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2 unusual facts about barbican


BBC South West

The studios were due to close in late 2011, with BBC South West moving to a new purpose-built broadcasting centre on the banks of Sutton Harbour, opposite the Barbican in Plymouth city centre.

Brett Fancy

He auditioned for and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Barbican, City of London where he was subsequently awarded the school's Gold Medal for acting.


Alain Boublil

On 8 October 1985, an English-language production of Les Misérables produced by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Trevor Nunn premiered in London at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Barbican Theatre.

Antony Dunn

In 2006 he contributed lyrics to Mark Ravenhill's pantomime, Dick Whittington and His Cat (Barbican, London).

Box the Pony

It has played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican in London.

By Jupiter

Ian Marshall Fisher's Discovering Lost Musicals Charitable Trust presented a concert staging at Barbican Cinema 1 in May 1992, with Louise Gold as Hippolyta and Jon Glover as Sapiens.

David Temple

He also appears regularly with Hertfordshire Chorus at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, The Sage Gateshead and St Albans Cathedral.

Helen McCarthy

In September 2008 she curated and presented a week-long film season and exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the birth of Osamu Tezuka, also at the Barbican.

Jamal Jumá

The choral work was commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Orchestra on 8 March 2007 at the Barbican Hall, London, with John Storgards as conductor.

Kristi Stassinopoulou

In May 2001 she participated in the Greece in Britain series of concerts at the Barbican Theatre of London; the late Charlie Gillett, who was in the audience, hosted Stassinopoulou and Kalyviotis live in his Saturday BBC 3 radio show, The Sound of the World.

Linde Nijland

July 2009 Linde was asked by Joe Boyd (former producer of, among others, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd) to sing the songs "Fotheringay" and "Si tu dois partir" as part of an 'All Star' Fairport Convention reunion concert in the Barbican Hall in London with original Fairport members Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Judy Dyble, Iain Mathews, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks and Dave Pegg.

Lois V Vierk

# River Beneath the River – 14:13 - Eva Greusser (violin), Patricia Davis (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Bruce Wang (cello); commissioned by the Barbican Centre for Kronos Quartet

Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress has also extensively conducted orchestras internationally, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1980, the Vienna State Opera in 1981, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome in 1988, the Brno Orkester of the Czech Republic in 1997, the FOK Orkester at the Prague Spring Festival in 1988, the Shanghai Radio and Television Orchestra in 1996-97, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1998, and the Barbican Centre Orchestra in London in 1999.

Oggi Tomic

Tough Guy 453 was a documentary Oggi was involved on as a cinematographer which won best factual film at several events such as Ffresh,1 and was one of three films nominated by the Royal Television Society at their awards ceremony at The Barbican Centre in London.

Phil Kline

Kline's compositions have been performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Miller Theatre, the Whitney Museum, MASS MoCA, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and London's Barbican Centre.

Pig Business

The film in altered form then made its UK debut at the Barbican on 20 May 2009, with Zac Goldsmith on hand to lend support.

Royal Road, Kraków

The Royal Road crosses Matejko Square (pl. Matejki), passes the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) on the right-hand side and crosses Basztowa Street – to the medieval barbican (Barbakan).

The Bishops

The band formed in 2002 when twins Mike and Pete Bishop met drummer Chris Mcconville while working at the 'The Kings Head', a pub close to the local YMCA in Barbican where they were living at the time.

The White Devil

The Royal Shakespeare Company performed The White Devil in 1996 at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (later transferred to London to The Pit at The Barbican), directed by Gale Edwards with Richard McCabe as Flamineo, Philip Quast as Ludovico, Ray Fearon as Brachiano, Jane Gurnett as Vittoria, Stephen Boxer as Francisco and Philip Voss.

What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?

It was performed live by the band at the film's premiere at the Barbican.


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