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Cold constitutional

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Derek Turner

Cold constitutional   On the ice-edge of the hill Gazing down grateful from verge of valley, Coming in across country, a splinter of winter –   My feet hold fields. And today, I saw the sun so wonderfully die, The … Continue reading →

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Home life of a predator – scenes from a Leopard’s den

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Derek Turner

Home life of a predator – scenes from a Leopard’s den DEREK TURNER reviews the latest addition to the ever-growing field of ‘Leopardology’ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – A Biography Through Images Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Alma Books, Richmond (Surrey), 2013, … Continue reading →

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War Requiem

Posted on November 17, 2013 by leslie

Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Royal Albert Hall, Sunday 10th November: Semyon Bychkov, conductor, Sabina Cvilak, soprano, Allan Clayton, tenor, Roderick Williams, baritone, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus, Crouch End Festival Chorus, The Choristers of Westminster Abbey Britten told … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Great Britten remembered

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Derek Turner

Great Britten remembered Benjamin Britten, A Life in the Twentieth Century Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, 660 pps, hb, £30 This year, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Benjamin Britten is being commemorated, and I doubt that there is … Continue reading →

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Man of Aran – Erse ethnofiction

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Derek Turner

Man of Aran – Erse ethnofiction Man of Aran (1934) The Aran Islands guard the mouth of Galway Bay, a NW to SE diagonal archipelago made up of three major islands – Inishmore, Inishmaan and Inisheer – plus a couple … Continue reading →

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La Bohême

Posted on November 1, 2013 by leslie

La Bohême Stoddard Martin visits Prague by proxy PRAGUE, CAPITAL of the TWENTIETH CENTURY: A Surrealist History, by Derek Sayer, Princeton University Press, 2013 There is a mystique about Prague which makes it for some the most alluring of European cities. … Continue reading →

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Left in the Lurch

Posted on October 25, 2013 by leslie

Left in the Lurch LESLIE JONES reviews a resume of Weimar political culture Weimar Thought: a Contested Legacy, eds. Peter E Gordon & John P McCormick, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2013 Provocative historian Jan T Gross points out … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Vaughan Williams and Arnold

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Derek Turner

Endnotes – Prokofiev, Complete Works for Violin; Szymanowski in the High Tatras; Malcolm Arnold and Vaughan Williams in classic recordings STUART MILLSON looks to Europe’s east Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891-1953) is, possibly, one of the most difficult composers to discuss. For … Continue reading →

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Monday night

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Derek Turner

Monday night   The roundest moon was resting on our road, Making of the lane a silver stream – A chilly channel running from some Sea To carry its Tranquillity to me.   I waded in those waters ‘til it … Continue reading →

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Is it time for a new teleology?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Derek Turner

Is it time for a new teleology? PATRICK KEENEY enjoys an ambitious assault on the materialist underpinnings of modern science   Mind and Cosmos:  Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False Thomas Nagel.  Oxford:  OUP, 2012, … Continue reading →

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