This Week on the DCMG Websites


Here's a round up of all the new articles this week on The DreamCage and AlbieMedia websites...

Monday 2nd September

 On AlbieMedia

 "It's one I haven't seen, heard or even know much about but that's not surprising since, as the full scale opera is rarely performed."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 59: Benvenuto Cellini ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-59.html

Tuesday 3rd September

 On AlbieMedia

"Properly full on "just known by their numbers" classical music tonight, starting with a piano concerto from Beethoven."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 60: Vienna Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-60.html


Wednesday 4th September

On The DreamCage

The six authors shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/books-booker-prize-shortlist.html

On AlbieMedia

"What's a kora? I asked the same thing so I went looking"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 61: Vienna Philharmonic & Andrés Orozco-Estrada and 62: Canzionere Grecanico Salentino...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-61-62.html



Thursday 5th September

On The DreamCage

You had us at "eyebrows." There's a giant rabbit running loose in the wacky world of Madius Comics and they need our help! Susan Omand explains more about the Kickstarter for The Incredible Bun #2...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/comic-incredible-bun-2.html

"We all have a voice. Just be careful how you use it" says the film's tagline. Steve Taylor-Bryant carefully watched Hot Air, out now to own on Digital download...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-hot-air.html

On AlbieMedia

 "Virtuoso pianist Yuja Wang does indeed play Rachmaninov, at least for the first half."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov ...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-63.html

 "The record has been a popular one for a number of very varied artists (including Shirley Bassey!!!)"

For this week's #SotD79, Jimmy Hunter is giving us Breakfast in Bed...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/sotd79-sheila-hylton.html

"it was a bit of a no-brainer for me as it's probably one of my favourites of theirs"

Thirty years after release, Susan Omand looks back at the Aerosmith album Pump...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/turn-that-noise-down-aerosmith.html



Friday 6th September

On The DreamCage

"As a visual piece of art, Movements of a Nearby Mountain is as stunning as you’ll see but as a documentary it could have been more."

On this week at Open City Documentary Festival, Steve Taylor-Bryant watched the documentary Movements of a Nearby Mountain...


When will Hollywood learn that video games never translate well to movies? With a new Mortal Kombat movie in the works, with filming starting this month in Australia, the Was This Always Weird podcast guys cast their eyes over the 1995 original film adaptation.

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/podcast-was-this-always-weird-mortal.html


On AlbieMedia

"I saw tonight's funk-heavy prom list below and then went looking in the schedules to find the earlier evening "proper" prom. Nope."

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 64: The Breaks ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-64.html


Saturday 7th September

On The DreamCage

With IT Chapter 2 now in cinemas, Kraig Taylor-Bryant takes a step back in time to look at the young characters from the Losers Club in the first film, IT...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2019/09/film-it-2017.html

On AlbieMedia

"As if to make up for last night's "not classical" prom [oh, don't start - Ed] tonight's prom really couldn't get more classical if it tried"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 65: Mozart, Beethoven & R. Strauss ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-65.html

AlbieMedia's favourite folkie Gozer Goodspeed is Running with the Outliers as he announces his debut album...

 https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/news-gozer-goodspeed.html


 Sunday 8th September

On AlbieMedia

 "There are going to be eight choirs singing the names of mountains, deserts, rivers, forests and plains around the world"

Susan Omand has a quick look at the programme for Prom 66: John Luther Adams's In the Name of the Earth and Prom 67: Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius ...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2019/09/today-at-proms-prom-66-67.html



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