Author Archives: leslie

Revelations

Posted on May 14, 2023 by leslie

Revelations Selma Gokcen and Kenneth Cooper, Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, Volume One – Suites I and III BWV 1007–1008, reviewed by Joseph Spooner Judging by the designations given to musical events, … Continue reading →

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Speke for England

Posted on May 11, 2023 by leslie

Speke for England River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard, Swift Books, 2023, pp349, reviewed by William Hartley                       Two Victorian explorers risking their lives and wrecking their health … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, May 2023

Posted on May 2, 2023 by leslie

Endnotes In this edition: Carl Nielsen, an inextinguishable force in music, reviewer Stuart Millson The surging Nordic seascapes of Denmark – winds from the North and Baltic Seas; the rustle of springtime in the rural realm of Funen; the Danish … Continue reading →

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The Categorical Imperative

Posted on April 17, 2023 by leslie

                           The Categorical Imperative, by Bill Hartley For many years our prison system has operated on the basis of incentives. A prisoner who behaves himself can expect to … Continue reading →

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The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity

Posted on April 12, 2023 by leslie

Benjamin P. Laird, The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: its Formation, Publication and Circulation. Hendrickson Academic (2022). Pp. i-xx, 1-371. $59.95. Reviewed by Darrell Sutton Revisions of doctoral dissertations are not necessarily a pleasure to read. In this case, however, … Continue reading →

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Special Review

Posted on April 11, 2023 by leslie

Special Review by Stuart Millson of Handel’s Messiah, at the Church of St. James the Great, East Malling, Kent The Bach B minor Mass, Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Messiah are probably the best-known choral works of the 18th century: towering … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, APRIL 2023

Posted on March 30, 2023 by leslie

Endnotes, April 2023 In this edition: review of the music of John Ireland; an interview with composer Nimrod Borenstein, both prepared by Stuart Millson    Throughout the flowering of the English musical renaissance (the period from about 1890 to the … Continue reading →

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Pauline Conversion

Posted on March 26, 2023 by leslie

Pauline Conversion  After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, National Gallery, 22nd March 2023, curated by MaryAnne Stevens; After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, Catalogue of the Exhibition, National Gallery Global, 2023, reviewed by Leslie Jones After Impressionism covers the supposedly pivotal period from … Continue reading →

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Atlas Woke

Posted on March 7, 2023 by leslie

Atlas Woke, by Bill Hartley Historical geography has been defined as ‘the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographical phenomena have changed over time’. There used to be a more succinct definition: ‘the study of past landscapes’ … Continue reading →

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Nymphomania – Rusalka, at Royal Opera

Posted on February 23, 2023 by leslie

Nymphomania – Rusalka, at Royal Opera Rusalka, lyric fairy tale in three acts, music by Antonin Dvorák, libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Semyon Bychkov, created and directed by Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee, … Continue reading →

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