Hints and tips:
...Night owls will not want to miss John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, likely to make a scorching late Prom (Tuesday)....
...From 1993 she devoted herself to writing, publishing her debut novel, The Wig My Father Wore, two years later. Enright’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review....
...Two hundred years later we have an image of Haydn as the embodiment of 18th-century cheerfulness – a powdered wig framing what Kenneth Clark called “the smile of reason”....
...He followed up last year with another six composers in Why Handel Waggled His Wig. The first book has been translated into several languages but not published in the US. ”Apparently it’s too humorous....
...And unfortunately the composers who write this fiercely cerebral music don’t have the vision that Beethoven had.”...
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