Hints and tips:
...Sam and Sam Clark, Moro chefs“Small-batch mezcal from El Destilado and tequilas from The Sampler on Upper Street....
...Clark, a former Kellogg executive....
...Celeste Lazarenko’s Mary had the best voice, and Simon Thorpe was a suitably bluff John the Butcher....
...For the past few months a small flock of zebra finches has transformed the Barbican’s Curve Gallery into an artistic aviary: a unique installation by the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot used nature...
...But last week, thanks to an unfortunate balance of music in the first concert (dominated by Boulez’s Sur incises), Couleurs de la cité céleste and Sept Haïkaï came across like dogmatic catechisms – fixated...
...His shading of the top B flat ending to “Celeste Aida” was especially welcome....
...As told to Andrew Clark. To share your story with the FT Magazine, e-mail firstperson@ft.com...
...He always was more impressive as a theatre conductor than in the concert hall, and despite a sagging pulse for “Celeste Aida”, evidently dictated by Roberto Alagna’s nervous Radamès, he created a wonderful...
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