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...Of the many distinctions of this rich and visionary novel, perhaps the greatest is its prose....
...Bess had been deeply involved in the design of her earlier dwelling, a little house named Chatsworth....
...As the century commenced, Elizabeth I was still on the throne — not the Queen Bess of lore and legend, but rather an ageing and unpopular queen presiding over a kingdom, and a capital city, troubled by endless...
...Tracks are short and punchy, solos excite, and there is an ten-minute “Porgy and Bess” medley to show off drummer and band....
...Sarah-Jane Lewis sings a rich-toned Serena, Donovan Singletary plays a self-confident Crown, and Francesca Chiejina launches the evening with a radiant “Summertime”....
...– Bess Levin on Cliff Asness’ bold stand that there should be no government interference unless the government is giving him $35m. – 2009: The year the Democratic Party died....
...If you think that inequality is bad today, just wait until we have a “biologically based caste system” in which the rich will be able to guarantee their outperformance....
...The Grand Tour culminates at the Harley Gallery, at Welbeck Abbey, in an area once called the Dukeries for its dense population of powerful families, rich from coal and Cavendish inheritances....
...Eighty years ago, George and Ira Gershwin and the author DuBose Heyward premiered their folk opera Porgy and Bess. It was not, initially, a success....
...“The price has gone up a lot in the past year,” says Rod Kosann, chief executive of Monica Rich Kosann....
...It was hard not to enjoy favourite numbers from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess when Latonia Moore and Williams were the singers....
...Nobel laureate and native son Joseph Brodsky, exiled by the Soviets, reflects on the city’s rich heritage while writers from Nabokov to the dissident Andrei Makine offer differing perspectives of its modern...
...Instead Wilson moves swiftly into Elizabethan marriage, arriving at Bess of Hardwick, the squire’s daughter who rose to be Countess of Shrewsbury....
...One so hopes that Bess, Anthony and the others made it to the British lines during the war, and so to freedom....
...Then on Saturday, the Opéra de Lyon has the first of three performances of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess....
...In Venezuela, fish are jumping in ways undreamed of by George Gershwin in Porgy and Bess....
...The New Deal, he suggests, brought more collective optimism in the virtue of the common man, seen in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess or Copland’s populist works, such as Billy the Kid....
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