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Endnotes, March 2024

Endnotes, March 2024 In this edition: George Lloyd’s Arctic symphony, plus Nicola LeFanu’s path across the dunes, reviewed by Stuart Millson Recently issued by Lyrita is a definitive collection of symphonic music by one of our country’s many overlooked composers, … Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor, 7 February 2024 According to a Mr Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (the Daily Mail, December 30, 2023), western liberal capitalist countries are best because they “produce the most danceable pop songs,” the “biggest blockbuster movies,” … Continue reading

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Tough Crowd

Tough Crowd Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy, Graham Linehan, Eye Books, hb, 288 pp, £19.99, reviewed by Edward Dutton In the summer of 2000, queuing up outside the Almeida Theatre in London to attend … Continue reading

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Endnotes, February 2024

Endnotes, February 2024 Wagner from Denmark, reviewed by Stuart Millson Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner is a music-drama comprising three Acts and forms the second part of the composer’s epoch-making operatic achievement, Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring of … Continue reading

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Defiance

  Defiance Resisters; How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany, Wolf Gruner, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2023, h.b., 212 pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones In a letter to Arnold Zweig, dated December 15, 1935, the German … Continue reading

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Labyrinthine Linguistics

 Labyrinthine Linguistics Stanley E. Porter, The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text. Baker Academic. 2023. Pp.i-xxi, 1-969. $70.00, reviewed by Darrell Sutton This important book is the result of close reading and scrupulous study. The approach is linguistic, … Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor

  Letter to the Editor, 7th January 2024 I entered University College Hospital in the Euston Road for the second time last year after several heart attacks. Later I also had spells in the Royal Free Hospital in  Hampstead and Barts … Continue reading

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Endnotes, January 2024

Endnotes, January 2024 In this edition: music from Iceland; vintage Bruckner from the Berlin Philharmonic, reviewed by Stuart Millson Orchestral music for the stage is the theme of a recent disc from Chandos, except that the composers concerned are ~ … Continue reading

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The Missing Link

         Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge, in A Clockwork Orange, credit Wikipedia The Missing Link Bill Hartley hits Stockton Recent remarks by the Home Secretary, wherever they were directed, shone an unaccustomed spotlight on Stockton. [Editorial note; James Cleverly allegedly … Continue reading

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The Darkened Light of Faith

The Darkened Light of Faith; Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought, Melvin L. Rogers, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2023, 380 pp, hb, reviewed by Leslie Jones The European is to the other races of mankind … Continue reading

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