... METRO REVIEW ► REVIEWS Chip and Carrie: a very tasty mix ►ROOTS CDS By Sarah McQuaid ►CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ Let's Leave This Town(Train Wreck Records) ►DAVID OLNEY The Wheel (Loudhouse Records) BEST known as the author of Wild Thing and Angel ...

... REVIEW A crucial board meeting next Thursday will consider the costcutting measures open to the company following a complete review ...

... Reviewed BOHENMT*™S’' DOUBL:E DEFEAT. ...

... REVIEW NSO Colman Poem, conductor; Nacerogor, piano. Walton, Wilson, Navel, Bondi& NCH The NSO - who made a good evening of it - embraced - Wilson's orchestral colours with care and commitment, the principals relishing numerous thoughtful solo lines. ...

... REVIEW JOHN FINEGAN The second part brings several tunes from the musical Cabaret, staged impressionistically, with Sleep as Master of Ceremonies and Janie Dee as Sally Bowles. The hit tune, Memory, from Cats, comes in the form of a love duet, in body ...

... REVIEW Explorer loses way NSO Conductor, Colman WITH works from 1977, 1976 and 1997, the NSO's second Explorer concert came closer to the series' contemporary theme than last month's absurdly pre-War programme. Apart from this there was little to commend ...

... REVIEWS Batons and bows Cara O'Sullivan, RTE Philharmonic Choir, NSOI, Takuo Yuasa NCH APANESE conduc- U tor Takuo Yuasa continues to prove a pair of safe hands. In Friday's concert, as in the past, the Ulster Orchestra's Principal Guest conductor inspired ...

... REVIEWS Missing the spark THE RIVALS Abbey HE Rivals is cred-1 iced as the play that launched Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sparkling career. But if last night's production had been its world premiere, it might Lust have buried him. For Sheridan's heros ...

... Review A Joly good show Gerald Barry Festival NCH; National TWO Irish premieres and the complete choral works have featured in the Lyric FM Gerald Barry Festival which began on Wednesday and continued last night. Wednesday's orchestral concert opened ...

... REVIEW Say hello, Beuys MIMI NM OSEPH Beuys, who died in 1986, was a legendary artist. Originally a Luftwaffe pilot in World War 11, he went on to become a modem day shaman; a Che Guevara-type pin-up lot radical students. In his trademark Homburg, Bevy* ...

... REVIEW Haydn takes a hiding NATIONAL Alexander Anlssintov, Conductor John O'Conor, piano HAYDN'S Sinfonla Concertante for vio- lin, cello, oboe and bassoon invites fleet playing and transparent orchestral texture. Alexander Anissimov, however, preferred ...

... REVIEWS Pass the Prozac, PJ P 4 HARVEY The Olympia POLLY Jean Harvey is a pale ravenhaired slender thing, with a powerfully moving voice and she was in captivating form at last night's concert. She's well capable of keeping an audience in thrall and her ...