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...With musicians Soweto Kinch, Sheila Maurice-Grey and DJ and broadcaster Gilles Peterson on the jury, the fellowship for jazz composition is a big endorsement given to musicians “at a pivotal moment in their...
...It owed millions of dollars more to suppliers such as Calvin Klein-owner PVH. Insurance money had helped save the company before....
...His honey and gravel voice sounds as French as Maurice Chevalier eating a baguette halfway up the Eiffel Tower… 40 years of living in New York notwithstanding....
...Then, Paris police chief Maurice Papon — who as a Nazi collaborator had rounded up French Jews before their deportation to Auschwitz — gave orders that led to the murder of perhaps 300 Algerian demonstrators...
...In Fatal Risk, his book on AIG’s crisis years, the journalist Roddy Boyd notes that: “Fifty years before Peter Drucker and other management gurus by the boatload would preach decentralisation . . ....
...Baron Maurice Rothschild bequeathed them to the city of Geneva and the botanic garden manages them as a well-kept secret....
...The main attraction was a new production of Knussen’s operatic double-bill based on children’s books by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop!....
...He writes “in praise of banality”, analyses Strauss’s Elektra and waxes lyrical about “the heart of Maurice Ravel”. Poulenc’s independence of spirit is emblazoned on every page....
...I was introduced to him by Anne Boyd, a journalist. She said, ‘Come on Joan, you have done this for Calvin so now you have to do this for Ralph’....
...But, like Schletty, Boyd says she has no regrets....
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