Hints and tips:
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...The “Ode To Joy” has become a sequence of blues songs, strongly sung by Rachel Nicholls. As for the newly discovered Symphony in B Flat, that sounds nothing like Tippett at all....
...The main work is Britten’s Nocturne, an orchestral song cycle, sung by tenor Allan Clayton in lambent, youthful voice, but without disturbing the music’s darker shadows....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...But Shadows in the Night stands apart from similar efforts by Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart et al....
...Still, he too felt the pull of the siren song: I luxuriated in the polemics of Marc Faber and James Grant and Nassim Taleb, in our own country, Albert Edwards, et al....
...Malik has also sung a duet with Jouannest’s wife, the legendary Left Bank chanteuse Juliette Gréco. “I like to assert my French identity,” he says....
...… The revisionist tendency (Michael Gove, Sir Max Hastings et al) to suggest that the first world war was gloriously worth fighting is one that makes the blood rush to my head....
...The US role in the global corporate economy consists disproportionately of consultants, designers, personnel managers et al., who make a good living showing foreign leaders how to organise their businesses...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...Last weekend’s Olympic bash – Mr Bean, James Bond et al – celebrated the way that British culture has resounded all around the world. But there are more subtle ways to win friends and influence people....
...While Lee is in Paris at Kreo’s rue Dauphine space with work from artists Donald Judd, Larry Clark and Michelangelo Pistoletto et al, the Krzentowskis will be in London with a selection of limited edition...
...The song with Thom Yorke is one of the few sung tracks on the album. “I need to know you’re out there,” the Radiohead singer croons mournfully....
...al it became, by the late 1960s, a vehicle for six-string wizardry....
...This weekend brings excerpts by Williams et al and Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin with a score assembled from Shostakovich symphonies. And popcorn is on sale in the foyer....
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