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...It is likely to become a classic on a par with Clark’s diaries. Stewart, like Clark, is a sharp observer with a wicked turn of phrase....
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
...So this is a remarkably absorbing Elektra, energised not just by Evelyn Herlitzius’ gritty anti-heroine and Waltraud Meier’s unclichéd Clytemnestra, but by Chéreau’s decision to show the two revenge-murders...
...Brendan Lemon is an FT critic Photographs: Estate of Evelyn Hofer; Wenn; Getty; David Seymour...
...Euston Hall in Suffolk boasts the work of some of Britain's greatest landscapers: Capability Brown, John Evelyn and William Kent....
...My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59, edited by Robert Cumming, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$45 A meeting of minds between the flamboyant connoisseur and the distinguished...
...Dick Crossman merely broke political convention, detailing his rows as housing minister with his department’s “utterly contemptuous and arrogant” civil service head, Dame Evelyn Sharp....
...Until recently the field was dominated by one player: Evelyn Glennie. Now Currie, also a Scot, is very much to the fore....
...Had I been asked to contribute some such remark on this book, I would have proffered (borrowing from Evelyn Waugh), “Up to a point, Lord Copper.”...
...Annette Dasch’s Elsa was too sterile for my taste but made an effective foil for Evelyn Herlitzius’ squally, histrionically riveting Ortrud....
...Like the NYOGB in those distant days, it now has a handful of members from far-flung parts of the UK (though none from the Outer Hebrides or northern isles), and a distinguished list of alumni, including Evelyn...
...James MacMillan Veni, Veni, Emmanuel Evelyn GlennieRCA Red Seal MacMillan’s success is baffling....
...My favourite song is “Love Come Down” by Evelyn King. It’s an old 1980s tune, but whenever I have parties at my house, or my friends come over to get ready to go out, we play it full blast....
...More surprisingly, for an author who has written so much about the darker side of humanity, McEwan longs to write “something really funny – not a comic novel, but in the spirit of Evelyn Waugh, where the...
...Georg Nigl was the appealingly young Wozzeck, Evelyn Herlitzius a heart-wrenching Marie, while the veteran Heinz Zednik provided a surprise cameo as the Fool....
...The ghost of Sir John Barbirolli, the Hallé’s postwar saviour (whose widow, the distinguished oboist Evelyn Barbirolli, died only last week), hung over the proceedings, which were tastefully compered by...
...Surtees in the 19th century to Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh in the 20th. The bloodier aspects of the hunt have also provided inspiration - in Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth, for example....
...Volume Three opens with his debutante daughter Candida at the heart of Swinging Sixties London, her portrait painted by David Hockney in a dress designed by Ossie Clark, while Summoned by Bells is panned...
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