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Death in Venice (2)
Death in Venice (2) From Welsh National Opera, Thursday 7th March 2024 at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Reviewed by David Truslove. The adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten and Myfanwy Piper is one of … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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