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...Then they found It’s a Wonderful Life, based on a short story called “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern, itself loosely based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol....
...Along Sukhumvit Road in central Bangkok are ornate Yuletide displays with carols pumped out at aggressive volumes....
...(In case you’ve been hiding under a dusty maths textbook for some time, Stormzy is the grime sensation who won BBC Music’s artist of 2017.)...
...Aldeburgh Music’s year-long centenary tribute includes two programmes of Britten’s carols on December 7 and 8. www.aldeburgh.co.uk For details of all events, visit www.britten100.org...
...He dislikes Peter Grimes, dismisses Verdi’s Requiem as kitsch and vents other private hatreds. He may throw little light on his own work but his lack of tact provides its own illumination....
...Many of the city’s new buildings were conceived before September 11 2001, including the Hearst Tower, notes Carol Willis, director of New York’s Skyscraper Museum....
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