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A monthly selection of forthcoming events recommended by The Spectator's regular critics

MUSIC

The 1988 Celebration of British Music continues on 10 April in the Barbican Hall with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and John McCabe as the soloist in his own 3rd Piano Concerto. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams's most atmospheric Sinfonia Antartica.

The 85th birthday of Sir Lennox Berkeley will be celebrated by the Chelsea Opera Group on 5 April in the Queen Elizabeth Hall; The work to be featured is Sir Lennox's opera Nelson, which was widely acclaimed at its first performance at Sadler's Wells in 1954.

On Easter Day the Festival Hall will provide the setting for a performance of Mahler's `Resurrection' Symphony given by the BBC SO and Chorus with the London Philharmonic Choir under Sir John Pritchard. Peter Phillips

DANCE

Pavlova Festival, Ivy House, North End Road, London NW11, 13-17 April (202 1903). Exhibitions, lectures, discussions, master- classes and films in celebration of Pavlova's life and career.

Northern Ballet Theatre, Sadlers Wells, 19-26 April (278 8916). The Manchester company's repertory includes a triple bill and performances of Coppelia.

Deirdre McMahon

THEATRE

The Jew of Malta, Barbican (628 8795). RSC transfer from Stratford of their black farce version of Marlowe's work.

Faust, Lyric (741 2311). Simon Callow stars in epic staging of both parts of Goethe's work.

Cymbeline, Pit (628 8795). Another RSC transfer from Stratford, a delicate studio production of this late work, Harriet Walter and Nicholas Farrell play the leads.

Danger/Memory, Hampstead (722 9301). British premiere of two short Arthur Miller plays on common theme of memory.

Christopher Edwards

EXHIBITIONS

Lost Magic Kingdoms & Six Paper Moons, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Highly popular show of ethnographic sculpture and artefacts selected by Eduardo Paolozzi.

English Cathedrals: Drawings by Dennis Creftield, Library Arts Centre, Wrexham, from 16 April. Our 26 mediaeval cathedrals drawn by former student of Bomberg.

Gouaches from Greenland 1930-50 by Gitz Johansen, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, from 17 April. Eskimo life from one of the world's less painted shores.

Warhol, by Mapplethorpe Mapplethorpe Portraits, National Portrait Gallery. One-man show of portrait photographs by widely talked-about American camera artist.

The Travelling Earl, Burghley I louse, Stamford, Lines. Paintings and other works collected by flamboyant 5th Earl of Exeter (1648-1700) while on Grand Tour.

Giles Auty

CRAFTS

Ikats. Woven Silks from Central Asia: The Rau Collection, Crafts Council Gallery, 13 April-26 June. Silk ikats from Bokhara and Samarkand. Sumptuous, shimmering effects.

Sally Greaves-Lord, Contemporary Applied Art, 43 Earlham Street, WC2, till 9 April. Painted, printed banners, fine abstract designs. •

Shape and Surface, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, till 24 April. Pots, jewellery and textiles. Mixed show with some bravura pieces. Tanya Harrod

CINEMA

Hollywood Shuffle (15). Fraught auditions and comic adventures of a black actor who is tired of playing slaves, pimps and muggers: `There's always', he is reminded, `work at the Post Office.'

Broadcast News (15). Media hysteria with William Hurt and Holly Hunter, respectively a vacuous presenter and an ambitious producer.

The Time to Live and the Time to Die, ICA. A delicate and original account of a Taiwanese childhood in the 1950s, which is set to become a classic of Chinese cinema.

Nutcracker (ti), ICA Children's Cinema, 1-17 April. An Easter holiday treat: LSO and Northwest Pacific Ballet, with set and costumes by Maurice Sendak.

Hilary Mantel

OPERA

Salome, Covent Garden, 8 April. Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts Peter Hall's production, originally seen in Los Angeles, with Maria Ewing in the title role and Robert Hale as John the Baptist.

Beatrice Cenci, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 16 April. Berthold Goldschmidt's opera was one of four to win an Arts Council Commission to celebrate the Festival of Britain in 1951 and is only now receiving its premiere, in concert form, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez.

The Knot Garden, Covent Garden, 29 April. Tippctt's opera, commissioned by the Royal Opera, receives its second production there: the director is Nicholas Hytner. Rodney Milnes

POP MUSIC

Robert Plant, touring. It's bizarre to think of the old Led Zeppelin frontman as anything other than terminally unfashionable, but 'progressive rock' is back and so is Plant, promoting an eclectic new album.

Thomas Dolby, Town & Country, 25 April. One-off date for the rather donnish producer/multi- instrumentalist, who is previewing his first album for many years, illness and backroom work having supervened. Marcus Berkmann

GARDENS

The very successful annual Cornish Garden Festival runs from 9 April to 31 May: 64 gardens will open on selected days for various charities. The Festival will suit anyone who wants to see the finest specimens of Magnolia campbellii, and a great many other beautiful, exotic woodland plants. You will need a copy of the Cornish Gardens Open Guide 1988; apply to Pamela Long, 7 Polventon Close, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4JS, price £1.25, including postage. Ursula Buchan

SALE-ROOMS

The Liberace Collection (Christie's, Los Angeles) starts its four-day run on the 8th. The Warhol things are sold at Sotheby's in New York for ten days beginning on the 23rd.

Nearer home, Phillips offer Turner's Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute, which could well set a world record for a watercolour on the 18th. It is head and shoulders above anything in either Liberace or Warhol. Bonham's have a good sale of classic cars at Syon Park on the