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Conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, the visiting orchestra’s programmes of Bruckner, Mahler and Berg made for unforgettable listening
...The group says its art collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Gustav Klimt....
...the early 20th century: Otto Dix’s flushed and kohl-eyed nude from 1926, halfheartedly trying to cover herself; Oskar Kokoschka’s luridly lit Peter Altenberg, with his wild whiskers and mangled hands; George...
...From a central space, Jack Elwes’s deepfake cabaret drag installation “The Zizi Show” (2020-23) blares out Beyoncé and George Michael and sends neon-pink and orange flickers down two long, classically hung...
...The star of the night was Georges Seurat’s 1888 painting “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (petite version)”, which was sold for $149mn, including the buyer’s premium....
...Set against Gustav Holst’s hymn ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, with union jacks and a deep-voiced narrator, the message of Penny Mordaunt’s campaign launch video for the Conservative party leadership was pure...
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...The Swede Gustav Erik Pasch invented the “safety match” in 1844, replacing white phosphorus with the less toxic red variety, and paving the way for industrialisation....
...As the long-term chairman of Schroders throughout its most transformative period, George Mallinckrodt oversaw its metamorphosis from a blue blood private bank that counted the Queen among its clients into...
...Silbermann’s interaction with Gustav Becker, his business partner and old army comrade, is especially well drawn....
...Take Barbra Streisand’s guest list of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt and Fanny Brice....
...It is a piano version of Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter”, the score to “I Vow to Thee, My Country”....
...As the artist’s friend Gustav Geoffroy wrote, for years “Capucines” was “the chief argument against M Claude Monet’s painting”....
...His name was George Gustav Heye....
...On her playlist: Gustav Mahler, George Gershwin and Spanish songwriter and singer Julio Iglesias....
...As the opera was originally composed, the plot of Verdi’s A Masked Ball was a fictionalised account of the lead-up to the assassination of Gustav III of Sweden — an event that had transfixed Europe in 1792...
...Just a few weeks ago, another exciting resurrection occurred in Tuscany when a painting thought to be by Gustav Klimt, apparently stolen over 20 years ago, was found by a gardener under the ivy-cloaked wall...
...Kahchun Wong, winner of the latest Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, while amply impressive throughout the evening, made Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird (1919 version) the evening’s high point....
...Grange Park Opera performed it in the so-called Boston version created by the Italian censors to avoid regicide by turning Gustav into Riccardo, a fictional English governor in 17th-century New England;...
...The original scenario for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera focused on a historical event — the assassination in 1792 of Gustav III of Sweden at the opera house he constructed in Stockholm....
Simon Rattle turned to smaller works for his first Barbican concert of 2018
...George Prochnik’s Stranger in a Strange Land is defined by that foremost rabbinical injunction to remember....
...Once dismissed as “expensively second-class” by the writer George Bernard Shaw, today his powerfully expressive music is feted for its psychological complexity and musical daring....
...Gustav led us through the mission, the pews still there, shelves filled with rusty tin cans, old mangles lying idle, and outside again to a triptych of panels....
...With Janie Dee and George MacKay....
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