29-01-2017 08:50
  
  (XL)Born from a playlist that became a live night and a radio show helmed by website GRM Daily’s Caroline Simoniescu-Marin, New Gen provides a snapshot of London’s fast-moving urban scene, where grime meets R&B. It’s a compilation that doesn’t merely compile; these tunes were laid down specifically for the project, taking cues from US trap sounds as well as London’s Caribbean forms. You might have heard of smooth crew WSTRN, here with Loose, but the MCs steal th
  
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• The Snow Maiden; Luca Burato review – the girl who came in from the cold

  29-01-2017 08:30
  
  Grand theatre, Leeds; Wigmore Hall, London
  Opera North delivers folklore in a factory in a rare staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden. And a piano prize-winner’s UK debutA long, frozen winter, the surprise of spring renewal, bird song and folk melody: Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden (1882) pulls us deep into the poetic world of Russian folklore and the story of the ice girl who will melt if exposed to the sun. Only with her death can winter end. That sudden moment when
  
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• Dvorák: Piano Trios Op 65 & 90 CD review – bursting with energy

  29-01-2017 08:25
  
  Trio Wanderer
  (Harmonia Mundi)The Trio Wanderer, now 30 years old, sounds as sparkling and zestful as ever in Dvorák’s infectious “Dumky” trio, Op 90, truly a work to lift spirits, though not without melancholy. The last of the composer’s works for the medium, it bursts with Slavonic dance rhythms and lyrical folk melody, wonderfully captured by this incisive French ensemble. The Op 65 trio is less well known but deserving of attention. The passionate, big-boned st
  
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• Dvorák: Piano Trios Op 65 & 90 CD review – an exemplary

  29-01-2017 08:25
  
  Trio Wanderer
  (Harmonia Mundi)The Trio Wanderer, now 30 years old, sounds as sparkling and zestful as ever in Dvorák’s infectious “Dumky” trio, Op 90, truly a work to lift spirits, though not without melancholy. The last of the composer’s works for the medium, it bursts with Slavonic dance rhythms and lyrical folk melody, wonderfully captured by this incisive French ensemble. The Op 65 trio is less well known but deserving of attention. The passionate, big-boned st
  
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• Bach, Henryson, Sandström: Dansa CD review – wild Swedish Bach

  29-01-2017 08:20
  
  Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Lena Willemark (voice)(BIS)The theories of Professor Helga Thoene about the influence of chorales on Bach’s famous Chaconne have been explored before on disc, by the pure-voiced Hilliard Ensemble on the 2001 ECM album Morimur. This is odder, wilder and more successful. Lena Willemark is a Swedish folk singer, and her chorales are a solo-voice wail, plangent and moving, that cuts across Cecilia Zilliacus’s admirable violin like an echo from a ritual past. B
  
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