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What friends are for

Posted on June 11, 2023 by leslie

                    What friends are for, by Bill Hartley The Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, has been associated with the town of Darlington in County Durham since the 17thcentury. Even the local football club is nicknamed the Quakers. … Continue reading →

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Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park

Posted on June 7, 2023 by leslie

Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park, June 3rd 2023; opera in three acts with music composed by Giuseppe Verdi, Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave; a new production by Opera Holland Park, directed by Cecilia Stinton; the City … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, June 2023

Posted on June 2, 2023 by leslie

Endnotes, June 2023 In this edition, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, in a new recording on the Chronos label, reviewed by Stuart Millson J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – stands alongside Rachmaninov’s Second, or Mahler’s Symphonies Five to Seven, written some … Continue reading →

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Blowback

Posted on May 23, 2023 by leslie

Blowback Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue, The New British Politics, Penguin, 2023, Pb, 239 pp, U.K. £10.99, reviewed by Leslie Jones A major realignment is taking place in British politics, according to Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at the … Continue reading →

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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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