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...An intense encore, Harold Mabern Jnr’s “In What Direction Are You Headed?”...
...I am a liberal Democrat who supported Karen Bass when Joe Biden was considering a running mate (“The Kamala Harris question”, Opinion, May 18)....
...Now 88, Riley can be said to have kicked off the entire repetitive minimalist movement, as well as national attention to San Francisco hippie diversity, with his In C from 1964....
...Brown liked to assure people he is a “regular guy,” said JoAnne Bass, the chief master sergeant of the Air Force....
...The first programme, under outgoing conductor Louis Langrée, paired the world premiere of Amir ElSaffar’s Dhikra (Remembrance) with Mozart’s Mass in C Minor....
...February 25 to July 28; further information and tickets here ‘Harold Cohen: AARON’, Whitney Museum of American Art AARON was the late artist Harold Cohen’s proto-AI art software, which was programmed to...
...At Kew, he has combined several, including the yellow-green stems of Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea; amber C sanguinea Anny’s Winter Orange; red C alba Sibirica; and purple-black C alba Kesselringii....
...Bragg has pushed his lovely-looking sea bass about a bit; as predicted, neither of us could be bothered with the broccoli....
...McKenzie, famous for his role in the drama The O.C., provides a gripping write-up of his personal journey to unveil what he considers to be the con underpinning the crypto world....
...“Something Changed” signalled a shift in trajectory, dedicated to the memory of Steve Mackey, the former Pulp bass guitarist who died this year....
...I didn’t recognise the music from its name but as I read the Life of a Song article (March 4) on Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C sharp minor I was sure I knew it....
...Starmer claims to be inspired by Harold Wilson, but this was his most Blairite speech to date. This new approach is clearly needed....
...A piece of music that orbits a doleful, three-note theme played in the bass, followed by a virtuosic run of triplets, the Prelude haunted Rachmaninoff throughout his life in exile....
...As Molly the opportunistic mare, Holly Flack gurgles and squeaks out notes that really should not exist, frequently floating around A above high C — so high that listening almost gives you a nose bleed....
...If the Shakespeare book comes out, don’t expect an exegesis of the plays that hadn’t occurred to Coleridge or Harold Bloom.But then fortunes aren’t paid in speaking fees to the dull....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...“C’est Marseille, bébé,” one of their number, SCH, rapped at the beginning amid a fusillade of boasts about drug-dealing and fast cars....
...“The Fours” comes next, with swirly textures and trumpet and flute riffing over a vamp of Junius Paul bass....
...The target temperature is adjustable from 20°C (slightly pointless) down to -20°C, and on its Max setting (ie, rapid cooling) it got down to fridge temperature from a standing start after 20 minutes of gentle...
...In an era awash with “move fast and break things” business strategies and social media influencers, I suppose our fascination with disruptive C-suite storytellers shouldn’t be all that surprising....
...Yet some believe Starmer has become too dependent on counsel from Blairites: “Harold Wilson, who won four elections, often said that like a bird, in order to fly Labour needed both a right wing and a left...
...That’s down to a) nostalgia, b) the fact that vinyl looks and feels nicer, and c) the belief that it sounds better....
...Meanwhile, jungle was morphing into drum and bass, a moodier, more minimal sound....
...These are followed by platters of meat and seafood, featuring lamb, octopus and sea bass....
...They understood that you need to offer voters a degree of reassurance because voters are quite small c conservative, even if they’re not Conservatives with a capital C and they’re concerned about the things...
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