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...And then there’s David Lynch’s Twin Peaks universe, in which otherworldly evil expresses itself via a father’s lust for his daughter....
...Germany’s Baltic coast is also where the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich painted, and where the silent horror classic Nosferatu was shot....
...And although Isserlis, at 62, remains one of the most accomplished musicians of his generation, known especially for his work with contemporary composers — David Matthews, György Kurtág and Thomas Adès among...
...Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Helen Grime and Nico Muhly are in the mix, each contributing a mini-opera, adding up to about 45 minutes for the set of eight....
...Thanks to their huge record collection, he spent his childhood in Iceland growing to love music from Gibbons and Byrd to Thomas Adès and John Adams....
...An American guy that knows about Fela and knows about [King] Sunny Adé? This dude is crazy, but good crazy.”...
...Ironically, Buñuel’s film had no music at all, but what Adès has done is much more than provide a soundtrack....
...Can this petite designer-clad David take on the Random House Goliath and win?...
...Assured newcomers included Alice Coote, Rod Gilfry, David Portillo, Christian Van Horn and an underpowered Joseph Kaiser, Will this Exterminating Angel survive as a repertory staple? Who knows?...
...There are operas on The Fly by Howard Shore, David Lynch’s Lost Highway, turned into an opera by Olga Neuwirth, and two on Lars von Trier films, Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli and Selma Jezkova (after...
...Professor Dawn AdesProfessor David AdgerProfessor John F AllenProfessor Robert AndersonDr Toby AndrewProfessor Maria Rosa AntognazzaWilliam AstleDr Rhian AtkinProfessor Ronald Barnett Professor Dorothy...
...He’s much more the Larry David of music. [He thinks this] because I’m always gloomy, looking on the dark side. But if he gets into an argument, he cannot let it go, just like Larry David....
...This may be particularly so if the forecast of David Cui, BofA’s head of China equity strategy, proves correct....
...With rising ardour the actor David Garrick declaimed his specially composed ode to Shakespeare’s memory, while Thomas Arne, composer of “Rule, Britannia!”...
...“Old is new again,” points out David Garfield, a managing director at AlixPartners....
...Rachel Spence OPERA Thomas Adès It is 13 years since Thomas Adès’s last opera....
...(Financial Times) China and Japan are heading for a collision (Financial Times Rachman) China: Make plenum-ade (Financial Times Lex) Chinese billions and the search for safety (Bloomberg) Sugar subsidies...
...My friend Thomas Adès, the composer, says “I don’t work hard all year and travel to eat beans at home.” He’s got a point....
...David Butcher, chief executive of the Britten Sinfonia, sees the idea as liberating. “Bringing together new and old is one of the ways in which we free ourselves from tradition....
...Rosanna Ter-Berg and Leo Nicholson made a first-rate flute and piano duo, who shone in everything they touched, from sultry Jolivet to neo-romantic David Matthews....
...David Dawson’s Day4 proved more coherent: this creation for seven soloists is set in a perpetual dusk, with warm light only occasionally piercing through the grey....
...Thomas Adès: Full of Noises Conversations with Tom Service, Faber, RRP£16.99 Adès, the most talented British composer since Britten, doesn’t usually give interviews, but here his opinions tumble out....
...Last week, along with Ocean, a painter, and 20th-century art historian Dawn Ades, I judged the Wollaston Award for “the most distinguished work” in the exhibition....
...King Sunny Ade Baba Mo Tunde (IndigeDisc) Thirty years ago, Juju was nearly the new reggae, and King Sunny Ade a third world superstar to succeed Bob Marley....
...Thomas Adès’s duo for cello and piano features prominently in Isserlis’s tour programmes, and he talks hopefully of an Adès concerto....
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