Requiem of remembrance

A feastful of classical festival offerings

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Richard Galliano; Scordatura Women’s Collective; Belsize Baroque; Leon Greening

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Nick Alexander; 808 State; John Cooper Clarke; Nitin Sawhney

Slick Oils – Mall Galleries

What have the Jews ever done for comedy?

Pastaio – where the pasta comes fasta!

Dan Carrier’s movies news: Ella Fitzgerald; The Price Of Everything; The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The beastly boys: JK Rowling misses a trick

Review: Drowned or Saved?, at Tristan Bates Theatre

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Jazz pianist Tim Penn; Verdi Requiem at Hampstead Parish Church; Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra at St Cyprian’s

Review: Don Quixote, at Garrick Theatre

Mulled wine, mince pies and sonatas by candlelight – all part of this year’s Highgate International Chamber Music Festival

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: EFG London Jazz Festival; Riz MC; Antonio Sánchez

Hampstead Garden Opera brings a delightfully confused Secret Marriage to Jackson’s Lane Theatre

The A to Zzzzz of sleeper trains

Art and soul: the people’s painters

Inter-war crisis?

Artists in harmony for this year’s Hampstead Arts Festival