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...The women stride to the fore here: Maclean’s wonderfully headstrong Bella; Crystal Condie’s wise, sharp-eyed pub landlady; Tredrea’s beautiful, blazingly spirited Lizzie; and Ellie-May Sheridan’s astute...
...Japan, according to the IFPI, is the world’s second biggest recorded music market....
...The bright-eyed classical style of the earlier sonatas gives way to music of depth and richness, so that nothing in the Sonata No 37 feels predictable, and the bold Sonata No 47 and angst-filled No 49 reach...
...Gibson is clear-eyed too. “Do I agree with his personal beliefs? Absolutely not. Do I think he is a great artist? Absolutely....
...He is a doer rather than a dreamer, co-founding the Womad festival and Real World record label to promote music from all parts of the globe. He’s on rock’s humanitarian wing, yet isn’t too preachy....
...Will.i.am, the Grammy-award winning rapper from the Black Eyed Peas group, has long mesmerised millennials with his music....
...The lack of a musical arc doesn’t help: the uncredited score veers from shapeless techno to classical music and popular songs....
...Katya Kumkova Yeah, and he’s got weird goo on his teeth for some reason. Rana Foroohar Yeah. Katya Kumkova We probably don’t need to get into the goo....
...In music you have to be the kind of person who likes to take risks – and who doesn’t want to stop.”...
...It’s four in the morning in the Leopolis Hotel in Lviv and a group of bleary-eyed Brits, many of a certain age, are stumbling downstairs to the basement. It is not very long since we were in the bar....
...Confronted by the tractor beam of modernity — five thousand phone flashlights bouncing off disco balls, with Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar Suite blaring overhead — the milky-eyed stereotype of Tom Pinch at...
...The second of six shows there opened with a resplendent figure in an ornate pink Regency dress casting side-eyed snark at the more senior members of the audience (“Some of you have waited 40 years for this...
...But it is the glassy-eyed belief that these US stocks’ ascent represent some kind of new revolutionary productivity paradigm, led by artificial intelligence and spilling its bounty across corporate America...
...When she began releasing music with the label and art collective PC Music a decade ago, she was ambivalent about her material being described as “cute”; she has since seized that spirit across her vivid...
...She boasts of her gifts as a singer as well as a painter in “Self-portrait at the Crossroads between the Arts of Music and Painting”....
...What’s less well-known is that Martin is also a massive music geek....
...I am not starry-eyed about human interaction. Customer service staff can be just as jobsworthy as any chatbot, but you always feel there is the chance of igniting an ember of empathy....
...Meanwhile, the integration of music, dance and song is gorgeously effective....
...They wander open-mouthed, looking up, as bells and later organ music are heard — a nod, presumably, to the church that hosted the premiere in Wuppertal....
...Her wide-eyed look, straight locks and fringe, and tomboyish style were much admired and copied....
...Though her blank-eyed aloofness has long been part of Del Rey’s appeal, her affection for the fans here was obvious....
...While Elliott has eyed Currys as a possible acquisition target for several years, last month its initial two bids were both rejected quickly by the company....
...Feed the Beast is clear-eyed about the nature of the beast, namely Petras’s appetite for mainstream fame. But it proves less sure about how to feed it....
...Sprawled against the barrier, characters straight out of Hogarth’s “Beer Street” — tinny in one hand, ciggy in the other — swayed misty-eyed to “Don’t Cry”....
...The islanders’ traditional music, song and dance, known as sega tambour, is so distinctive Unesco has designated it a part of humanity’s “intangible cultural heritage”....
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