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Contents Music Room Page 3 – Contemporary Music Page 4 – Family & Variety Page 12 – Learning Page 14 – Classical Music Page 16 – Summer Pops 2015 Page 21 – Comedy & Spoken Word Page 23 – Film Page 25 – Seating Plan & Venue Information Page 28 & 29

Welcome...

It has been an extraordinary and exciting time since we last published a What’s On Guide.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra concert on 12 March was 175 years to the day of Liverpool Philharmonic’s very first concert organised by a group of music lovers in 1840. The concert and celebrations were broadcast live on Classic FM with the station relocating to broadcast 14 hours of live programmes from Liverpool to mark the occasion. On Fridays throughout 2015, Classic FM is broadcasting concerts by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded exclusively at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The series can be heard in The Full Works Concert.

In March we announced a new annual competition for young North West composers (see page 3).

There is still time to catch the exhibition at Central Library, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – Celebrating 175 Years of the Original Liverpool Sound which charts the ups and downs of our music making in parallel with the city of Liverpool’s own fortunes.

PRINCIPAL FUNDERS

We have just announced news of a brand new performance space for Liverpool created as part of the £13.8 million refurbishment of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (page 3). But before the new space opens its doors for the first time, we have a summer of fabulous music ahead of us. After 16 years thrilling audiences, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® bid ‘Adios’ with a final farewell show (page 4). If you’ve missed out on the sold out Bellowhead concert in April (page 6), there is more high quality English roots music in the form of The Full English (page 7) and Fotheringay (page 10) at St George’s Hall and Tom Paxton at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (page 7). We have a succession of concerts representing the best and most innovative Americana: Calexico (page 6), GIANT3 SANDS (page 9), The Heritage Blues Orchestra (page 9), Mavis Staples (page 10) and Rosanne Cash (page 11). Of course summer also means the return of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Summer Pops series. This year concerts include Disney in Concert, The John Lennon Song Book and a visit by Opera North.

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MUSIC ROOM

LIGHT NIGHT

LightNight is Liverpool’s one-night arts and culture festival illuminating the city for a sixth year on Friday 15 May from 4pm.

You are invited to explore Liverpool as our world-class galleries, museums and public spaces stay open late for a free showcase of the city’s art.

As we celebrate Liverpool Philharmonic’s 175th birthday, we present a unique musical experience harking back to our founding. Join us in the newly refurbished Grand Foyer at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, where an ensemble of musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform music which might have been heard by concertgoers in the 1840s.

Two 20-minute free performances will take place beginning at 6.30pm and 7.30pm. To complete the experience, we’re offering a Victorian-themed Afternoon Tea from 2.30pm, and Victorian themed drinks and snacks from our bar. – To reserve a table for afternoon tea, please call 0151 709 3789 or visit www.liverpoolphil.com/dining

CALLING NORTH WEST COMPOSERS

We’re delighted to announce the Music Room, a brand new performance space created as part of the £13.8 million refurbishment of the Grade II* listed Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

The 160-250 variable capacity space with a bar and dining areas will open in October 2015 and will have its own entrance on Sugnall Street (just off Myrtle Street).

A contemporary, intimate and flexible space, the Music Room will host a wide range of concerts and events. These will complement the programme in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s main auditorium and will include folk, roots and acoustic music, concerts by Liverpool Philharmonic ensembles, and allow Liverpool Philharmonic to present music in collaboration with many more city-based artists, festivals and promoters. The Music Room will be an exciting new addition to Liverpool’s musical life.

The Music Room will also be a fantastic new space for our extensive learning programme, including Discover the Classics (Saturday sessions exploring upcoming concerts with visiting artists and conductors) and children’s workshops. – Details of the opening concerts will be revealed this summer, so look out for the next What’s On Guide and, if you haven’t already, why not follow us on twitter @liverpoolphil and Facebook.com/LiverpoolPhilharmonic where we might drop some hints about what to expect.

Christopher Brooks Composition Prize in association with The Rushworth Foundation.

Are you a composer aged 18-30 living or studying in the Northwest of England?

Liverpool Philharmonic is pleased to announce the Christopher Brooks Composition Prize in association with the Rushworth Foundation, a new annual competition for young composers, representing our continuing commitment to the commissioning and performance of new music as well as our interest in supporting home-grown talent.

Liverpool Philharmonic will support and mentor the successful composer with the help of musicians in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and established composers. The composer will also have the opportunity to work with Liverpool Philharmonic’s Artists in Residence, benefitting from the expertise of musicians at the top of their profession.

£1,000 will be awarded to the winner and he or she will write a new work for an ensemble from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra which will be performed in concert during the 2016-17 concert season. – The closing date for entries is Saturday 30 May, 2015. For more information please go to www.liverpoolphil.com/youngcomposers or email learning@liverpoolphil.com

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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

Blue plus guests

Thursday 2 April 7.30pm £25, £31 – Lee Ryan, Antony Costa, Duncan James and Simon Webbe catapulted to fame in 2001 with their Top 5 single All Rise, quickly ascending to the top of the charts with three No. 1 albums and scoring highly-

respectable collaborations with Elton John and Stevie Wonder. Blue’s last album, Roulette, saw them collaborate with Grammywinning producer RedOne, reigniting the band’s signature style of soaring emotional ballads and energetic pop productions. The band is well and truly back in the spotlight! ‘All Rise’ for one of Britain’s most talked-about boy bands.

The Solid Silver 60s Show

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Adios Tour

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® Featuring Omara Portuondo, Guajiro Mirabal, Barbarito Torres and Jesus ‘Aguaje’ Ramos.

Tuesday 7 April 7.30pm £37.50, £43.50 – After 16 years thrilling audiences around the world, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® is set to bid ‘Adios’ with a farewell world tour. The group grew out of the release of the Grammy Award-winning best-selling album Buena Vista Social Club™. Under the musical direction of band leader and trombonist Jesus ‘Aguaje’

Ramos, the line-up for the Adios Tour features several of those who played on the original album and film, including the incomparable veteran diva Omara Portuondo, trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal and laúd virtuoso Barbarito Torres. The Adios Tour represents the distillation of more than a thousand shows over 16 years involving more than forty musicians. During that time the group has evolved into a customised, dynamic, multigenerational big band in which veterans and younger performers have combined to celebrate Cuban musical tradition with flair and élan which always makes for a fabulous night of entertainment and wonderful music.

Friday 3 April 7.30pm £26.50, £28.50, £33.50 – Celebrating 30 tremendous years of the UK’s original and premier sixties show, Solid Silver 60s brings one of its best line-ups yet. Headlining, and back in the UK for the first time since 1999, is the original cool cat, Billy J Kramer, performing alongside the original voice of the Searchers, Mike Pender still going strong since his first No. 1 hit in 1963. Chris Farlowe of Handbags & Gladrags fame and a Solid Silver firm favourite will sock it to you. And finally on this anniversary bill is UK soul pioneer PP Arnold - one of the original members of The Ikettes. All of these legends are backed by The New Amen Corner and very special guests, the Merseybeats return to round off this 30th birthday bash.

Shalamar plus support

Monday 6 April 8pm £25, £35, £50 – Shalamar are the disco-driven dance trio spearheaded by Don Cornelius, the creator of the Soul Train show that was on air for over 30 years from 1971. As one of the most influential groups of their era the group is regarded as trendsetters for both how they looked and their dancing. The fashion icons were among the first artists to bring body-popping to the UK. Gaining their first hit with Uptown Festival, Shalamar continued to release a string of well-received singles in the UK including Take That To The Bank and A Night To Remember. In the years that followed the group picked up multiple Gold and Platinum albums as well as a Grammy Award. Now they are back!

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The Frank & Ella Show Jacqui Dankworth & Todd Gordon

‘One of the classiest acts in British jazz singing’. The Guardian

Mike and the Mechanics

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Wednesday 8 April 7.30pm £20, £23, £29 – Two of Britain’s leading jazz vocalists present a stylish, sophisticated and entertaining tribute to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, featuring timeless songs such as Manhattan, Lady Is a Tramp, Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye, Summer Wind, Night and Day, I’ve Got You Under My Skin,

They are supported by the 17piece Back to Basie Big Band which has been voted Best British Big Band six times at the British Jazz Awards.

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How High the Moon and Mack the Knife. Todd Gordon is renowned as one of the world’s greatest singers in the classic Sinatra mould, while the fantastic Jacqui Dankworth is one of the select few able to live up to Ella’s exacting standards.

Thursday 9 April 7.30pm £30, £35, £42.50 – Since 1985 the Mechanics have released seven albums, selling more than 10 million records and touring worldwide with a two front men led band. Now they come to Liverpool Philharmonic to play all their classic hits.

Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham

Thursday 9 April 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £16 – Bain & Cunningham’s incomparable mastery of fiddle and accordion has made the Scottish duo’s shows some of the finest in traditional music across the British Isles and beyond. They form the core of the house band for the cross cultural Celtic/ Americana Transatlantic Sessions project, and individually pursue ventures in performance, television and education, but it is when they play live together as a duo that they truly shine with over quarter of a century of well-honed skills and hilarious banter delighting audiences everywhere. ‘Simply the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear.’ The Herald

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The Hollies

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Seasick Steve

Sunday 12 April 7.30pm £22.50, £29.50, £35.50 – Seasick Steve returns to the UK for the first time in four years, armed with a batch of fantastic new songs for what promises to be one memorable date. As well as delving into his back catalogue, Steve will showcase his new album, Sonic Soul Surfer.

Saturday 18 April 7.30pm £23.50, £29.50 – No support act is needed as The Hollies perform their classics; The Air That I Breathe, Carrie Anne, Bus Stop, Just One Look, Stop Stop Stop, On a Carousel, Long Cool Woman, In a Black Dress, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother and many more hits. This show is a brilliant two-hour (and more) Hollies celebration.

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David Arnold A Night at the Movies From James Bond to Sherlock, Independence Day to Godzilla Tuesday 21 April 7.30pm £24.50, £29.50, £37.50, £42.50, £50 – Re-live some of the most iconic film and TV music moments of all time with the man behind the music. David Arnold is one of the most influential and successful British composers of the last two decades. He is joined by Manchester Camerata to perform some of his most memorable scores and themes from film and television including: Independence Day, Stargate, the James Bond films (Casino Royale, The World Is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies and others), The Chronicles

of Narnia, Godzilla, Hot Fuzz, Paul, The London 2012 Olympic Games, Made in Dagenham, the hit TV show Sherlock and more. David will also share an insight into the world of a Bond film composer and songwriter, telling anecdotes from his illustrious career.

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plus support Kings of the South Seas

Bellowhead

plus support The Barr Brothers

Friday 24 April 7.30pm £22.50, £24.50, £30.50 – Since their formation ten years ago Bellowhead have occupied a unique place in Britain’s musical landscape: a blistering 11-piece band fusing folk, funk, rock, world, jazz, music hall and classical music, they have placed themselves at the cutting edge of the contemporary music scene while harnessing all the power and mystery of English and European musical traditions.

Friday 1 May 8pm £18, £24 – Some 22 years since they first met Joey Burns and John Convertino return - joined as ever by a cast of musicians from across the globe as the collective that is Calexico - to play Liverpool for the first time since 2006. Calexico emerged at the forefront of contemporary US acts straddling vintage roots and altcountry cool collaborating with the likes of Victoria Williams, Iron & Wine, Willie Nelson,

Beth Hart plus support Miles Graham

Sunday 3 May 8pm £25, £32.50 – Signed to Atlantic Records, Hart scored international hits with 1996’s Immortal, 1999’s Screamin’ For My Supper and the subsequent smash hit LA Song (Out Of This Town). If Hart’s back catalogue is eclectic, her formative tastes were even more so, taking in jazz, rock, blues, gospel and grunge, with influence from Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald to Robert Plant and Chris Cornell. She has collaborated with rock legends

Roger McGuinn and Nancy Sinatra. In mapping their eponymous musical and psychic geography – they’re named after a small US/Mexico border town – Burns cites influences including ‘Portugese fado, 50s jazz, gypsy music, 60s surf and twang from Link Wray to Duane Eddy, Ennio Morricone and dark indie-rock singer songwriters’. Splashes of mariachi and Latin colour expand Calexico’s unique sound palette yet further, with hints of New Orleans hoodoo on 2012’s Algiers their latest studio album, while reports of a followup nearing completion promise fresh surprises at this gig.

such as Jeff Beck and Slash, as well as blues star Joe Bonamassa, a partnership which changed her trajectory and resulted in an invitation to sing on the Kevin Shirley-produced soul-rock covers album, Don’t Explain. This proved to be the turning point for her, and the perfect springboard for her new album, Bang Bang Boom Boom. This new collection of 11 original songs gives those eclectic influences free rein, spinning from brassy gospel to her firstever piano solo, and impossibly tender vocals.

The Full English

Tuesday 5 May 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £22.50 – The folk singer and scholar Fay Hield has assembled a group of stellar musicians to record an album, with material based on a new English Folk Dance and Song Society digital archive of folk music and related materials.

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Chris de Burgh & Band

The Hands of Man Live 2015

Friday 8 May 7.30pm £40, £50, £55, £60 –

The band line-up includes Hield, traditional singer and fiddle player Nancy Kerr, boundarycrossing and award winning singer songwriter Seth Lakeman, the internationally renowned guitarist Martin Simpson, double bassist of choice Ben Nicolls, and two of the most dazzling, in-demand multi-instrumentalists playing today, Rob Harbron and Sam Sweeney.

An Evening with

Lulu

Monday 11 May 7.30pm £28.50, £35, £45, £51 – The legendary Scottish singer, actress and television personality is back and performing her hits and songs that have influenced her life. Famed for her international hits such as To Sir with Love from the film of the same name and

In February 2014, The Full English won a stunning double at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; Best Group and Album of the Year, with Hield also gaining a nomination for Folk Singer of the Year. The band performed at Hop Farm Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival last year and now we’re delighted to bring the project to Liverpool.

Al Stewart Classic Album Concert: Year of The Cat Live

Tuesday 5 May 8pm £28.50, £32.50, £37.50 – Stewart performs an acoustic version of his classic album Year Of The Cat in its entirety. The album first released in September 1976 was the commercial breakthrough for Al in Europe and the United States. Stewart was part of the British folk revival in the sixties and seventies, and developed his own unique style of combining folkrock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history. Perhaps best known for his hit Year of the Cat from the platinum album of the same name and the platinum follow up album Time Passages, his career spans four decades as a key figure in British music. He played at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, worked with Yoko Ono preLennon and shared a London apartment with a young Paul Simon.

the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun Lulu has been in the public eye since her breakthrough hit Shout in 1964. In European countries, she is also widelyknown for her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry Boom Bang-a-Bang. Last year she appeared at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, performing Shout fifty years after its initial release. 50 Years On

In support of his brand new studio album, The Hands of Man, de Burgh brings his European tour to Liverpool Philharmonic. With sales approaching 50 million worldwide, few artists can lay claim to international success spanning three decades but, beginning with his very first release, Chris de Burgh has achieved precisely that.

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Tom Paxton with special guest Robin Bullock

Monday 18 May 7.30pm £26.50, £32.50 – 50 years on from his first UK tour, in 1965, the celebrated US folk music star Tom Paxton returns to Liverpool Philharmonic. The five decades since have seen him record many enduring songs, and give thousands of live performances

around the world. Celebrated amongst his peers and audiences alike, Paxton is one of the most highly regarded, loved, and best known folk singer/songwriters of his generation and was bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2009. With timeless classics such as The Last Thing On My Mind, Bottle Of Wine, and Ramblin’ Boy, he portrays through his songs and his famously generous nature a true desire for justice, and to bring people together. A Tom Paxton gig is a joyful treat. He is a revered figure in folk music and a voice of his generation.

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Saturday 23 May 7.30pm £33.50, £37.50, £42.50 – The US singer-songwriter returns with his band for this concert in support of his new live CD/DVD, Live in Manchester. Over the course of his extraordinary career, Don McLean has sold over 40 gold or platinum records worldwide,

appeared on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage and was awarded the BBC Radio 2 Folk Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He has sold out arenas worldwide, performing on 14 world tours and in more than 4,000 concert appearances. Don’t miss your chance to see the man who brought us American Pie, Vincent (Starry Starry Night), Crying and Castles In The Air - one of America’s genuine living legends.

‘A triumph…signed, sealed, delivered.’ Blackpool Gazette

‘A spellbinding performance from start to finish.’ Daily Record, Scotland

Though membership of the band has shifted over the years (for a long while the band’s rhythm section consisted of John Convertino and Joey Burns of Calexico fame) the collective is the primary outlet for ‘the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft’ (All Music) of Pennsylvania-born singer and guitarist Gelb. GIANT³ SAND guest artists over the last three decades have

included Victoria Williams, Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Wynn, Vicki Peterson, Rainer Ptacek, M. Ward, Isobel Campbell and nearly all members of the band Poi Dog Pondering. The band slot this unique Liverpool show in between their Primavera Sound festival appearances in Barcelona and Porto.

Don McLean plus support Chelsey Chambers

John Barrowman

Tuesday 19 May 7.30pm £25, £35, £45, £51 – John Barrowman’s new album, You Raise Me Up is released this summer. This concert is part of his first full UK tour in four years, and promises to be an entertainment experience not to be missed.

John’s fans funded the album through PledgeMusic’s Direct to Fan platform. It features new arrangements of many of John’s favourite songs, including Mandy, Bridge Over Troubled Water, A Thousand Years and the title track You Raise Me Up. Barrowman’s career has been nothing short of incredible and this year has been no exception, he was awarded an MBE in HM The Queen’s Birthday Honours and he is about to release his third fantasy novel, The Book of Beasts co-authored with his sister Carole Barrowman.

Bryan Ferry

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Tuesday 26 May 7.30pm £35, £45, £55, £65, £70 –

Magic of Motown The Reach Out Tour

Sunday 31 May 7.30pm £26.50, £32.50 – 2015’s all-new show celebrating its 12th incredible year with more chart toppers than ever before. Featuring the music of the Four Tops, Supremes, Temptations, Jackson 5, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie and more. Oozing the style, sophistication and musical brilliance of these musical legends the show revives more than 36 back-to-back massive, classic hits with all the dazzling dance moves, glittering costume changes and superb musicianship.

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Wednesday 3 June 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £16.50 – Celebrating their 30th Anniversary in 2015, Howe Gelb’s extraordinary collective release a new album this May (featuring. Jason Lytle, Steve Shelley, and The Common Linnets plus many more).

After an impressive set of performances around the world throughout 2014 including the lauded Glastonbury and Coachella debuts, British musical icon Bryan Ferry returns to Liverpool Philharmonic. The concert features an incredible set list of both Roxy Music and solo hits. Booking fees Online and phone 7.50% per order administrative fee applies, this includes all costs and standard postage is free. In Person No fees for cash or debit card payments. Credit card payments incur a 2% transaction fee and cheque payments are subject to 70p per order charge.

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Holly Johnson

Orleans; the hand-clapping fervour of gospel punctuated with fiery postmodern, jazzinfused horn arrangements; the haunting cries of work songs and pulsating drums that reach back to the real roots of it all.They won over UK crowds with their debut at Liverpool Philharmonic in 2013, Celtic Connections and the Cambridge Folk festival amongst others. Now they are back, with a new album to be released in Spring 2015.

Heritage Blues Orchestra

Friday 5 June 8pm £19.50, £25.50 – Listen to their Grammynominated debut album And Still I Rise, (2013) described by the Living Blues Magazine as ‘an masterpiece of musical African Americana’, or witness a live performance and you’ll recognize this group as something breathtakingly new, even as they honour old AfricanAmerican musical traditions. It’s all about the indomitable human spirit as expressed in hollers, spirituals, gospel and the blues of the AfricanAmerican South. The grit of low-down country and urban blues with the bold brass of New

Thursday 4 June 7.30pm £21.50, £24.50, £21.50 – Over thirty years ago Holly Johnson’s Frankie Goes to Hollywood generated mass pop hysteria comparable to Beatlemania. Their singles Two Tribes and Relax were at No 1 and 2, while the ‘Frankie Says …’ T-shirt became the year’s musthave fashion accessory. Johnson was born here in Liverpool and was actively involved in the city’s punk rock/New Wave scene of the late 1970s, playing bass with Big in Japan and releasing two solo singles on the Eric’s label before going on to huge fame as the lead singer and lyricist of Frankie Goes to

Hollywood. He lent his instantly recognizable vocals to hits such as Relax and The Power of Love, both of which topped UK charts making British pop history. His debut solo album, Blast, went platinum in 1989 and last year he released his first album for fifteen years, Europa, a euphoric, often-electronic-led return packed with positivity, celebrating love and dance. In 2014 he played a handful of live dates, the tour was his first since the final Frankie Goes to Hollywood shows in 1987. Don’t miss unique homecoming date! ‘On tour for the first time in three decades, Johnson is on sparkling form, his humour as cheeky as ever.’ The Guardian

‘An extraordinary outfit… unlike anything’s ever happened before.’ Paul Jones, BBC Radio2 ‘A welcome new sound bringing a sense of urgency to the Blues.’ All About Jazz

Elvis Costello Detour

Monday 15 June 8pm £37.50, £42.50, £47.50 – Elvis Costello returns to Liverpool Philharmonic with Detour a solo concert. Costello’s solo shows have been some of the most adventurous of his illustrious career. This past year has seen him hit the stage of the legendary Paris venue,

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l’Olympia and the Bela Bartok National concert Hall in Budapest. The New York Times said of his solo Carnegie Hall debut in June 2014, ‘Costello offered something else: a continuing, challenging, intimate engagement with his songs, old and new’. In July, he played the re-opening concert at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, headlined at Kew Gardens and played an intimate show at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-

on-Sea before touring the capital cities and small towns of Europe for five weeks in Autumn. ‘As a songwriter, his ability to conjure period as much as emotion is what commands a show like this.’ The Independent ‘The singer’s maturing voice takes his songs to even greater heights.’ theartsdesk

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Sunday 28 June 7.30pm £22.50, £28.50 – There are few living musicians who can lay claim to being the voice of America’s conscience. For six decades Mavis Staples has been the solid rock of American music. From the Delta-inflected gospel sound she helped create in the 1950s (Uncloudy Day), to the engaged protest of the civil rights era (Freedom Highway), and then on pop radio in the 1970s with a series of chart hits (I’ll Take You There, Respect Yourself, Lets Do It Again) - through all these her warm embrace of a voice has remained constant. Where her Stax-era hits spoke for a growing

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The Moody Blues Sunday 21 June 8pm £41.50, £47.50

The Overtones

Friday 19 June 7.30pm £21.50, £28.50, £38.50, £44.50 – The Overtones’ fourth album Sweet Soul Music is a tribute to doo-wop and soul pioneers such as The Drifters, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations, artists that The Overtones grew up listening to and who have influenced them throughout their career. The Overtones transport their audience back to the heady 1960s, with era-defining artists such as James Brown, The Temptations, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Supremes. The boys possess a unique ability to deliver consistently uplifting music infused with exquisitely crafted vocal harmonies. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. Please note: This concert is a fully seated event however dancing may be permitted at the artists’ discretion. If you wish to ensure an unrestricted view whilst remaining seated we recommend that you book seats in the Circle areas rather than Stalls.

Mavis Staples

Tuesday 16 June 7.30pm £28.50, £34.50, £38.50 – Pioneering American singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega returns to the UK this summer marking 30 years since the release of her self-titled debut album, and following last year’s critically acclaimed eighth studio album release, Tales From the Queen of Pentacles. Regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation, Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure out of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s. Her profound insight on the human experience has earned her followers of all ages and walks of life over a 30year career yielding critical acclaim and hit songs like Luka, Tom’s Diner and Marlene On The Wall amongst many others. Her music has also inspired a generation of female singer/songwriters such as KT Tunstall, Tracy Chapman and Alanis Morissette.

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Suzanne Vega

Fotheringay

Monday 22 June 7.30pm St. George’s Hall Concert Room £22.50 – Fotheringay are returning bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for a spectacular live performance that follows the release of their latest album Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay. The musical achievements and professional

One of the most enduring, creative and consistent groups in the world, The Moody Blues’ remarkable music has enthralled generations of fans since the 1960s. Their recorded legacy contains some of the most important and ground breaking work in the history of popular music, having generated over 55 million sales throughout the world and singles such as Go Now!, Nights in White Satin and I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock and Roll Band).

experiences of the band combined is too long to list and spans 40+ years. The line-up is original founding members Jerry Donahue on guitar, Gerry Conway on drums, Pat Donaldson on bass with very special guests PJ Wright, Kathryn Roberts and Sally Barker providing silky smooth and harmonious vocals as they respectfully fill the shoes of Sandy Denny. You couldn’t find folk who know more about folk.

black social consciousness, and her seventies collaborations with The Band gave spiritual weight to the rediscovery of traditional American music, her latest album is a pulpit from which Staples lends her voice to a search for grace. Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award recipient. VH1 named her one of the ‘100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll’, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the ‘100 Greatest Singers of All Time’. She won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2011, and is still writing remarkable new chapters in an already extraordinary career.

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Rufus Wainwright Vibrate

Monday 13 July 7.30pm £37.50, £47.50, £55 – Praised by the New York Times for his ‘genuine originality’, Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. The Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released seven studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums, including the fantastic Grammy nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni

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Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and Mark Ronson among others. In addition to being a celebrated pop singer, Wainwright has made a name for himself in the classical world. His much acclaimed first opera, titled Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival and was subsequently performed in London at Sadler’s Wells, in Toronto at the Luminato Festival and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. Now fully established as a composer of operas, he has been commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write his second which will premiere in Toronto in October 2018.

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Jools Holland

Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal Sunday 19 July 7.30pm £19.50, £23.50, £29.50 – Rosanne Cash won three Grammy Awards in February this year for her latest album The River & The Thread - Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song. Released last year The River & The Thread was the highest charting album of Cash’s career. Rolling Stone called it ‘remarkable,’ The New York Times pronounced it ‘superb’ and Newsweek hailed it as ‘the work of a lifetime.’ The album appears on numerous critics’ Best of the year lists, including The Huffington Post, Uncut and MOJO. Cash, was born in Memphis and raised in California. She has recorded fifteen albums, including 1981’s Seven Year Ache and 1987’s King’s Record Shop, both certified Gold, and she has received fifteen Grammy nominations.

& his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – featuring GILSON LAVIS with special guest MARC ALMOND and guest vocalists RUBY TURNER, LOUISE MARSHALL & MABEL RAY Monday 27 July 7.30pm £37.50, £43.50 – The undisputed King of boogiewoogie Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra bring you their trademark party experience and another stunning musical performance. Making a special guest appearance is Marc Almond. With long time guest vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall, Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra perform tracks spanning his entire solo career as well as songs taken from his latest album Sirens of Song which features an elite gathering of world-class female artists. Sirens Of Song highlights Jools’ talent for amazing collaborations and features duets with some of the most iconic female voices in contemporary and classic music.

absurdity and grandeur of the modern male armed only with their voices, a sly collection of hats and a staggering diversity of facial hair. It is unclear what is more dangerous to your general equilibrium: missing them, or not? ‘The lunacy is broken up with splashes of cuteness and poignancy and because of the sheer musical excellence… Highly entertaining.’ Sydney Morning Herald Book now at www.liverpoolphil.com

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FAMILY & VARIETY

Prom Praise

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The Casa Solidarity Show

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Friday 17 April 8pm £30, £36 – Twenty years ago Liverpool Dockers took part in one of the longest strikes in British history to defend the principle of never

Birkenhead & Formby Choral Societies and Merchant Taylor’s School

Choral Spectacular

Saturday 25 April 7.30pm £10, £18, £24 (under 19s half price) – Carl Orff Carmina Burana John Rutter Feel the Spirit Benjamin Britten Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Boys from Merchant Taylors’ School in Crosby, combine with the Choral Societies of Birkenhead and Formby again in the 12th concert in their series of collaborations. Three hundred singers will perform the dynamic, exciting and everpopular Carmina Burana, along with Rutter’s cycle of

crossing a picket line. The proceeds of a film about that strike allowed them to turn a disused building in Hope Street into The Casa - a radical meeting place where more than £10 million of free welfare advice has been handed to the neediest people on Merseyside. Due to loss of funding The Casa’s future is under threat. Which is why arrangements of popular Spirituals, Feel the Spirit. Supported by a full symphony orchestra who get us underway with Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, this is a spectacular concert and a fantastic introduction for anyone new to choral music, as well as an exciting opportunity to hear a fresh interpretation of old favourites.

comedians John Bishop, Ricky Tomlinson, Mark Steel and Neil Fitzmaurice and musicians The Farm and John Power have come together for an unforgettable fund-raising concert to ensure this treasured Hope Street institution stays alive.

with All Souls Orchestra, featuring Graham Kendrick Saturday 6 June 7.30pm £10, £12.50, £16.50, £19, £23, £27 (a programme is included in the price of the ticket). – A unique blend of live music, word and worship, combining the spirit of Songs of Praise and the world-famous Last Night of the Proms, Prom Praise returns to Liverpool Philharmonic with special guests including internationally-renowned worship leader, Graham Kendrick, and Bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes. Presented by the All Souls Orchestra and the Merseyside Prom Praise Choir under the energetic direction of conductor Noël Tredinnick, Prom Praise is a feast of orchestral and vocal music. There is an element of celebration, too, when Noël and the Orchestra invite the audience to stand and join in singing some favourite hymns and worship songs, or sit to contemplate the words of solos or speakers. Alongside distinguished special guests come all the familiar features of Prom Praise, with the Orchestra joined by the choir gathered from all round Merseyside and outstanding soprano, HelenJane Howells and stunning violin solo from Rebecca Dinning.

League of Welldoers Variety Benefit Show

Friday 22 May 2pm £10.45, £11.45 (group discounts available) – The League of Welldoers presents a variety benefit concert featuring some of Merseyside’s finest entertainers. Help support one of Liverpool’s oldest independent charities.

Unlimited Voices The No.1 Concert Hits from the past 50 Years

Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies

Saturday 20 June 6pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 £7 under 25s, students & claimants – Nick Davies conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday 7 June 7.30pm £14, £16, £16.50, £18.50, £19 – A concert full of wonderful number 1 hits from the past 50 years, performed by the massed choir of Unlimited Voices, including House of the Rising Sun, Chain Reaction, Love is All Around and Hallelujah. Enjoy this concert which will bring back lots of memories as music has the magical ability to transport you back in time. Aladdin, The Lion King or Disney’s hit Frozen. But they never forget the classics, from a Mary Poppins medley to The Little Mermaid. This concert guarantees fun for the whole family, complete with Disney sing-alongs. Why not dress up as your favourite Disney character?

Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies, is a concert and multi-media experience featuring four incredible singers and scenes from your best-loved Disney movies projected above the Orchestra.

Every generation has a favourite Disney musical, whether it’s Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame,

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the captaincy, Kevin Pietersen and many other subjects he has hit out on in his latest autobiography, on air and in print. The show is peppered with hilarious anecdotes, the audience can tweet Aggers live with their own questions and the evening will, as ever, be fun, fiery and full of surprises!

Boycott & Aggers: The Second Innings!

Tuesday 15 September 7.30pm £23, £28 – The extraordinary odd couple return again by popular demand to enthral, dazzle and entertain in a new show…With the Ashes coming round again this summer Aggers challenges GB to justify his forthright views on cricket and life in general and our Geoffrey will say exactly what he thinks (what else?) about the ECB, England’s management and coaching staff, team selection,

‘It’s lucky he wasn’t a politician otherwise he might have blown up the world!’ Malcolm Tate, childhood friend of Geoffrey Boycott The event is being run in association with the Professional Cricketers Association, raising money for the organisation’s Benevolent Fund.

Liverpool Welsh Choral and West Kirby Light Opera Society

Victory in Europe A Gala Concert Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choirs Summer Concert

Saturday 4 July 6pm £9 adults, £6 concessions £2 Young Musicians’ Pass – Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir, Liverpool Philharmonic Training Choir and Melody

Makers take to the stage for the final performance of their 2015/16 Season. Performing pieces by composers as diverse as Aaron Copland, Stephen Hatfield, and Richard Rodney Bennett, the choirs will perform separately to showcase their achievements from the past year before coming together for a spectacular finale.

Sunday 27 September 7.15pm £12, £18, £24, £26, £28 – 150 voices of the renowned Liverpool Welsh Choral and the superb theatre company and chorus of West Kirby Light Opera Society, Sir Winston Churchill look-alike actor Brian Herbert, the famous White Cliffs of Dover Dancers and the magnificent Northop Silver Band bring you the very best of wartime music and more in a spectacular evening presented by BBC Radio Merseyside’s

Roger Phillips and featuring special guest star George Gallagher, winner of TV’s Frank Sinatra’s Our Way programme. A spectacular finale with members of all our armed forces with sound and lighting effects take you back to the joy that filled the Nation on VE Day. Enjoy music including Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Hitler, O’ When the Saints go Marching in, Hallelujah chorus, great Frank Sinatra’s songs, Colonel Bogey, The Dam Busters Theme, The Andrews Sisters, We’re going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line, Blaze Away, Land of Hope and Glory and many more.

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LEARNING

Classic Intros

– Our free pre-concert Classic Intros and Off the Podium post-concert talks and interviews with visiting artists and scholars are a great way to get more from the performance. The talks are free to all ticket-holders. Thursday 30 April 6.15pm

Norman Lebrecht, one of the most widelyread commentators on music, culture and politics, regular presenter on BBC radio 3 and author of Why Mahler? returns to Liverpool to speak about Mahler’s Resurrection symphony. Thursday 21 May 6.15pm

Conductor Thomas Dausgaard talks about tonight’s programme of Sibelius symphonies.

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Workshops for Children

Baby Voices

Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool. – These workshops help to develop children’s musical skills, with singing, movement, instrumental work, and of course the opportunity to meet musicians from Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and hear them perform! Each session is led by two musicians and will be held at Liverpool Central Library.

Suggested age 0-18 months

Saturday 25 April 10am-10.45am £6 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £6 – The perfect introduction to making music with your baby, these 45 minute workshops will involve songs, movement, and active listening. Wordsheets and suggestions on how to make music at home with your baby will be provided.

We have provided suggested age ranges for guidance only.

Toddler Tunes Suggested age 18-36 months

Saturday 25 April 11.30am-12.15pm £6 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £6. – Songs and games to help your young child develop his/her musicianship and creativity, including ways to ‘tune in’ to your child using child-led music making. Wordsheets and suggestions on how to make music at home with your young child will be provided.

Little Notes Suggested age 3-5 years

Saturday 25 April 2pm-2.45pm & 3.30pm-4.15pm £7 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £7. – Your child will explore pitch and rhythm through songs and activities, develop their creativity through exploration and performance with percussion instruments, and learn more about instruments of the orchestra.

Post-concert Discussions

– We’re delighted to continue our series of very popular post-concert discussions this season. This is your chance to ask questions of world-famous artists and hear their perspectives on music.

The events are free to all ticket holders and sessions begin 15 minutes after the concert ends in the Grand Foyer.

Thursday 23 April

Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto and Artist in Residence cellist Giovanni Sollima.

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SuperSing! Rehearsals Thursday 21 May 7pm-9pm Thursday 28 May 7pm-9pm Thursday 4 June 7pm-9pm Thursday 11 June 7pm-9pm Thursday 18 June 7pm-9pm Thursday 25 June 5.30pm-8.30pm

SuperOrchestra!

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Saturday 27 June Rehearsals 9.30am-3.30pm Performance 4.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – SuperOrchestra! is your chance to rehearse and perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. If you are Grade 6 standard and above, you are invited to take part in this unique event led by a professional conductor where you’ll perform well-known orchestral works alongside players from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. We still have places left for viola, cello, double bass and harp players. Please phone 0151 709 3789 to book.

Performance Super! Concert on Saturday 27 June 2015 4.30pm Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – This is your chance to perform as part of a massed choir alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. SuperSing! is for singers and non-singers alike. Previous singing experience is not required, but energy and

enthusiasm are essential! Scores will be provided, however you will not be required to read music in order to participate, and additional resources will be provided to help you learn your part.

This year we have made a very special addition to the final performance, where you’ll be joined by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra! – Repertoire: Carl Orff ‘O Fortuna’ from Carmina Burana Mozart ‘Là ci darem la mano’ from Don Giovanni Verdi ‘Dies Irae’ from Requiem Handel ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Messiah Handel ‘Art Thou Troubled’ from Rodelina – Ian Chesworth conductor

Respighi Pines of Rome Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz – Clark Rundell conductor

Music, Memories and Memorabilia: Liverpool Philharmonic Heritage Fair

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – Celebrating 175 Years of the Original Liverpool Sound

Exhibition closes Sunday 2 August Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool Free admission, no ticket required

Do come along and explore Liverpool Philharmonic’s relationship with a cast of thousands including Charles Dickens, Thomas Beecham, Henry Wood, Malcolm Sargent and Paul McCartney. Discover more about the great fire that destroyed the original Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 1933 and about the impact of the Second World War. Journey with us as we travel from the 1840s to 2015, taking in tradition, triumphs and a few tantrums en route.

Tom Hutchinson, Leanne Langley and Fiona Palmer: Philharmonic Societies. Wednesday 22 April 2.30pm Advance booking required. Free tickets available from Liverpool Philharmonic Box Office 0151 709 3789. Y ED IT IT IL M B LI ILA A AV

Our exhibition at Liverpool Central Library celebrates the long and fascinating history of Liverpool Philharmonic, reminding you of some old friends along the way and placing the organisation within the context of Liverpool’s history throughout that time.

Tom, Projects Coordinator at the Royal Philharmonic Society, Leanne, Social Historian of Music in Britain, and Fiona, Professor of Music at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, will place Liverpool Philharmonic within the broader context of Philharmonic Societies and their history.

Saturday 25 April 10.30am-4pm Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool Free admission, no ticket is required – Do you have some memories of Liverpool Philharmonic you’d like to share? Do you own an item of memorabilia that tells a story you’d like to share with us? Why not come on down to the Liverpool Central Library and talk to us. We’d love to see you there and to share the part in your life that Liverpool Philharmonic has played!

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

Pictures from an Exhibition

Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Weber Overture to Oberon Beethoven Violin Concerto Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition – Richard Farnes conductor Chloë Hanslip violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

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Beloved Brahms

Saturday 11 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Mendelssohn Overture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 Brahms Symphony No.2

Gilbert Varga conductor Anna Vinnitskaya piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – ‘A lioness at the keyboard’ – that’s how one critic described Anna Vinnitskaya. And since she’s making her Liverpool debut with Prokofiev’s ferocious Piano Concerto No.2, you’ll be able to hear exactly why! Prokofiev’s revolutionary concerto is the powerhouse at the centre of this first Liverpool appearance from the hugely respected conductor Gilbert Varga: an electrifying contrast to the feather-light fantasy of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream overture, and a powerful upbeat to the sunlit meadows and joyous trumpets of Brahms’ lyrical Second Symphony. Sponsored by

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The Interpretation of Dreams Giovanni Sollima cello Monika Leskovar cello

Saturday 18 April 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25 – Marin Marais Suite in D minor from Pièces de Violes, Deuxième livre Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Giovanni Sollima The Interpretation of Dreams

Composer, improviser, performance artist, and cellist of jaw-dropping virtuosity and flair...there’s simply no one way of describing the many-sided musical phenomenon that is Giovanni Sollima. He refuses to be categorized: the best way of describing this concert with fellow-cellist (and regular collaborator) Monika Leskovar is to say that it begins with the sublimely inventive music of baroque France, and ends deep inside Sollima’s own extraordinary musical imagination. And that the journey will be unforgettable. ARTISTS in RESIDENCE

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Maybe it was the vodka talking, but when Modest Mussorgsky set out to tell a story in music, he made it a good one! Gnomes, talking skulls and a whole row of dancing chicks...Pictures at an Exhibition is simply one of the most fabulously imaginative halfhours you’ll ever hear, and in Ravel’s lavish orchestral version, it sparkles and shines with all the colours of a Russian carnival. Opera North music director Richard Farnes really knows how to do drama, so expect thrills, spills, and poetry too, as he joins one of Britain’s most engaging violinists in Beethoven’s sunlit and serene Violin Concerto. Weber’s fairytale overture gets the magic started.

‘He makes me look like a pussycat… He’s a supervirtuoso of the cello. He studied with Antonio Janigro but plays like a jazz musician and is part performance artist. He has no fear.’ Yo Yo Ma on Giovanni Sollima

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joined by Manchester Camerata to perform some of his most memorable scores and themes from film and television including: Independence Day, Stargate, the James Bond films (Casino Royale, The World Is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies and others), The Chronicles of Narnia, Godzilla, Hot Fuzz, Paul, The London 2012 Olympic Games, Made in Dagenham, the hit TV show Sherlock and more. David will also share an insight into the world of a Bond film composer and songwriter, telling anecdotes from his illustrious career.

Boléro

South of the Border

Thursday 23 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Ravel Rhapsodie Espagnole Sollima Antidotum Tarantulae XXI (Antidote to Tarantulas XXI), Concerto for Two Cellos De Falla Suite, The Three Cornered Hat Chávez Symphony No.2, ‘Sinfonia India’ Moncayo Huapango – Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Giovanni Sollima cello Jonathan Aasgaard cello Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Spiders, carnivals, and antelope hooves… south of the border, things can get wild! And as Mexico’s leading conductor makes his Liverpool debut, he’s cooked up a fiesta of a programme: beginning in Ravel’s sultry Spanish night, and ending with José Pablo Moncayo’s flamboyant Mexican folkdance and Mexico’s most famous foot tapping piece of classical music. In between, Carlos

Chávez celebrates the ancient cultures of Central America, Manuel de Falla thwarts a Spanish seducer, and the one and only Giovanni Sollima – Liverpool Philharmonic’s current Artist in Residence – makes his cello dance like something’s bitten it. Blazing colours, fiery rhythms and spicy tunes: this concert positively bursts with flavour.

Sunday 26 April 2.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations for cello and orchestra Ravel Alborado del gracioso De Falla Suite, The Three Cornered Hat Ravel Boléro – Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Giovanni Sollima cello Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Warmth in the air, the scent of orange blossom on a gentle breeze…there’s something magical about a southern summer night. Mexico’s Carlos Miguel Prieto knows how to conjure up that enchantment, whether in the glittering sounds and dream-waltzes of Maurice Ravel or the Spanish perfumes of Manuel de Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat. Artist in Residence Giovanni Sollima brings a very Italian panache to Tchaikovsky’s playful Rococo Variations, and Prieto rounds it all off with the ultimate in Latin passion. You know the rhythm, you know the tune, and whether or not you’re old enough to remember Torvill and Dean, there’s still only one Boléro!

Post-concert Discussion (Starts 15 minutes after the concert) Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto and Artist in Residence cellist Giovanni Sollima answer your questions about tonight’s performance. ARTISTS in RESIDENCE

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Tchaikovsky Birthday Salute

Thursday 7 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Graham Fitkin Intimate Curve

World Premiere Liverpool Philharmonic 175th Anniversary Commission

Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’

Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Mahler Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection’ – Sir Andrew Davis conductor Erin Wall soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – A man stands alone at the grave of a friend. Shattered by grief, he shakes his fist at the heavens, and takes the first step on a journey that will take him to the end of the world itself. This is Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, and if it sounds incredible on paper, just wait till you hear it live! It’s quite simply overwhelming – and if you only know it from recordings, you haven’t really heard it at all. Sir Andrew Davis, whose association with Liverpool spans back to the early 1960s, joins the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, two A-list singers and a full Orchestra. Prepare yourself for this poignant symphony. Classic Intro Thursday 30 April 6.15pm Norman Lebrecht, one of the most widely read commentators on music, culture and politics, regular presenter on BBC Radio 3 and author of Why Mahler? returns to Liverpool to speak about Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.7 – Dima Slobodeniouk conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – ‘I am the new Bacchus, pressing out glorious wine for the human spirit’. Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t known for his modesty – but until you’ve heard his incredible Seventh Symphony in full, heartpounding flight, you’ve never known just how intoxicating music can be! In his Liverpool debut, the dynamic young Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk goes for broke; first, though, he joins violinist Alina Ibragimova (‘breath taking’ The Guardian) for a birthday salute to Tchaikovsky: 175 years old today! And to open, a fabulous explosion of colour from one of the most entertaining British composers of our time – the first performance anywhere in the world of Graham Fitkin’s stunning new Concerto for Orchestra, Intimate Curve which continues the series of special commissions for the Orchestra in Liverpool Philharmonic’s 175th year. Fitkin describes this piece by saying ‘all the musicians become soloists for the night as the spotlight of scrutiny swings unerringly from instrument to instrument.’

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

Sunday 10 May 2.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Sibelius En Saga Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.7 – Dima Slobodeniouk conductor Alina Ibragimova violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – In his Liverpool debut the dynamic young Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk joins Alina Ibragimova – according to The Arts Desk, ‘the most questing and lively young violinist of our time’ to revel in the endless melody of Tchaikovsky’s muchloved Violin Concerto, with Sibelius’s powerful Nordic drama En Saga setting the mood. Also featured is Beethoven’s incredible Seventh Symphony, referred to by Wagner as the ‘apotheosis of the dance’. Join us for a wonderful Sunday afternoon of great music. Kids Club ReCommended

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Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

Sunday 17 May 7.30pm £9 adults, £6 under 25s £2 Liverpool Young Musicians Pass

Enescu Rumanian Rhapsody in D major, No.2 Mozart Horn Concerto in E flat major, No.2 Johann Strauss II By the Beautiful Blue Danube Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier – Simon Emery conductor Timothy Doyle horn* *Winner of the 2015/16 Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition

Sir Simon Rattle Patron

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra horn player Timothy Doyle was the winner of the orchestra’s 2015/16 concerto competition and will perform Mozart’s Horn Concerto in E flat major, No.2 this evening. This concert also includes a visit to Romania through Enescu’s Rumanian Rhapsody and Johann Strauss’ By the Beautiful Blue Danube, before Richard Strauss’ suite from his comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra brings together the region’s best young musicians to make music, inspire one another and produce exhilarating performances at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

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Virtuoso Brahms

Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Dvor˘ák Symphony No.7 – Vasily Petrenko conductor Paul Lewis piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – On Vasily Petrenko’s signal, Johannes Brahms unleashes hell. Brahms was young, gifted, and desperately in love, and he channelled all his torment into this maelstrom of a piano concerto. Tonight,

Paul Lewis enters the inferno – and even for one of the world’s greatest living virtuosos, this should be a thrilling challenge. After the interval, there’s no letting up: the Seventh Symphony by Brahms’ great friend Dvořák is every bit as powerful, combining national pride, personal tragedy and melodies that you’ll be humming all week. Here in Liverpool, it’s a real signature work – some say that no orchestra west of Prague plays it better than the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. ARTISTS in RESIDENCE

Sibelius’ Symphonies

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Paul Lewis, piano

Tuesday 26 May 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25 – Beethoven: The Final Three Piano Sonatas No.30 in E major, Op.109 No.31 in A flat major, Op.110 No.32 in C minor, Op.111 – Paul Lewis was born in Huyton, and his reputation as an interpreter of the great classics of the piano repertoire has gone around the world. Famed for his Schubert interpretations, anything that Lewis chooses to play demands to be heard, and it’s fascinating that for this recital as part of his Y

Classic Intro 6.15pm Conductor Thomas Dausgaard speaks about tonight’s programme of Sibelius symphonies.

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Thursday 21 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Sibelius Symphony No.5 Symphony No.6 Symphony No.7 – Thomas Dausgaard conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Conductor Thomas Dausgaard writes: “While every single symphony of Sibelius seems to be a world of its own, together these last three take on something largerthan-life-like, almost like an opera when performed in one evening. At the time of composition, many entries in Sibelius’ diary simply say ‘Op.82, 104 & 105’ (the opus numbers of these symphonies!) telling us that they were brewing in his mind simultaneously. The life affirming No.5 can be such a rousing end to a concert, yet in this context it is preparing us for the raw and mysterious No.6. No.7, which is seldom allowed to be at the end of a concert, finally gets to sum up the many characters, moods and emotions of them all in one single sweep.”

Liverpool residency, he’s gone for Beethoven’s visionary final trilogy of piano sonatas – playful, elusive and ravishingly beautiful; music that asks the very deepest questions. Lewis’s answers will be profoundly worth hearing. ‘These performances are a transparent act of musical love and devotion. Nothing is exaggerated yet virtually everything is included. Of all the modern versions of the [Beethoven] sonatas, Lewis’s is surely the most eloquent and persuasive.’ Gramophone ARTISTS in RESIDENCE

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The Dream of Gerontius

Petrenko’s Elgar

Friday 29 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Janác˘ek Suite, From the House of the Dead Berg Early Songs Elgar Symphony No.1 – Vasily Petrenko conductor Lisa Larsson soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – When Elgar’s First Symphony was first performed in 1908, the Manchester audience simply stood up and cheered. A century on, it’s still one of the greatest journeys in British music, beginning and ending with what might be the most unforgettable tune even Elgar ever composed. For Vasily Petrenko, it’s all about the emotion, and so he’s paired it with music in which two more great composers lay bare their souls: Janáček’s moving hymn to the human spirit, and shimmering love songs from the Vienna of Mahler and Klimt, performed today by one of Europe’s most admired operatic sopranos.

Crosby Symphony Orchestra Helping to fundraise for local charities

Power and Majesty

Sunday 5 July 2.30pm £15, £18 (under 18s £5, £9) – Walton Spitfire Prelude & Fugue Gershwin Porgy & Bess, a Symphonic Picture Saint-Saens Symphony No.3 (with organ) – Edward Peak conductor Ian Tracey organ –

Saturday 13 June 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Elgar The Dream of Gerontius – Vasily Petrenko conductor Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Toby Spence tenor Roderick Williams bass Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir – ‘This is the best of me’ wrote Edward Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius. So forget everything you thought you knew about religious music – and about Elgar. It’s more like an opera than an oratorio: the story of a lonely soul’s journey towards eternity, told in music of startling passion and breathtaking beauty. We’re proud that this Orchestra made the first ever recording of Gerontius; so what better way to mark the first half of our 175th anniversary celebrations than with Vasily Petrenko, the Orchestra, the Choir and three great British singers sharing music that comes straight from the heart? Sponsored by

Crosby Symphony Orchestra returns for its end of season concert. Gloriously French throughout, the music unfolds to a fantastic, powerful finale with a large orchestra and organ at full volume - excitement guaranteed! The concert begins with Walton’s Spitfire Prelude and Fugue. Written for the film The First of the Few, it depicts the mechanical and emotional power of the legendary aircraft, and was first performed at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 1943 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by

A Little Night Music

Wednesday 17 & Thursday 18 June 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 – Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik Mozart Piano Concerto No.12 in A Major, K.414* Schumann Piano Concerto* Mendelssohn String Symphony No.2 in D# – Paul Lewis piano/director* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Any star pianist can play up a storm in a great concerto; part of what makes Paul Lewis so special is his love of collaboration – of pooling his musicianship with friends and colleagues in search of a deeper musical truth. This exquisite programme finds him stepping forward as first amongst equals to direct and perform Mozart’s very personal concerto: exactly as Amadeus would have done himself. Schumann’s lyrical love-letter of a piano concerto is ideally suited to Lewis’s unmatched combination of virtuosity and poetry.

Walton himself. As for the Gershwin, remember Summertime, Bess, You is My Woman Now, It Ain’t Necessarily So and I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin? You’ll hear them all in this performance of a suite arranged from Gershwin’s epic opera Porgy & Bess.

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies

Saturday 20 June 6pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 £7 under 25’s, students & claimants – Nick Davies conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra –

Every generation has a favourite Disney musical, whether it’s Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, The Lion King or Disney’s hit Frozen. But they never forget the classics, from a Mary Poppins medley to The Little Mermaid. This concert guarantees fun for the whole family, complete with Disney singalongs. Why not dress up as your favourite Disney character?

White Nights

Thursday 2 July 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 £7 under 25’s, students & claimants – Tchaikovsky Excerpts from Swan Lake Glazunov Violin Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No.1 – Vasily Petrenko conductor Alexandru Tomescu violin – Join Vasily Petrenko and violinist Alexandru Tomescu for this evening of stirring Russian classics as the summer days lengthen! Glazunov’s Violin Concerto, composed in 1904, is lyrical in nature with bittersweet melodies. Maestro Petrenko has won plaudits for his interpretation of Rachmaninov and this performance should prove no exception.

Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman

Wednesday 8 July 7.30pm £17, £25, £29, £36, £45 £7 under 25’s, students & claimants – Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman – Cast includes: Béla Perencz The Dutchman Alwyn Mellor Senta Mats Almgren Daland Mati Turi Erik Ceri Williams Mary Matt Le Brocq Steerman – Richard Farnes conductor Peter Mumford concert staging Orchestra of Opera North – Liverpool Philharmonic, as part of its 175th Anniversary celebrations, is delighted to announce a new partnership with Opera North, who bring Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, a work that Wagner regarded as the true beginning of his career as a musical dramatist, to the stage of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The myth of the Dutchman, doomed to wander the seas eternally unless he finds redemption through a woman’s love, treats themes that were to recur throughout the rest of Wagner’s career. From this material, he constructed a thrillingly taut music drama that grips from the first, storm-tossed notes of the famous overture, to the work’s resplendent final moments of transfiguration.

With its infectiously hummable tunes, it’s the ideal Wagner opera for first-timers.

Like Opera North’s highly acclaimed Ring, The Flying Dutchman will be presented in a concert staging by Peter Mumford, and conducted by the Company’s Music Director Richard Farnes. Lasts approximately 2 hours 30 mins with no interval. Sung in German with English titles Financially supported by the Opera North Future Fund

‘Petrenko instinctively conveys the essential quality of soul that the interpretation of Rachmaninov requires.’ The Telegraph

‘Could this be the best Russian orchestra outside Russia?’ Financial Times Book now at www.liverpoolphil.com

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Stars and Stripes

The John Lennon Song Book

Saturday 11 July 7.30pm Sunday 12 July 2.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 £7 under 25’s, students & claimants – Mark McGann and Polly Gibbons singers Clark Rundell conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Following the sell-out success of the John Lennon Song Book performed in 2008 and 2010, including performances in Shanghai and Beijing, Liverpool Philharmonic presents an updated hit parade of Lennon classics arranged for symphony orchestra including In My Life, Julia, A Day in the Life, All You Need is Love, Strawberry Fields, Ticket to Ride and many more. The jazz singer Polly Gibbons, one of the most respected and talked about singers of her generation, and Liverpool favourite, actor and vocalist Mark McGann take centre stage in the music and memories of one of the ‘four lads who shook the world’. The show is scripted by writer/director Bob Eaton, author of the Liverpool Everyman’s 1981 hit Lennon, which made a star out of a teenage Mark McGann, with images to accompany the story of this star’s epic life.

Thursday 16 July 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 £7 under 25s, students & claimants – David Charles Abell conductor and presenter Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – From Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Suite to Berstein’s Candide Overture, Americanborn conductor David Charles Abell and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will raise the star-spangled banner in a night of great American sound. Join them as they celebrate America’s best-loved composers including Sousa, Sondheim and Korngold’s Sea Hawk (from the movie featuring Errol Flynn), and of course John Williams one of today’s best-known film music composers.

Last Night of the Summer Pops

Saturday 18 July 7.30pm £16, £21, £28, £33, £40 – David Charles Abell conductor and presenter Jennifer Pike violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – We welcome British-American conductor David Charles Abell to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for another fabulous Last Night of the Summer Pops. What Last Night celebrations would be complete without the much-loved classics Jerusalem and Pomp and Circumstance alongside some British greats including Vaughan Williams’ Greensleeves, Delius A Walk to the Paradise Garden and the music to Downtown Abbey. The chorus will be in full voice with Parry’s I Was Glad and more. A thrilling concert for a mid-summer’s evening!

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COMEDY & SPOKEN WORD

‘Jokes as sharp as barbed wire and a comedy brain quicker than a steel trap… Rarely have the rafters of the Playhouse shook so dangerously to the sound of laughter.’ ★★★★ The Scotsman

Dylan Moran Off The Hook

Saturday 2 May 8pm £25, £31 – The star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead and Calvary is back with his new stand up show. He returns to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for the first time since 2004.

‘A supremely confident performer, his timing for delivering punchlines is something special.’ ★★★★ The Telegraph ‘It didn’t falter for a moment. This is stand-up comedy of the first order... there’s scarcely a word wasted... seriously good fun.’ ★★★★ The Times

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Friday 17 April 8pm £30, £36 – Twenty years ago Liverpool Dockers took part in one of the longest strikes in British history to defend the principle of never crossing a picket line. The proceeds of a film about that strike allowed them to turn a disused building in Hope Street into The Casa - a radical meeting place where more than £10 million of free welfare advice has been handed to the neediest people on Merseyside. Due to loss of funding The Casa’s future is under threat.

Reginald D Hunter The Man Who Attempted To Do As Much As Such Sunday 10 May 8pm £24, £30 – Following sell-out tours of Europe and Australia, and critically acclaimed debut tours of New Zealand and Scandinavia Reginald brings his own unique blend of humour back to Liverpool Philharmonic. In the fifteen years since he began performing, Reginald D Hunter has become one of UK Comedy’s

Which is why comedians John Bishop, Ricky Tomlinson, Mark Steel and Neil Fitzmaurice and musicians The Farm and John Power have come together for an unforgettable fund-raising concert to ensure this treasured Hope Street institution stays alive.

Saturday 9 May 8pm £20, £25, £31 – Following the success of December’s Laughterhouse Live show Laughterhouse returns. Confirmed in the line up so far are Geordie comedy giant Chris Ramsey (Live at The Apollo, Hebburn, Mock The Week), Scouse comedy master Mick Miller (The Comedians, Ideal, The Royal Variety Performance) and Canadian comedy superstar Tom Stade (Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow) and, your host, Laughterhouse favourite and Liverpool Comedian of the Year Chris Cairns.

‘Frighteningly talented... tearing up every stage he lands on.’ GQ on Chris Ramsey

‘Funny, but not as funny as me!’ Frank Carson on Mick Miller ‘So cool he could well be the answer to global warming.’ The Scotsman on Tom Stade

‘Liverpool’s very own Big Yin’ Liverpool Echo on MC Chris Cairns

Please note this show will feature adult language and content and parental guidance is advised for under 16s. Line-up may be subject to change.

best-known and most distinctive performers. His work is often brutally honest, frequently controversial but always meticulously measured and thought out. The Independent says he ‘shimmers with stage presence’ and his ‘comic timing is sharp enough to burst balloons.’ ‘A comedian going for broke, flying in the face of received opinion in a way that is simply exhilarating... this is comedy of a rare scope.’ ★★★★★ The Times Please note this show will feature adult language and content and parental guidance is advised for under 14s.

Book now at www.liverpoolphil.com

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The Spooky Men’s Chorale

Kevin Bridges A Whole Different Story...

Thursday 3 September 7.30pm £17.50, £23.50 – Based in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia the Spooky Men’s Chorale is a black-clad behemoth, seemingly capable of rendering audiences moist eyed with appreciation or grinning with merriment. With grand foolishness the Spooky Men seek to commentate on the absurdity and grandeur of the modern male armed only with their voices, a sly collection of hats and a staggering diversity of facial hair. It is unclear what is more dangerous to your general equilibrium: missing them, or not?

: EXTRA DATE ADDED Monday 22 June 8pm

Stewart Lee: A Room With A Stew

Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 June 8pm £21, £27 – Catch this brand new live show with fresh material in preparation for Stewart’s next BBC2 series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. ‘Best comedian in Britain.’ ★★★★★ Mirror "What is exhilarating is how many surprises he still throws in and how deft his jumps are from one tone to another... invigorating.’ ★★★★ Times ‘More skilful and playful than ever.’ ★★★★ Guardian

‘He is... the only comedian who can get away with deconstructing and critiquing his own routines as he goes along and not be repellent. He, and his material, are simply that good.’ ★★★★ Independent Please note this show will feature adult language and content and parental guidance is advised for under 16s.

Boycott & Aggers: The Second Innings!

Tuesday 23 June (SOLD OUT) £25, £31 – Kevin Bridges in a brand new show A Whole Different Story... Dubbed ‘brilliant’ by one of his comedy idols Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges has had an astonishing rise to success. His 2012 tour, Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues... smashed box office records selling a staggering 45,000 tickets on the first day. Bridges went on to sell out an incredible nine-show run at the Glasgow SECC Arena. The last twelve months have seen him hosting three shows for BBC1 including a referendum special of his critically acclaimed documentaries Kevin Bridges – What’s The Story and stand up shows on the Commonwealth Games and the Scottish Referendum. October marks another momentous chapter in his career with his autobiography We Need To Talk About… being released through Penguin Books. Suitable for those 14 years or over (Parental Guidance - Likely to be adult language & content).

with hilarious anecdotes, the audience can tweet Aggers live with their own questions and the evening will, as ever, be fun, fiery and full of surprises! ‘It’s lucky he wasn’t a politician otherwise he might have blown up the world!’ Malcolm Tate, childhood friend of Geoffrey Boycott The event is being run in association with the Professional Cricketers Association, raising money for the organisation’s Benevolent Fund.

‘The lunacy is broken up with splashes of cuteness and poignancy and because of the sheer musical excellence… Highly entertaining.’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘It’s his eye for details that has elevated him to a MUSTSEE act.’ Daily Mirror ‘Truthful, natural and hilarious.’ Sunday Herald

Alan Carr Yap, Yap, Yap!

Friday 18 & Saturday 19 September 8pm £30, £36 – No stranger to yap Alan Carr is yapping his way around the UK & Ireland with his brand new stand up show Yap, Yap, Yap! The BAFTA and British Comedy Award winning comedian, author and chat show supremo returns to his stand up roots with his hilarious take on life. Yap it up. ‘An absolute natural on stage... a born storyteller, sheer entertainment.’ London Evening Standard Please note this show will feature adult language and content and parental guidance is advised for under 14s.

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Suite Française

Thursday 14 May 11am £6, £7 or £15 inc. brunch or 2 course lunch – Director Saul Dibb 2015 Running time 107mins Starring Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Margot Robbie, Lambert Wilson – Over fifty years after acclaimed novelist Irène Némirovsky’s death in a concentration camp, her daughter found the courage to read her journals. What she discovered was an incredible story...Set in 1940s France the film follows beautiful Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war whilst leading a stifled existence with her domineering mother-in-law. When Parisian refugees pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers’ homes, Lucile’s life is turned upside down. This is a powerful story of love in the tragedy of war.

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Tuesday 14 April 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director Sam Taylor Johnson 2015 Running time tbc Starring Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden – When Anastasia Steele interviews the wealthy Christian Grey, she encounters a beautiful, brilliant and intimidating man. Innocent and naïve, Ana realises she wants him. Unable to resist Grey wants her too, but on his own terms. Grey is consumed by the need to control everything. As they get close Ana starts to explore her own desires.

Catch a mid-morning film screening and then retire to the glorious surroundings of our newly refurbished art-deco Grand Foyer for brunch or lunch.

Some Like it Hot 12A

Thursday 16 April 11am £6, £7 or £15 inc. brunch or 2 course lunch – Director Billy Wilder 1959 Running time 116 mins Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown – Two Chicago musicians witness the St. Valentine’s Day massacre and the only job to get them out of town is with an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne and mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden when Spats Colombo and his crew arrive for a meeting with several other crime lords.

Contains mild violence and sex references.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel PG

Wednesday 22 April 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director John Madden 2015 Running time 122 minutes Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy – The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny who has his eye on a promising property now that his first venture only has a single remaining vacancy. As the demands of his traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf him, an unexpected way forward presents itself. Contains mild bad language and sex references.

Birdman

Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Wednesday 20 May 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu 2014 Running time 119mins Starring Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts

The winner of six BAFTAs and four Academy Awards including the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, this black comedy tells the story of a washed-up actor (Michael Keaton), who once played an iconic superhero, as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to the opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself. Book now at www.liverpoolphil.com

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A Little Chaos

Sunday 24 May 7.30pm & Thursday 11 June 11am* £6, £7

Shaun the Sheep

*Film plus brunch or 2 course lunch for £15 (11 June only) – Director Alan Rickman 2015 Running time tbc Starring Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Jennifer Ehle

A Little Chaos follows Sabine (Kate Winslet), a strong-willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV’s new palace at Versailles, causing her to become professionally and romantically entangled with the court’s renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts).

Sunday 24 May 3pm £6, £7 – Directors Richard Starzak, Mark Burton 2015 Running time 85min Starring Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes – When Shaun’s mischief inadvertently leads to the Farmer being taken away from the farm, Shaun, Bitzer and the flock have to go into the big city to rescue him, setting the stage for an epic adventure. Another Aardman Animations classic!

Woman in Gold

Sunday 14 June 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director Simon Curtis 2015 Running time tbc Starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Pryce – The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family. Sixty years after she fled Vienna

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Tuesday 30 June 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director Thomas Vinterberg Running time 119mins Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple – Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, the film is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who

Cinderella

Sunday 14 June 3pm £6, £7 – Director Kenneth Branagh 2015 Running time 112mins Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter, Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera – A live-action feature film inspired by the classic fairy tale, Cinderella brings to life the timeless images from Disney’s 1950 animated masterpiece as fully-realised characters in a visually-dazzling spectacle. Starring Lily James as Cinderella, Cate Blanchett as the wicked step-mother, Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera as the evil step-sisters, Richard Madden as the dashing Prince Charming and Helena Bonham Carter as the magical Fairy God Mother. Where there is kindness, there is goodness. Where there is goodness, there is magic!

during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting ‘The Lady in Gold’. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.

attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching wilfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

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Home

Sunday 26 July 3pm £6, £7 – Director Tim Johnson 2015 Running time 96mins Starring Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin – When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word Home.

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Thursday 2 July 11am £6, £7 or £15 inc. brunch or 2 course lunch – Director George Cukor Running time 112mins Starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey – With a cast of unparalleled greatness this classic romantic comedy focuses on the life of Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), a Philadelphia socialite who has split from her husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), due both to his drinking and to her overly demanding nature. As Tracy prepares to wed the wealthy George Kittredge (John Howard), she crosses paths with both Dexter and prying reporter Macaulay Connor (James Stewart). Unclear about her feelings for all three men, Tracy must decide whom she truly loves.

A Royal Night Out

Wednesday 15 July 7.30pm & Thursday 30 July 11am* £6, £7

*Film plus brunch or 2 course lunch for £15 (30 July only) – Director Julian Jarrold 2015 Running time tbc Starring Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, Sarah Gadon – The film is about one perfect, glorious evening in the lives of two real-life princesses. They are Elizabeth and Margaret Windsor at and the night is 8 May 1945, V-E Night. The

whole of London is on the streets to celebrate the official end of World War II in Europe. It is known the young princesses, aged 19 and 14, slipped out of the palace to join the communal euphoria and went dancing at the Ritz. They apparently returned to Buckingham Palace just after midnight. Directed by acclaimed UK director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane, Brideshead Revisited), A Royal Night Out is an affectionate ‘what-if’ story about the adventures Elizabeth and Margaret might have had on the joyous night that brought the whole of London together.

Premiere Film Night for The Casa

Friday 4 September 7.30pm £8, £10 – Join us for the premiere screening of two documentary films, all profits from the night go to The Casa.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Sunday 26 July 7.30pm £6, £7 – Director Stanley Kubrick 1968 Running time 161mins Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester – A mysterious and imposing black object found beneath the lunar surface provides a connection between the past

and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship’s computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behaviour, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

Viva La Casa

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The story of The Casa on Hope Street and how it emerged from the 1995-98 Dockers dispute. The film includes footage from the 17

April benefit concert at Liverpool Philharmonic presented by Brian Reade (see page 23).

Conversation in Cuba

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Jimmy McGovern meets award winning author, Leonardo Padura in Havana – two writers from port cities, both critical of their own societies and both using writing to explore social justice.

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Dedicating a seat is a perfect gift for music-lovers and concert-goers, and a lasting dedication if bought in memoriam.

In recognition of your support, we offer a number of benefits which aim to enhance your concertgoing experience including invitations to open rehearsals, pre-concert receptions, subscription to Encore magazine and access to a members room.

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Blue P4 The Solid Silver 60s Show P4 Shalamar P4 Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® P4 The Frank & Ella Show P5 Mike and the Mechanics SOLD OUT P5 Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham* P5 RLPO: Beloved Brahms P16 Seasick Steve SOLD OUT P5 Film: Fifty Shades of Grey P25 RLPO: Pictures from an Exhibition P16 Film: Some Like it Hot P25 RLPO: Pictures from an Exhibition P16 The Casa Solidarity Show SOLD OUT P12 The Interpretation of Dreams...* P16 The Hollies P5 David Arnold P6 LTD AVAILAB ILITY Talk: Tom Hutchison, Leanne Langley** P15 Film: The Second Best Exotic ... P25 RLPO: South of the Border P17 Bellowhead SOLD OUT P6 Musical Workshops for Children** P14 Music, Memories and Memorabilia** P15 Musical Workshops for Children** P14 Musical Workshops for Children** P14 Musical Workshops for Children** P14 Birkenhead & Formby Choral Societies... P12 RLPO: Boléro P17 RLPO: Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ P18 Classic Intro P18 RLPO: Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ P18

Calexico Dylan Moran: Off The Hook Beth Hart The Full English* Al Stewart RLPO: Tchaikovsky Birthday Salute Chris de Burgh & Band LTD AVAILABILITY Laughterhouse Live RLPO: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony Reginald D Hunter An Evening with Lulu RLPO: Virtuoso Brahms Film: Suite Française RLPO: Virtuoso Brahms Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Tom Paxton with Robin Bullock John Barrowman Film: Birdman Classic Intro RLPO: Sibelius’ Symphonies League of Welldoers Don McLean Film: Shaun the Sheep Film: A Little Chaos

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Paul Lewis, piano* Bryan Ferry SOLD OUT RLPO: Petrenko’s Elgar Magic of Motown The Reach Out Tour

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Stewart Lee GIANT3 SAND* Stewart Lee Holly Johnson Heritage Blues Orchestra Prom Praise with All Souls Orchestra Unlimited Voices Film: A Little Chaos RLPO: The Dream of Gerontius Film: Cinderella Film: Woman in Gold Elvis Costello Suzanne Vega RLPO: A Little Night Music RLPO: A Little Night Music The Overtones LTD AVAILABILITY RLPO: Disney in Concert The Moody Blues SOLD OUT Fotheringay* EXTRA DA TE Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story SOLD Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story OUT Superconcert! Mavis Staples Film: Far from the Madding Crowd

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Film: The Philadelphia Story RLPO: White Nights Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choirs ... Crosby Symphony Orchestra Opera North’s: The Flying Dutchman RLPO: The John Lennon Song Book RLPO: The John Lennon Song Book Rufus Wainwright Film: A Royal Night Out RLPO: Stars and Stripes RLPO: Last Night of the Summer Pops Rosanne Cash Film: Home Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues ... Film: A Royal Night Out

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The Spooky Men’s Chorale Premiere Film Night for The Casa Boycott & Aggers: The Second Innings! Alan Carr - Yap, Yap, Yap! Alan Carr - Yap, Yap, Yap! Victory in Europe - A Gala Concert ...

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