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...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...It’s one novel written by 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Angie Cruz, and the Goosebumps author RL Stine....
...So I think a lot of the best biopics and recent one I thought was terrific was Maestro, the film about Leonard Bernstein, right?...
...The skills of figures with great impact on follicular fashion are also on display, including Léonard Autier, a favoured hairdresser of Marie Antoinette, alongside creations from fashion powerhouses such...
...Mary Celeste Beall, proprietor of Blackberry Farm “A year after [my husband] Sam died, someone said ‘you have to put your cape on first’....
...Anne Marie reminds Nora that poverty drove her to leave her own child to care for Nora and her children: a move that enabled Nora’s choice....
...Marshall, the Foreign Office employee turned whistleblower, claimed that at various points he was alone dealing with a huge case of emails in “a Foreign Office that was effectively a Marie Celeste”, Tugendhat...
...Maurizio’s impeccable, Savile Row-style suits were made by New York tailor Leonard Logsdail, who has worked on Succession, and also by Zegna....
...Bure resident Anne-Marie Henn, a retiree, says the project has forced her and her artist husband Jacques to give up on their dream of creating a painting atelier in an annex to their home....
...The new year kicks off on a suitably contemplative note with Leonard Mlodinow’s Emotional (Allen Lane, January), in which the celebrated theoretical physicist turns his attention to the science of how we...
...Heading the team of professionals is the boundlessly enthusiastic but somewhat distant Leonard Montefiore (Tim McInnerny)....
...With self-quarantining leading to lots of us cleaning out our cupboards, Emma Jacobs talks (via Zoom) with tidying queen Marie Kondo about her new book, Joy at Work....
...The bass heaves itself into life as the song lifts into the chorus; lilting violin from Mokrane Adiani gives a hint of an arrangement from Massi’s longtime hero Leonard Cohen....
...Leonard is a tall, striking beauty with a slightly colourless light voice suspended between mezzo and soprano. Blanche has been sung mostly by sopranos, and the tessitura tests Leonard on top....
...Isabel Leonard is in beautifully resonant voice as Mélisande and sings with appropriate simplicity, although she could do more to suggest the character’s impetuosity and fragility....
...Do they also know that Leonard Bernstein was the composer of a fair-sized corpus of “serious” music, including three symphonies, written around the same period?...
...Lives of Outsider Women, which rescues from the perceived shadows lesser-known pioneers such as Dora Russell and Annie Besant, alongside Stevie Smith, Isak Dinesen and Marie Stopes....
...They were hauntingly empty, a kind of vast Marie Celeste: I half-expected to glimpse unfinished meals on the tables through the cracked shop windows, which still have that specific 1950s pre-computerised...
...The writer is deputy editor of the New Statesman Letter in response to this article: Gervais, God and a category error / From John Leonard...
...… I am rather keen on the burning of incense sticks in a style reminiscent of my navel-gazing youth – floor cushions, kaftans, Moroccan rugs, Leonard Cohen melancholia and Marie Rose sauce – the best...
...Mme Lidoine, Elizabeth Bishop as the sympathetic Mère Marie and, most shattering, Felicity Palmer as the dying Prioress....
...This is the Provençal aesthetic that French hotelier Jocelyne Sibuet nailed in 2000 with La Bastide de Marie, her retreat in fashionable Lubéron....
...At the far end is a Marie Celeste of a boardroom, an eerie, glass-walled enclave with a table encircled by huge swivel chairs. They are empty today, but the recovery centres are regularly busy....
...”) woos her with a Presleyesque number to which the others sing in backing vocals “Administratin’… administratin’…”; Honey’s nervous tic increases to the point where she resembles the late Leonard Rossiter...
...In the early 1960s Sainte-Marie was a habituée of the Greenwich Village coffee houses, along with her compatriots Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan....
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