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ReviewMusic
A five-star performance from Joyce DiDonato and an improved Handmaid’s Tale — review
...As for Purcell’s music, the Pomo d’Oro showed its brilliant variety of mood, rhythm, colour and melody....
February 6, 2024
News in-depthFootball
David and Goliath: Luton vs Man City clash shows highs and lows of Premier League
...“If you told me then we’d be in the Premier League, I’d have fallen over laughing.”...
December 9, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News in-depthEducation
US colleges explore alternatives to affirmative action after Supreme Court ruling
...I’d always assumed affirmative action worked at the level of acceptances, but after the ban, students didn’t apply even though a lot were strong and would have got in.”...
July 5, 2023
FT MagazineDesign special
The best chair for work might not be the one you think
...I’d look over at my pristine desk and daydream about how it might feel to work without my laptop warming my knees....
June 4, 2022
Travel
43 holidays to take in 2024
...The newest hotel in Venice, Violino d’Oro (violinodoro.com; doubles from €658) is close by, as is the Pensione Accademia (pensioneaccademia.it; doubles from about €300)....
December 30, 2023
Travel
Deep in the Canadian wilderness, ski-touring heaven
...Up early for a hearty breakfast prepared by cook Ann Palmer, after which we’d each make our packed lunches for the day: sandwiches, homemade cakes, fruit and nuts....
November 30, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
HTSIHow To Give It 2022
The school of Jimmy Choo
...“We’d look at it thinking, my God, what a beautiful house, not knowing that it was derelict inside,” says the academy and makerspace’s director and chief executive, Stephen Smith....
December 9, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
Miss Dior by Justine Picardie — of a different cloth
...These include Virginia d’Albert-Lake, an American heroine of the French Resistance, who wrote a precise report of the time she spent in the Parisian prison of Fresnes, before being deported to Ravensbrück...
October 21, 2021
FT Magazine
Anne Imhof: an artist for the end of times
...The accompaniment shifted to a recording of Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament”, getting somehow louder in the process....
October 7, 2022
FT MagazineTim Hayward
At The Bell Inn, Tim Hayward faces his fears: liver and Oxfordshire
...I swore I’d never enter the county again, nor eat liver, but The Bell cured me of both with calves’ liver and pancetta....
July 21, 2022
InterviewMusic
Errollyn Wallen — picking up Purcell’s pieces
...I’d think: ‘I’m not thinking about that. I’m just thinking about the music.’” For Wallen, “thinking about the music” seems to have provided insulation against the outside world....
June 3, 2021
Clement Crisp
Clement Crisp: a career in quotes
...‘Khan has that rarest of dance gifts’ Eleven/Ronin/Anandam, Akram Khan Company, Purcell Room, London (April 16 2003) “[Akram] Khan’s brilliance in this style is beyond question. Lightning speed....
August 14, 2021
HTSI
The 50 greatest food stores in the world
...Order a sandwich, like the weekly grilled cheese special or the Catharine (roast free-range turkey, Cheddar, bacon, avocado spread, sprouts and Russian dressing)....
May 19, 2021
InterviewHow to Lead
Colm Kelleher wanted to leave Morgan Stanley before the recession hit
...If he were still in his old seat, he’d keep trading risk low. “The most important thing here is you just have to stay close to shore,” he says, “facilitate where you can, and try and protect the bank....
July 12, 2020
HTSI
Adidas’ new superstar
...Chuck Taylor, Jack Purcell, Stan Smith and Walt “Clyde” Frazier were all sportsmen who had sneakers named after or created for them....
June 13, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov: the superstar violinist celebrating 40 years on stage
...If you took teaching away from me, I’d do more conducting. If you took away my violin I’d start itching and I’d say, ‘give it back’.”...
March 6, 2020
FT Swamp Notes
Waking up to a new decade and a second sleep
...Your feedback We’d love to hear from you....
January 6, 2020
HTSI
How To Give It: a complete guide to smart philanthropy
...“I thought I’d be able to visit the projects [over the past decade he’s visited sites in Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Nepal and Romania], but not that I’d have opportunities to stay over in them or...
February 5, 2020
InterviewTheatre
Playwright Cordelia Lynn: ‘Big male writers are so often adapted by other big male writers’
...As we’re preparing to leave, she admits that she’d nearly said no to Three Sisters — she’d worried that she wouldn’t be up to it....
April 10, 2019
FT MagazineWeddings — a summer special
Olivia Laing: why I’m marrying the same man twice
...I swore that I’d treat the wedding just like a party, that I’d be the epitome of chill, unflustered grace, but instead I’m writing playlists at dawn and having panic attacks on Twitter about an incipient...
August 17, 2018
News in-depthUS & Canadian companies
Morgan Stanley’s rising star moves closer to top job
...It followed a bruising battle over the leadership of Phil Purcell, who had forced Mr Mack out four years earlier....
July 11, 2018
FT SeriesArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
From cop shop to culture hub: Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun centre
...In some cities you’d worry that this was merely a gesture, a dark, leftover undercroft destined for neglect....
March 29, 2018
ObituaryLife & Arts
Director and impresario Sir Peter Hall dies at 86
...“But I’d say that his greatest legacy was the Royal Shakespeare Company.”...
September 12, 2017
Life & Arts
Postcard from . . . Norwich: my weekend as a cathedral chorister
...Later, when we sing Purcell’s work, “Thou Knowest, Lord”, my mum is struck by a phrase referring to God’s “merciful ears”....
October 27, 2017
Provincial lifeJane Owen
Fantasy wedding has a natural pecking order
...Maybe Purcell’s Fairy Queen would be a more appropriate theme here with its wonderful wedding aria “Thrice Happy Lovers”....
May 5, 2017

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