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...Bach: Goldberg Variations Vikingur Ólafsson It is 25 years since Vikingur Ólafsson decided he wanted to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations....
...To August 16; further information and tickets here ‘Charles Gaines: 1992—2023’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami To illustrate Charles Gaines’s contribution to the world of conceptual art, 60 of his...
...Rachman Review podcast: Gideon Rachman talks to Charles Grant, head of the Centre for European Reform, about the impact of the Russian threat on US ties with Europe, and on Nato and the EU....
...The day ahead Earnings State Street, an innovator in the market for exchange traded funds, and rival Charles Schwab publish earnings today....
...The next day we have a private tour of Versailles’ royal mansions: Louis XIV’s Grand Trianon, a place of male power, where centuries later President Charles de Gaulle would receive guests, and the Petit...
...“To my knowledge, neither Beethoven nor Bach nor Stravinsky would invite anybody to work on the arrangements of their pieces.”...
...“My wife Barbara's a blessing [actress Barbara Bach], my children are blessings, I’ve got eight grandkids now and a great grandson.”...
...Perhaps unreasonably I rate our continent’s culture more highly than anyone else’s; I speak French fairly well, and Spanish and German rather badly; my favourite composers are Bach and Beethoven....
...Yes, Widmann can write — everything from syrupy love duets and parody Bavarian marches to cacophonous outcries and Bach chorales — but what is he trying to tell us?...
...In Charles Coleman’s Drenched and Bach Inspired, Handel and Bach are given the pops treatment, energised and romanticised respectively....
...“I would rather that everyone read a good book, or listened to a little Bach.”...
...Even a walk across the Charles Bridge is a concert of its own: you can approach from the east bank to the sound of a man playing Bach on the rim of glasses of water set out on a table, and arrive on the...
...“But I do listen a lot to the works of Bach. Jazz? Absolutely, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis… A favourite rap star? Jay-Z is great.”...
...We skipped Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, readings at the 92nd Street Y, the Village Vanguard. We missed Brooklyn altogether....
...I should have asked why — Rafael Behr in the The Guardian Money is too important to be left to the central bankers or the ‘technofreaks’ — Ivar Ekeland and Jean-Charles Rochet in Le Monde How Germany’s...
...Simone, she says, took Bach, laid down a beat and made something new: Bushell-Mingo does the same, mixing biography and autobiography with an impassioned plea for change....
...with the writer Luke Turner taking to the east London venue’s stage to reminisce about cruising for sex in Epping Forest as a way of escaping depression; it ended, some 90 minutes later, with the musician Charles...
...Dennett’s claims are inspired by two English scientists: Charles Darwin and Alan Turing....
...Before long, she is sucked into a nefarious Charles Manson-esque cult. “Lush and lapidary and full of startling imagery,” said the FT....
...the naturalist Charles Darwin, the other by the computer scientist Alan Turing....
...Suddenly, the assumption ingrained in western composition since Bach — that music ought to be driven forward by narratives spelt out by dramatic gear-changes of mood — had been banished....
...Charles Clover...
...Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Charles Mingus applied exactly the same attitude to their material; they refused to make their music acceptable.”...
...He then points towards an eclectic yet unkempt music collection that spans everything from Bach to Charles Mingus....
...Michael is a governor of the Southbank Centre and adores classical music, observing that a well-lived life passes from Beethoven to Mozart to Bach (from passion to harmony and, then, acceptance)....
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