GRETA SCACCHI Enjoys a little mid-life angst - Mayfair Times
GRETA SCACCHI Enjoys a little mid-life angst - Mayfair Times
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14<br />
what’s on film what’s on music<br />
THURSDAY 4<br />
Diva Thursday Live:<br />
Husbands and Wives<br />
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook<br />
Street, W1. 6.30pm, tickets £9,<br />
£7.50 concessions.<br />
Recital on musical couples,<br />
including Johann Hasse and<br />
Faustina Bordini, Thomas Arne and<br />
Cecilia Young, and her sister<br />
Isabella and composer Lampe.<br />
With Sarah Moule (soprano) and<br />
Bridget Cunningham (harpsichord).<br />
Info: 020 7495 1685/ 020 7399<br />
1953 (booking)<br />
www.handelhouse.org<br />
MONDAY 8<br />
Ed Bentley Quintet<br />
Dover Street Restaurant and Jazz<br />
Bar, 8-10 Dover Street, W1.<br />
Approximate set times 9.45pm<br />
and 11pm, free before 10pm, £6<br />
after.<br />
Pianist, organist and vocalist Ed<br />
Bentley performs.<br />
Info: 020 7491 7509/020 7629<br />
9813<br />
www.doverst.co.uk<br />
TUESDAY 9<br />
The Best of the French<br />
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook<br />
Street, W1. 6.30pm, tickets £7.<br />
Ketil Haugsand performs works by<br />
Marchand, Forqueray and sons<br />
and Rameau.<br />
Info: 020 7495 1685/ 020 7399<br />
1953 (booking)<br />
www.handelhouse.org<br />
Yael Naim<br />
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly,<br />
FRIDAY 12<br />
Eraserhead: Restored (18)<br />
Institute of Contemporary Arts,<br />
The Mall, SW1. Runs September<br />
12-22, 24, 26, tickets £8, £7<br />
concessions, £6 ICA members.<br />
David Lynch has restored his<br />
1977 debut for re-release.<br />
Disturbing and surreal fantasy<br />
about Henry (Jack Nance), who<br />
finds himself the father of a<br />
deformed child and is drawn to a<br />
singing lady in a radiator.<br />
Info: 020 7930 0493,<br />
020 7930 3647 (box office)<br />
www.ica.org.uk<br />
W1. Doors 7pm, onstage 9pm,<br />
tickets £14 standing only.<br />
Yael and David Donatien follow<br />
the success of their single New<br />
Soul – which featured in the<br />
MacBook Air advert – and<br />
appearances at the iTunes Festival<br />
and Scala with a live show at the<br />
Pigalle Club.<br />
Info: 0800 988 5470<br />
(reservations)<br />
www.thepigalleclub.com<br />
WEDNESDAY 10<br />
BBC Young Musician of the<br />
Year: Jadran Duncumb<br />
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street,<br />
W1. 1pm, £8.<br />
Grand finalist guitarist Jadran<br />
Duncumb delights audiences.<br />
Info: 020 7258 8200, 020 7935<br />
2141 (booking)<br />
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk<br />
THURSDAY 11<br />
A Bach Showcase<br />
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook<br />
Street, W1. 6.30pm, tickets £9,<br />
£7.50 concessions.<br />
Harpsichordist Pawel Siwczak<br />
explores the styles of French and<br />
Italian playing and stylus<br />
phantasticus in JS Bach’s music.<br />
Info: 020 7495 1685/ 020 7399<br />
1953 (booking)<br />
www.handelhouse.org<br />
Dan Bowskill<br />
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly,<br />
W1. Doors 7pm, onstage 9pm,<br />
tickets £10 show only, £45 show<br />
and three-course meal.<br />
Soul and reggae.<br />
Heavy Metal in Baghdad<br />
Institute of Contemporary Arts,<br />
The Mall, SW1. Runs September<br />
12-24, 29-30, tickets £8, £7<br />
concessions, £6 ICA members.<br />
Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi<br />
follow Iraq’s only heavy metal<br />
band, Acrassicauda, in the <strong>mid</strong>dle<br />
of a bloody insurgency.<br />
Info: 020 7930 0493,<br />
020 7930 3647 (box office)<br />
www.ica.org.uk<br />
Boy in Striped Pyjamas<br />
Curzon <strong>Mayfair</strong>, 38 Curzon Street,<br />
W1, from September 12.<br />
Info: 0800 988 5470<br />
(reservations)<br />
www.thepigalleclub.com<br />
SATURDAY 13<br />
Musical Battles<br />
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook<br />
Street, W1. 3pm, free for ages 16<br />
and under with adult admission<br />
(£5). Suitable for ages 8-12. Let<br />
the museum know if you are<br />
bringing an instrument; some<br />
percussion instruments will be<br />
provided.<br />
Composer-in-residence John<br />
Habron and singer Kate Mapp<br />
coordinate youngsters creating a<br />
new piece with cymbals, drums,<br />
strings and voice.<br />
Info: 020 7495 1685/ 020 7399<br />
1953 (booking)<br />
www.handelhouse.org<br />
THURSDAY 18<br />
Cédric Tiberghien<br />
Drama about Bruno (Asa<br />
Butterfield), the son of a Nazi<br />
commandant, and his friend<br />
Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish<br />
boy in a concentration camp.<br />
Directed by Mark Herman and<br />
starring David Thewlis.<br />
Info: 020 7495 0501 (recorded<br />
info), 0871 7033 989 (box office)<br />
www.curzoncinemas.com<br />
MONDAY 15<br />
Then She Found Me<br />
Curzon <strong>Mayfair</strong>, 38 Curzon Street,<br />
W1, from September 19.<br />
Actress Helen Hunt makes her<br />
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore<br />
Street, W1. 7.30pm, tickets £25,<br />
£22, £18, £12.<br />
Works by Brahms and Bartók in a<br />
prelude to the Belcea Quartet’s<br />
Bartók Day on September 20.<br />
Tiberghien will be in conversation<br />
with Sandy Burnett at 6pm, tickets<br />
£3.<br />
Info: 020 7258 8200, 020 7935<br />
2141 (booking)<br />
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk<br />
FRIDAY 19<br />
Gordon Webber’s Road<br />
Runners<br />
Dover Street Restaurant and Jazz<br />
Bar, 8-10 Dover Street, W1.<br />
Approximate set times 10pm and<br />
<strong>mid</strong>night, diners only before<br />
10pm, £15 after.<br />
Soul and Motown big band.<br />
Info: 020 7491 7509/020 7629<br />
9813<br />
www.doverst.co.uk<br />
directorial debut with a story<br />
about a schoolteacher and her<br />
triple <strong>mid</strong><strong>life</strong> crisis.<br />
Info: 020 7495 0501 (recorded<br />
info), 0871 7033 989 (box office)<br />
www.curzoncinemas.com<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
La Ville est Tranquille, plus<br />
John Berger in discussion<br />
Curzon <strong>Mayfair</strong>, 38 Curzon Street,<br />
W1. 6.20pm, tickets £12, £9<br />
Curzon members.<br />
Urban drama set in Marseilles,<br />
directed by Robert Guédiguian.<br />
Writer and critic John Berger<br />
MONDAY 15<br />
Line of Passage (Linha de Passe)<br />
charity gala<br />
Curzon <strong>Mayfair</strong>, 38 Curzon Street, W1.<br />
Reception from 6pm, tickets £10, £8<br />
Curzon members.<br />
Gala event in aid of the Action for<br />
Brazil’s Children’s Trust. Director Walter<br />
Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) will be<br />
in conversation after the screening.<br />
Salles and Daniela Thomas direct this<br />
drama about four brothers trying to<br />
escape poverty and chaos in San Paulo.<br />
Info: 020 7495 0501 (recorded info),<br />
0871 7033 989 (box office)<br />
www.curzoncinemas.com<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
Lamentations<br />
Handel House Museum,<br />
25 Brook Street, W1. 6.30pm,<br />
tickets £9, £7.50 concessions.<br />
The Baroque Encounter Trio perform<br />
a recital exploring the theme of<br />
grief, with a programme of works by<br />
JC Bach and JS Bach, Purcell,<br />
Handel and Froberger. With Glenn<br />
Kesby (counter tenor, pictured),<br />
Lauren Brant (recorders) and Claire<br />
Williams (harpsichord).<br />
Info: 020 7495 1685/ 020 7399<br />
1953 (booking)<br />
www.handelhouse.org<br />
THURSDAY 25<br />
Ray Gelato<br />
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly,<br />
W1. Doors 7pm, onstage 9pm,<br />
tickets £20 show only, £60 show<br />
and three-course meal.<br />
Swing music from Ray Gelato.<br />
Info: 0800 988 5470<br />
(reservations)<br />
www.thepigalleclub.com<br />
SATURDAY 27<br />
Evening concert<br />
St James’s Church, 197<br />
Piccadilly, W1. 7.30pm, tickets<br />
£12, £10 concessions.<br />
Soprano Stefanie Kemble-Read,<br />
bass Nicholas Greenbury and<br />
pianist Mary Hill perform pieces<br />
by Britten, Debussy, Rodrigo and<br />
Mozart along with poems from<br />
Tennyson’s In Memoriam.<br />
Info: 020 7381 0441<br />
www.st-james-piccadilly.org<br />
sjp.concerts@virgin.net<br />
discusses the film.<br />
Info: 020 7495 0501 (recorded<br />
info), 0871 7033 989 (box office)<br />
www.curzoncinemas.com<br />
TCM Crime Scene 2008<br />
Institute of Contemporary Arts,<br />
The Mall, SW1. Runs until<br />
September 28.<br />
Film and literature festival about<br />
crime with previews from around<br />
the world, a Bertrand Tavernier<br />
retrospective, Q&As and a behindthe-scenes<br />
look at TV’s Spooks.<br />
Literature events based at<br />
Waterstones, Piccadilly.<br />
Info: 020 7930 0493, 020 7930<br />
3647 (box office)<br />
www.ica.org.uk<br />
www.tcmonline.co.uk/crimescene<br />
I’ve Loved You So Long<br />
Curzon <strong>Mayfair</strong>, 38 Curzon Street,<br />
W1, from September 26.<br />
Phillipe Claudel’s drama about<br />
Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas),<br />
who returns to her younger sister<br />
Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) after 15<br />
years.<br />
Info: 020 7495 0501 (recorded<br />
info), 0871 7033 989 (box office)<br />
www.curzoncinemas.com<br />
EVENTS Lucy Brown<br />
lucy@pubbiz.com
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