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...After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the $110tn global asset management industry stood out in its efforts to signal its concerns about racism....
...Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth, by Oliver Hilmes, Yale RRP£25 Liszt’s daughter became not just Wagner’s second wife but high priestess of the Wagnerian cult, surviving the composer for nearly 50 years...
...SF: That’s actually quite Germanic and I happen to be rather a worshipper of Wagner, which is a very unfashionable thing to do. LG: Viking....
...Syd Barrett was washed up by 25, having launched Pink Floyd as London’s leading psychedelic adventurers. Then came mental breakdown....
...And he plunged into a wild and purple rap that skipped from Wagner to Hendrix, from Nietzsche to football (finding a way, somehow, to mention how often Germany had won the World Cup)....
...He shot to fame at the 1989 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has won critical praise in the operas of Mozart and Wagner, which suit his richly coloured bass-baritone....
...The scrutiny of individuals’ choices reached a clamour this May when David Cameron chose Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and REM, supposedly demonstrating that he was a regular guy....
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