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Beating Retreat, including the emotive Naval Sunset ceremony, will take place on Horse Guards Parade, in front of the beautiful backdrop of St James's Park, on 11 & 12 July. It promises to be a spectacular evening of outstanding military music and pageantry, featuring the massed bands of His Majesty’s Royal Marines, the precision drill of the 40 strong Corps of Drums and a 100 strong Royal Marines Guard of Honour.
Event of the Week
The 2024 BBC Proms programme is bursting with choral works, with highlights including performances of Verdi’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem and Bach’s St John Passion, and a special three-concert Choral Day on 7 September reflecting a wide range of styles, culminating in a performance of Handel’s Messiah. Read more about this season’s programme with an introduction from David Pickard, Director BBC Proms, on page three of our July issue.
Music of the Week
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens at the National Portrait Gallery is the first major exhibition to place its focus on the women who married the infamous Tudor king. Sixteenth-century paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since re-opening, presenting a study of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII.
Exhibition of the Week
The iconic musical, Hello, Dolly!, comes to The London Palladium this summer. With an unforgettable score by the legendary Jerry Herman, Hello, Dolly! begins performances at the London Palladium on 6 July for a strictly limited 10-week season. Multi-Olivier and BAFTA Awardwinning Imelda Staunton plays meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi, as she travels to Yonkers, New York to find a match for the miserly, unmarried ‘half-a-millionaire’ Horace Vandergelder.