Updated 8:05am 22 May 2013

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Genius music of ‘blood and wit’

It has the yearning and nostalgia of Elgar’s Cello Concerto – to which it is distantly related – with added flesh, blood and cynical wit.Read

An engineer in the art world

MALCOLM Barton might well have become a professional artist had it not been for the fact that his secondary school stopped teaching art.Read

Music with Gallic charm

MAKE the French connection with Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra tomorrow.Read

Power packed Spanish film shows in Halifax

IT IS a multi-award winning film and one all-too rarely seen in this area.Read

Singing is such a stress buster

IF YOU have a stressful, high powered job then there’s no better way of relaxing than to join a choir.Read

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads staged in Huddersfield

WHEN Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series was first screened by the BBC in the Eighties, jaws could be heard dropping across the country.Read

Former miner’s passion for art exhibited in Batley show

AS a teenager, Ian Leadbeater had his heart set on a place at art school.Read

Huddersfield singers back after snow problems

HUDDERSFIELD Singers are back in concert this weekend – with a definite spring in their step!Read

Play spreads the word to dispel fear of Islam

A PLAY set in ancient Mecca and Medina and about to tour West Yorkshire aims to tackle Islamophobia through educating while entertaining.Read

Gledholt male voice choir off to Cornwall contest

THIS is usually the time of year when Gledholt Male Voice Choir has its eyes firmly on its gala concert and a festival that has spilled music out into the streets of Huddersfield in recent years.Read

Violinist’s musical pilgrimage arrives in New Mill

IF you’ve seen the James Bond film, Skyfall, you will have heard internationally acclaimed violinist Thomas Bowes play.Read

Mimika magic for children in Huddersfield

THEATRE in a tent? What better way of captivating small children than by creating a special world just for them.Read

Stunning show by Huddersfield Light Opera

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibition shows where there's brass there's art - take a look here & have your say

GIANT sculptures were installed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for a UK first.Read

Stunning performance by Slaithwaite Philharmonic

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Opera North’s orchestra plays English classics in Huddersfield

DOUGLAS Boyd says he waited 21 years to become a conductor. And he’s glad he did.Read

Fifty years of Gilbert and Sullivan in Meltham

THERE’S cause for celebration in Meltham next week and rightly so.Read

Solution to Huddersfield’s painter’s art mystery

ARTIST David Morrell posed a painterly puzzle for readers recently with a watercolour of a local scene.Read

They do like to be beside the seaside ... at the Harrison Lord in Brighouse

ARTISTS have always enjoyed capturing images of Britain’s coastline – from quaint fishing villages and craggy sea cliffs to un-tamed sand dunes and stormy seascapes.Read

Cool as a cucumber

AFTER 40 years in the entertainment business, Phil Cool is ready to chill out.Read