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...From Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin to Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, the A-list has dined here....
...This summer, more than 45 years after the death of the festival’s co-founder, composer Benjamin Britten, Aldeburgh continues to push boundaries, introducing new composers, new music and new ideas about music...
...The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, translated by Ross Benjamin (Schocken) Complete and uncensored diaries from the master of the nightmarish in a new translation that features material available...
...(Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled Arabic’s status as an official language in the Jewish state, even though it’s the mother tongue of a fifth of the population.)...
...It’s very restrictive,” says Benjamin Appl....
...Britten wrote the cycle for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone who was the giant of the recital hall in the postwar era, and if anybody has inherited his mantle, it is Gerhaher....
...The game players of the London Philharmonic, under Benjamin Northey, played a blinder with a deliriously avant-garde version of “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”....
...“There are other synthetic options, of course, but I’m a sucker for the Marlene Dietrich swan-down coat connotation, disguised as modest sportswear.”...
...Schubert Benjamin Appl (Wigmore Hall Live) In the refined world of song recitals Benjamin Appl is the new kid on the block....
...In 1963 Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten established a useful precedent, illuminating the cycle in a way that defies comparison with others....
...For much of the 1960s it was not Pears but Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya and the German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who acted as Britten’s muses....
...Some of the most distinguished names in the arts had been involved: Basil Spence was the architect, Jacob Epstein and Graham Sutherland provided sculpture and art, and Benjamin Britten was invited to compose...
...There are diverse roles in all the operas, of course, but this marvellous CD showcases the songs Britten wrote for the baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Shirley-Quirk and Benjamin Luxon – music that...
...Ryback’s discovery of a signed copy of Peer Gynt by Dietrich Eckart is a pretext for a description of Hitler’s relation with the rightist playwright who chaperoned the immigrant in 1920s Munich....
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