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PHILIP HOOK Breakfast at Sotheby’s 2pm–3pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10 Philip Hook – director and senior paintings specialist at Sotheby’s – presents a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value. Philip Hook explores the artist and his hinterland (including -isms, middle-brow artists, Gericault and suicides), subject and style (from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war), ‘wall-power’, provenance and market weather, in a talk that promises to be comic, revealing, piquant, splendid and absurd, as engaged with art as it is with the world that surrounds it.
GARETH WILLIAMS Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio 4.30pm–5.30pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: £10 With the goal of eradicating polio worldwide within our grasp, author and professor of medicine Gareth Williams tells the story of mankind’s struggle with the disease – one of the grandest challenges of modern medicine – and looks at what a polio-free world might mean.
Opera
Music
Literature
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DJORDJE GAJIC 3.15pm–4.15pm St John’s Church Tickets: £12 (unreserved), £15 (reserved) Bach Toccata and Fugue d minor BWV565 Scarlatti 3 Sonatas: E Major, C minor, F Major Zolotaryov Partita No 1 Albeniz Cordoba and Asturias Villa-Lobos The Dance of the White Indian Rossini Aria Accordionist Djordje Gajic brings his unique musical style to bear on an amazing classical programme. Djordje has won many international competitions, amongst them Tropheo Mondiale CMA in 1988 and the Grand Prix, France in 1987. He has also received many awards of outstanding merit leading to television and radio broadcasts. He has performed with Russian State Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yvgeny Svetlanov, RSNO, BBC SSO as well as many solo recitals throughout Europe: Russia, Serbia, Andorra, Holland, France, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Norway and Britain.
A SONG AT SIX 6pm–6.10pm Pavilion Gardens Bandstand Tickets: Free (see p.12)
special Festival events
PRE-OPERA TALK 6.15pm–6.45pm Pavilion Arts Centre Tickets: Free (see p.13)
TONIGHT’S OPERA
ORFEO ED EURIDICE 7.15pm–9.15pm Opera House Tickets: £15–£59 (see p.7)
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