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...That sat quite well with Gerald Barry’s 1987 Chevaux-de-frise, a 20-minute orgy of violent sound that Adès took to with sledgehammer glee. It is fun for a few minutes, but grinds you down after that....
...Roger Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union, New York, June 2 1976; IF Stone, journalist, Washington, DC, July 8 1976; Jules Stein, founder, Music Corporation of America, New York, May 28 1976; Shirley...
...Most compelling of all is Gerald Finley’s Jago....
...First, a manifesto that Gerald Kaufman described as the longest suicide note in history. Second, a leader, Michael Foot, who believed in it. Foot had qualities....
...Gerald Barry’s operatic adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest has little right to work....
...Gerald Finley does not emphasise the brutality of Golaud’s vocal lines, but Rattle places plenty of emphasis on the threatening aspects of Debussy’s orchestration, helped by the dark weight of the orchestra...
...Three Republican presidents – Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush – appointed her to jobs....
...This occasioned a series of solo virtuoso works (Kurtág, Donatoni, Scelsi, Billone, Pintscher, Poppe), followed by Gerald Resch’s Collection Serti (2011) für Ensemble, in which all the instruments of the...
...An excellent cast, led by Gerald Finley, on magnificent form in the title role, brought drama and momentum. Pappano made swathes of judicious cuts in Rossini’s score and kept tension high....
...Paolo Lopez was suitably oily and smooth as Cortés, Gerald Thompson unnervingly violent as his captain Narvès, March Chambers disarmingly sweet as Montezuma’s Cassandra-like general Pilpatoè....
...Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Gerald Finley (Hyperion) Britten’s oeuvre is so dominated by the music he composed for Peter Pears, his long-time partner and creative muse, that it’s easy...
...awkwardness of tone, such as Edward Baker-Duly’s characterisation of cousin Clive: he is too thoroughly the cad in co-respondent shoes to handle plausibly his sudden coup de foudre by pyjama-clad Rhoda (Kellie Shirley...
...Gerald Fitzgerald, head of property investment at Smiths Gore, said: “Demand for rural land over the medium term looks to be holding up....
...Punching back Gerald Putnam, the NYSE’s vice-chairman, showed there are still plenty of sharp elbows in the trading community despite the migration of most business from the floor to the screen....
...The obituaries for Gerald Ford himself last week were more kind than cruel but his role in healing the country after Watergate is not rated that highly – he makes no one’s top 20....
...That is certainly the case at Sotheby’s Olympia saleroom on Wednesday when Dame Shirley Bassey is having a clear-out of furniture from her Monaco apartment....
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