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STAYING IN
What the critics are watching and

listening to, from Waiting for the

Barbarians to the Proms

Our critics pick the top film, television, theatre, classical, dance, pop and visual art

this week

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Celebrating 100 years since its first concert, the full orchestra is performing in a warehouse,
where they can socially distance, in a concert that will be streamed without a live audience.
Simon Rattle, the CBSO’s former music director, takes over from the pregnant Mirga Grazinyte-
Tyla for a programme that includes Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto
No 1 and AR Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire Suite, featuring Roopa Panesar on sitar. Tonight at
7pm, on the CBSO’s Facebook and YouTube pages
Neil Fisher