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Go East, Young Woman, LESLIE JONES

Posted on June 26, 2014 by leslie

Go East, Young Woman LESLIE JONES discovers that women are equal to men Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Chatto & Windus, London, 270 pp, £18.99 In Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Tosca by Numbers LESLIE JONES

Posted on May 21, 2014 by leslie

    ENDNOTES – Tosca by Numbers Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Royal Opera House, 13th May 2014, production by Jonathan Kent: the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Oleg Caetani, with Oksana Dyka as Floria Tosca, Roberto Alagna … Continue reading →

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A Northern Light for Europe’s darkest hour STODDARD MARTIN

Posted on May 1, 2014 by leslie

  A Northern Light for Europe’s Darkest Hour STODDARD MARTIN enjoys a new biography of one of the most admirable – if enigmatic – figures of World War Two THE HERO OF BUDAPEST: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg … Continue reading →

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Prophet of Gloom

Posted on April 24, 2014 by leslie

Prophet of Gloom Zibaldone: the Notebooks of Leopardi, translated from the Italian, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin Books, London etc, 2013, hb, 2,052 pp O nature, tell me, nature Why do you never keep Your early promises? … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Were you not entertained?

Posted on March 24, 2014 by leslie

ENDNOTES – Were you not entertained? The Royal Albert Hall, March 16, 2014, Sir Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius, based on the poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton, Diana Moore … Continue reading →

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Father to the Man

Posted on March 2, 2014 by leslie

Father to the Man The Confusions of Young Master Törless by Robert Musil, translated by Christopher Moncrieff, Alma Classics, 2014, 250pp, pb, £6.39 STODDARD MARTIN reviews a new translation of Robert Musil’s Bildungsroman In this year of the centenary of the … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES – Machinations in Mantua

Posted on February 19, 2014 by leslie

ENDNOTES – Machinations in Mantua Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi, ENO, 15th February 2014, evening performance: directed by Christopher Alden, orchestra conducted by Graeme Jenkins Leslie Jones imbibes an intoxicating concoction at English National Opera Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave … Continue reading →

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Germany, in the eye of the beholder

Posted on February 4, 2014 by leslie

Germany, in the eye of the beholder Christopher Webster van Tonder, Erich Retzlaff volksfotograf, with contributions by Rolf Sachsse & Wolfgang Brückle, School of Art Press, 2013 Erich Retzlaff Volksfotograf, an exhibition of photographs from the School of Art Collection, … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES

Posted on January 18, 2014 by leslie

ENDNOTES Manon, Jules Massenet; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 14 January 2014 As Christopher Anthony Meade has aptly but inelegantly observed, in opera we get the most beautiful music “allied with the greatest drivel ever to escape from the twisted mind of … Continue reading →

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Fascist Italy speaks

Posted on January 11, 2014 by leslie

Fascist Italy Speaks Fascist Voices: an Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy, Christopher Duggan, Vintage, London, 2013, 501pp, pb, £10.99 Leslie Jones listens to some “ordinary” Italians It is possible to identify two distinct but not necessarily incompatible perspectives on Italian … Continue reading →

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