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...On the red carpet, brother-sister duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (who scooped the award for best song), Poor Things actors Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo and model and actor Quannah Chasinghorse...
...The three actors multitask their way through the action wearing white football kits and deploying song, shadow-play, magic tricks, mud, blood, balloons and sardonic humour....
...Who was Elizabeth I’s spymaster? At the end of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”, a “rough beast . . . slouches towards” where?...
...To be included in the same club as Queen Elizabeth II, a past recipient of the RBG award, is important....
...Other composers might dip a toe into classical with a symphony that is really a medley of songs....
...Elizabeth Watts was the radiant soprano, who not only sang the songs from memory, but also conducted. The other items were all for string orchestra, led from the violin by Marcus Barcham Stevens....
...Byrd’s more specifically royal composition O Lord Make Thy Servant Elizabeth Our Queen would not of course have fitted....
...Stile Antico takes his Mass for Four Voices, a Catholic masterpiece written covertly during the Protestant era of Queen Elizabeth I, and interleaves it with other pieces by Byrd in expressive, scrupulously...
...This would mean Netflix, Spotify and others had to stream a few seconds of news between songs at regular intervals, just as their predecessors did. But please, no more owls. stephen.bush@ft.com...
...“The Adams Administration” and “The Election of 1800” are songs from which award-winning musical?...
...To quote her song (and the name of another of her fragrances), Thank U, Next!...
...Woburn Abbey’s famous 1588 “Armada portrait” of Elizabeth I — on show at The Box until January 7 — is glimpsed in Arcadia, the queen’s hand resting proprietorially on a globe, challenging Spanish power in...
...Song 1 Song 2 (not that Song 2) Song 3 Song 4 Song 5 Song 6 Song 7 Song 8 Song 9 Song 10 7. C-suite Life Which finance industry tycoon helped bankroll Maroon 5’s first record?...
...Pride & Prejudice The dance where Elizabeth and Mr Darcy meet is real alchemy....
...The first song he played was “Here Comes the Sun”; the rest was dance music so we could bounce and sway in our puffy scooter suits....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I love old classics and wordy fiction....
...Last year, a harmonica player was arrested after playing “Glory to Hong Kong” outside the British consulate at a vigil mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II....
...Iacobescu pushed buttons to flash colourful lights that marked each of the crucial railway lines he’d campaigned for — including the Elizabeth Line....
...Add in Kitty’s ex-husband (Clive Francis) and handsome outsider Teddy (Chirag Benedict Lobo) who is wooing Elizabeth hard, and a crisis looms. Will Elizabeth stay or go?...
...It is depressing to reflect on the history of ENO during Elizabeth II’s reign....
...celebrated monogamy, the song was titled “Freedom”, as though to fit the individualist age....
...Her reserve is designed to heighten her songs’ messaging, not cloak her in mystery. The singer otherwise known as Elizabeth Grant swims against the tide in this respect....
...I recently heard the song “Be Patient, Cossack” performed by a young singer and was surprised to learn that the lyrics had been written by world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk....
...This is an ode to life’s little pleasures: Hirayama listens to a favourite song on his way to work, retires to bed with a good book, enjoys an unexpected visit from a niece with whom he gets on well....
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