Author Archives: leslie

Ordeal by Fire

Posted on December 8, 2016 by leslie

Ordeal by Fire  Il Trovatore, music by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Richard Farnes, Director David Bösch, Royal Opera House, 4th December 2016, first revival of David Bösch’s 2015/2016 production, reviewed by Leslie Jones In our review of the 2015/16 production … Continue reading →

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Government is the Cause of “Brexit-Trump Syndrome”

Posted on December 6, 2016 by leslie

 Government is the Cause of “Brexit-Trump Syndrome” Stephen Michael MacLean delivers some home truths The Powers that be never fail to demonstrate why they have earned the enmity of the average citizen. Bound up in a cocoon of self-satisfaction and self-denial, … Continue reading →

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Hotel Tresanton

Posted on December 4, 2016 by leslie

Hotel Tresanton, St Mawes, Cornwall Hotel Tresanton exudes an air of cosy solitude and secluded intimacy. It is incredibly well located with wonderful St Mawes Castle just at the top of the hotel (accessed via 137 steps), and a little … Continue reading →

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Polish Canadians, Searching for a Voice (Part 7)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by leslie

Polish Canadians, Searching for a Voice (Part 7)  Sociologist Mark Wegierski continues his analysis Can an authentic, Polish-Canadian identity endure given the decline of the Polish language in Canada? In the statistics of the Canada Census over the last few … Continue reading →

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Get Acquainted with Augustine

Posted on November 28, 2016 by leslie

Get Acquainted with Augustine  Darrell Sutton considers a new edition of the Confessions Ed. Carolyn J. B. Hammond. Augustine Confessions Vol I: Books 1-8, pp.413; Vol. II: Books 9-13, pp.446. Loeb Classical Library, LCL 26-27, (Cambridge: Harvard, 2014-2016). John Chrysostom … Continue reading →

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Abducted by Love

Posted on November 28, 2016 by leslie

Abducted by Love MANON LESCAUT, opera in 4 acts, musical score composed by Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, The Royal Opera House, 22 November 2016. First revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2014 production. Reviewed by Leslie Jones Manon Lescaut, … Continue reading →

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Poems by Chad Norman

Posted on November 26, 2016 by leslie

Poems by Chad Norman To The Readers: The following poems are all memories. Mary is on the beach/shoreline where her Percy was cremated. She never actually visited the site. Each poem opens with her in a different pose. Along with … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, November 2016

Posted on November 20, 2016 by leslie

ENDNOTES, November 2016 In this edition: music of Remembrance by Ronald Corp * ‘Dice Mass’ from the Tallis Scholars * Ginastera from Chandos * Has Radio 3 gone Gaga? The composer and conductor Ronald Corp has commemorated the season of … Continue reading →

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Driftwood Hotel

Posted on November 13, 2016 by leslie

Driftwood Hotel Em Marshall-Luck is smitten by a Cornish Hotel Driftwood Hotel, Rosevine, Portscatho, Cornwall, TR2 5EW A hotel that could persuade my city-girl little sister to leave the lights of London for a quiet area in the south Cornish … Continue reading →

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Transgressive Technologies

Posted on November 5, 2016 by leslie

Transgressive Technologies Mark Wegierski examines the key issues There are a number of highly transgressive technologies on the horizon of development, which may prove to be the most fundamental challenges ever to the notion of a more stable human nature, … Continue reading →

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