{"title": "Music Appreciation: The Roaring Twenties", "start": "2026-11-02T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£170 / £17 each lecture", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/book/?bookevent=5301", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/20th-century", "music/classical"], "description": "A music appreciation lecture titled \"Music Appreciation: The Roaring Twenties\", held in the Hearn Recital Room. It is part of a series on \"The Roaring Twenties: A New Music for a New Age\", exploring how 1920s composers such as Stravinsky, Les Six, Gershwin and Bartók created a new, lighter sound shaped by jazz and cabaret. Details and booking are via Richard Perks. 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Novelist Jonathan Coe talks with journalist and musician Philippe Auclair about his new book 'Lessons in Harmony', which imagines the friendship between composer Maurice Ravel and his British pupil Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1907 Paris. The Pomegranate Piano Trio performs extracts from works by both composers. Copies of the book are available to buy on the night thanks to partner bookshop Librairie La Page.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonathan-coe-on-ravel-and-vaughan-williams-and-the-music-of-74187/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/lessons-in-harmony-with-jonathan-coe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7437c4d4bd318f9d83a3868666ac3bc7bc93ba09336fd0df0b377e02c2396716-2000.webp"}, {"title": "RCM Brass: West Side Story", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "£6.50 (incl ticket fee)", "price_from": "6.50", "price_to": "6.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/brass"], "description": "RCM Brass: West Side Story is a concert by the RCM Brass Ensemble, directed by Amos Miller, in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall. 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The evening aptly opens with a fanfare and ends with works by Leonard Bernstein, one of the most famous and influential composers of his nation, whose music traverses classical, popular and jazz traditions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rcm-brass-west-side-story-38296/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3761950", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94103330bb28bf21c038c978d470e504af347cc6e5bd25fd17c433fdb5d9727f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Explorers Course: ages 10–13", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "£75; free tickets available subject to meeting eligibility criteria", "price_from": "75.00", "price_to": "75.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music"], "description": "A two-day course for 10–13 year olds focused on creative musicmaking, storytelling, instrumental playing and singing. 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