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ENDNOTES: May 2019
Endnotes: May 2019 From Meadow to Mayfair – Stuart Millson pays tribute to the English light music tradition The great tone-poems of English music need little introduction: Bax’s epic evocation of Cornish myth and landscape, Tintagel, and Holst’s mysterious Dorset … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Coates, Haydn Wood, Ronald Binge, Sir Adrian Boult, Vernon Handley
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Kirstjen Nielsen, Leaving Neverland
Kirstjen Nielsen, Leaving Neverland by Ilana Mercer The New York Times reports that “More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February” this year. March saw 100,000 merry migrants waltz into the U.S., undisturbed. Caravans are getting larger, not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ilana Mercer, John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen, Kris Kobach
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In the Year of Three Kings
In the Year of Three Kings The King Who Had to Go, Adrian Phillips, Biteback Publishing, 2016, isbn 978-1-78590-347-2, reviewed by Monty Skew Recently revealed letters, hitherto kept secret, have dispelled any lasting illusions about Edward VIII’s short and inglorious … Continue reading
Befuddled Bernie Sanders
Befuddled Bernie Sanders by Ilana Mercer Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, thinks that “everyone should have the right to vote—even the Boston Marathon bomber … even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say, ‘Well, … Continue reading
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea Review of Billy Budd, opera in two acts, music by Benjamin Britten, libretto by E M Forster and Eric Crozier, conducted by Ivor Bolton, directed by Deborah Warner, Royal Opera, 23rd April 2019, reviewed … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd, Deborah Warner
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The Moral of the Mueller Inquisition
The Moral of the Mueller Inquisition by Ilana Mercer One among many, former CIA head honcho John Brennan had famously asserted that President Trump was “treasonous” and “in the pocket of Putin.” It was “beyond a shadow of a doubt … Continue reading
ENDNOTES, April 2019
ENDNOTES, April 2019 by Stuart Millson In this edition: musical meditations on death and national decline From Chandos records, come two less-frequently-performed masterpieces by the doyen of English music, Sir Edward Elgar: The Music Makers (written in 1912) and The Spirit … Continue reading
Fake Intel runs through it
Fake Intel runs through it by Ilana Mercer No, the moral of the Mueller inquisition is not that the Left is incorrigibly corrupt and morally and intellectually bankrupt, although this is certainly true. And, no. It’s not that the Republicans are … Continue reading
Hell has no Limits
Hell has no Limits Faust, opera in five acts, music by Charles-François Gounod, libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, conducted by Dan Ettinger, director David McVicar, 5th revival of the 2004 production, Royal Opera, Thursday 11th April 2019, reviewed … Continue reading
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Tagged Erwin Schrott, Faust, Gounod, Stéphane Dégoût
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The Science of Power
The Science of Power Bill Hartley defends Fracking April 10th 2019 dawned with a light covering of frost over North Yorkshire. Despite this, the local BBC news announced there would be an open air tea party in the village of Kirby … Continue reading →
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