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...Still, big financial services deals are going to bring scrutiny, and the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren have already called for regulators to block the merger....
...He is remembered now as the foremost composer of the generation before Purcell....
...He envisages it as something along the lines of the UK’s Purcell and Yehudi Menuhin schools, where children can weave academic studies around a busy practice schedule....
...What was to be done with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room? Widely derided as architecture, they were looking ever more shabby and unloved....
...Like Elizabeth Taylor and Hilary Mantel, I’m marrying the same man twice. The only difference is that we didn’t get divorced first. Round one was in August last year: the register office special....
...The Hayward, which was opened in 1968 and forms part of a concrete cluster along with the equally brutal Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Rooms, makes itself difficult to love....
...In Blow’s An Ode, the instrumentalists also painted vivid pictures, particularly Elizabeth Kenny, who headbanged along with her lute-playing when the text described Purcell’s eviction from Hell....
...Despite the atmospheric, candlelit setting, countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny eluded the hackneyed and the twee, serving up rarefied, melancholic songs by Handel, Purcell and Dowland...
...SH shakespearesglobe.com, 020 7401 9919, to June 7 The Spalding Suite, Queen Elizabeth Hall (Purcell Room), Southbank Centre, London A new physical theatre piece by Inua Ellams, directed by Benji Reid...
...The first course offered a bracing suite from Purcell’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, which sounds almost as fresh today as it must have in 1692....
...Mike Hobart ronniescotts.co.uk, 020 7439 0747 Kassé Mady Diabaté, November 23, Purcell Room, London Being described as the best singer in Mali by Salif Keita is a rare honour....
...Four superb vocal soloists (Elizabeth Cragg, Reinoud van Mechelen, Konstantin Wolff and McFadden) add to the aural pleasure. But there are too few notes, and too many words....
...Cabaret feeds on fumes and sweat and Queen Elizabeth Hall is relentlessly airy. The set is irrelevant, the plot is missing and bits of the script drag....
...That juxtaposition of Rameau and Purcell was telling, insofar as it profiled the dominant role of dance in early 18th-century French musical aesthetics....
...Lisette Oropesa (Miranda) and Layla Claire (Helena) floated innocently through their confused-soprano platitudes, and Elizabeth DeShong made Hermia strikingly plush and spunky....
...Handel has become a repertory staple, while Monteverdi, Purcell and Cavalli have all been given greater exposure....
...Over the next six weeks Philip Pickett and the New London Consort will be taking their staging of Purcell’s “semi-opera” on tour to cities in the UK, France and Spain....
...I would love to get drunk in the kitchen with Elizabeth David. Will you be online or offline? To anyone reading this, offline. Item you are unable to leave at home?...
...Curated by the art historian Elizabeth Cowling, the show is built around “Woman”, a 1961 sheet-metal work from the museum’s own collection....
...‘The Big Bash’, Purcell Room, London, February 15. www.southbankcentre.co.uk ‘Drumming’, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, February 16 (discussion with Steve Reich follows the performance); also at Birmingham...
...That’s not to say One Evening won’t prove controversial: Mitchell polarised opinion with her unorthodox dramatisation of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Eliot’s Four Quartets and, most recently, Purcell’s Dido...
...In a beauty parade of anniversary composers numbering Mendelssohn, Handel and Purcell, Haydn – who died 200 years ago – was always going to be a hard sell. He wrote no popular operas....
...Competing events include Femi Kuti’s throbbing upgrade of Afrobeat at the Royal Festival Hall, orchestral world jazz from the gorgeous-toned vocalist Dhafer Youssef and the Britten Sinfonia at the Queen Elizabeth...
...Richard Tarlton (1530-1588) was, perhaps, the most famous clown of his era and a favourite of Elizabeth I....
...Although a century separates Marlowe from Purcell, the extracts were well chosen to fill the gaps and deftly interleaved by Tim Carroll – too much so in the final scene, where Purcell’s flow kept getting...
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