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...Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato has substantial experience in the role of Sister Helen, as does bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, who sings De Rocher....
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...The 8-hectare garden was described by Edith Wharton in 1903 as “one of the most beautiful pleasure-grounds in Italy”....
...Owen Birrell, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said the financial results were “impressively strong” but noted that the profit upgrade was driven by higher flight prices....
...This year’s offering consists of two overlapping 50-minute performances inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses in the centenary of its publication....
...It was their daughter, Iris, who came up with “Idea” – sequencing the initials of each of their names: her own, David, her sister Edith, and Angela....
...Edith Rousselot is the associate producer. Fact checking is by Arthur Gompertz. Jason Gambrell and Amanda Kay Wang are the mixing engineers. Sound design from Jake Gorski....
...Here Davies repositions Owen as central to Sassoon’s life, however briefly he knew him. (Owen died in 1918, a week before war ended.) The film is also open about the nature of their bond....
...Ireland did win the Grand Slam on Saturday but Kelleher was limited to enjoying a single pint of Guinness at the James Joyce pub in Zurich....
...There is tenderness, too, as Edith recalls the savage illness that struck down her mother when she was a child, and the more recent death of her lover....
...(A host of novelists, from James Joyce to Truman Capote and Edith Wharton, also wrote in bed.) Even if you aren’t, there is another reason it might pay to ponder this ritual: brain science....
...Do the poems of George’s daughter, Dame Edith, refer to Renishaw?...
...“Just as first world war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon blew apart notions of honour and chivalry with irony and black humour, Plath dealt a similar blow to postwar gentility.”...
...They have enlisted a highly impressive cast of singers, including Simon Keenlyside as a leather-clad biker, Anne-Marie Owens as Joyce the Cook, Susan Bullock as Claire the Claivoyant and Claire Booth as...
...The rest of the show reveals the influence of the émigré Modernists, from the beautiful Hertfordshire Schools to the works of Owen Williams, Denys Lasdun and Eric Lyons....
...new novel, longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, its 1,020 pages mostly constructed in one continuous sentence without full-stops or paragraph breaks, is a quotation from an earlier American writer, Edith...
...Grandi Giardini Italiani provided access for some of the gardens above for Jane Owen Jane Owen is the editor of House & Home and deputy editor of FT Weekend....
...suits of solemn black” donned by much of the cast, Ruth Negga gives a sharply drawn performance as the Prince of Denmark, who here seems unusually forceful and determined to wrest back the kingdom from Owen...
...In 1980, he took on what became his own Garden School, at Denmans in West Sussex, a landscaped garden made by the indomitable Joyce Robinson....
...Like so many people, my sense of the first world war came from Wilfred Owen and All Quiet on the Western Front. Now, Wilfred Owen’s poems are remarkable....
...However, when Owen Roe’s Boylan emerges from the shaft with what seems inexplicably to be a human baby, Mac an Bhaird starts blunderbussing: professional contention, family bereavement, SF or possible delusion...
...Bach to Edith Piaf — his Watch with Mother (Joyce Grenfell a haunting presence in a nursery school), Town and Country (satirical romping with urban and pastoral activities), and The Infernal Galop (a tourist...
...the Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from Goethe to Shelley, Wharton to Joyce...
...In contrast, “Little Drummer Boy”, taken as a New Orleans shuffle, lauded the joys of percussion — drummer Ulysses Owens Jr’s solo was a showstopper....
...Robert Joyce, an associate director at the IFS and one of the report’s authors, said the long-run effect of the introduction of universal credit would be “to reduce benefits for working families on average...
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