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...The three singers — soprano Louise Alder and tenor Toby Spence, both English, and Canadian baritone Gerald Finley — are familiar faces, and much of the music was homegrown, too....
...Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) has been making inroads into classical music, including two recent ballets, a major opera by Unsuk Chin (with another reportedly to follow), and this children’s opera by Gerald...
...Kristin Scott Thomas was the elegant narrator, Toby Spence the cautious tenor, in an intermittently sharp performance with the London Philharmonic Choir and Trinity Boys Choir....
...However, Gerald Brockhurst, despite borrowing the misty, steel-blue mountains beloved of Leonardo as a backdrop, falls on the sword of his own perfectionist technique....
...Some iterations of that message included perhaps the worst campaign slogan of all time, from longtime Clinton friend – and ad man – Roy Spence: “Neither change nor continuity but The different way....
...Gerald Finley’s resonant baritone led a decent quartet of soloists (Ailish Tynan, Jennifer Johnston and Toby Spence) but the glory of the performance was again the choral singing....
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