Foxtrot Begins Shooting “Lowry”

Foxtrot’s latest production will be a landmark film celebrating the life and work of the British painter L.S. LOWRY.

The film will be released in selected cinemas in the UK next year and explores the life and legacy of our most popular and much loved artist.

Contributors lined up to appear include SIR IAN McKELLEN and Lowry’s heir CAROL ANN LOWRY.

Produced & Directed by MARGY KINMONTH
Executive Producer MAUREEN MURRAY.

For more information about L.S. Lowry visit www.TheLowry.com
The new exhibition “The Loneliness Of Lowry” will transfer to The Crane Kalman Gallery this autumn.

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Contemporary Art Rocks Stately Home

The Lady - 27 July, 2010Fossilized pineapples, an iceberg, controversial leaking petrol drums, the world’s largest rocking horse and the world’s smallest cinema.

Even the fakes are on show.

Tatton Park in Manchester is running a great exhibition of site specific art.

Read Margy Kinmonth’s report in the Lady Magazine out on Tuesday.

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Simon Gray’s The Late Middle Classes

Helen McCrory and Peter Sullivan star with Eleanor Bron in Simon Gray’s autobiographical play The Late Middle Classes on at the Donmar Warehouse.

Here are some clips from the version that Margy filmed for Smoking Diaries adapted specially by Simon Gray, starring the original cast Harriet Walter and James Fleeet.

Click here to visit the Simon Gray website.

The Baron’s Birthday

The Lady Magazine - 22nd June, 2010Full report on Baron Jacob Rothschild’s Art Party at Waddesdon Manor, the magical and wildly ornate fairy tale château in Buckinghamshire and the unveiling of a sculpture by one of America’s most celebrated living artists – Jeff Koons’ Cracked Egg (Blue).

Kinmonth’s account is in the Lady Magazine next Tuesday…

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Richard Berkeley promotes music in education

RICHARD BERKELEY, the subject of MAUREEN MURRAY‘s road movie documentary “MAGNIFICAT”, is a passionate and active advocate of music in education.

As President of the Fundacja Nowa Orkiestra Kameralna, he recently addressed TEDxWarsaw’s inaugural conference. One million people watched him live on line. Click here to watch again on YouTube.

Shot entirely on location in Poland, “MAGNIFICAT” follows Berkeley and the Nowa Orkiestra conducted by Pawel Kos-Nowicki in the run up to a concert featuring Bach’s Magnificat starring world famous soprano DAME EMMA KIRKBY.

To see clips from “Magnificat” click here and here or watch below.

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