At Last, There's a Great Southbank Show ; It Went From Post-War Futurism to a Bleak Concrete Jungle, but Now London has a Cultural Quarter to Be Proud Of
Evening Standard - London › May 31, 2007
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IGREW up with the Southbank, and it's hard to quantify the pleasure I feel at seeing it finally grow up, too, into an integrated, thriving arts and entertainment quarter.
Most of my earliest cultural experiences were in SE1. There were the visits in my early teens to hear a talk by animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen or to watch Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 heart- palpitatingly, it was my first X-rated movie at the National Film Theatre with my father.See the full content of this document
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At Last, There's a Great Southbank Show ; It Went From Post-War Futurism to a Bleak Concrete Jungle, but Now London has a Cultural Quarter to Be Proud Of
I remember the sonorous power of Paul Scofield's Othello at the National Theatre in 1980, when I was 14, and the devastating emotional impact of Frances de la Tour's St Joan four years later. Childhood classical concerts at the Royal Festival Hall evoke dimmer memories, but my dad remembers seeing the greats of the jazz world there: Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald.
The Hayward was probably the first gallery I went to.Early on, I imbibed the notion that Waterloo was where you went for art ...See the full content of this document
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