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...at Brook Street: Messiah (a new display explores its composition) and “Zadok the Priest”, commissioned for George II’s coronation and performed at every coronation since, including that of King Charles III...
...Though scholars debate whether or not it is the same place, Ithaca features in Homer’s Odyssey, being the island to which Odysseus finally returns home at the end of his 10-year journey back from the Trojan...
...A Roman mosaic depicting scenes from Homer’s Iliad has been unearthed in a farmer’s field in the English county of Rutland, in what archaeologists described as the most “exciting” mosaic discovery in the...
...Streaks of lush green surround a pool of deep blue sea, palm-fringed, in Hurvin Anderson’s “Maracas III”....
...A lot of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and such like. A lot of blues. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be?...
...“I’m cautiously optimistic that the drug will show some effect,” says James Hendrix of the Alzheimer’s Association. “But the trial is only part of the story....
...We end up on the wooded coastline around Deià, a chichi town overrun in the summer with wealthy second-homers....
...With a profound sense of place, it traces the lives of three generations through change — the arrival of electricity, and later, second homers — and continuity....
...Death Death III (Drag City)...
...For SS15 Tommy took a trip, jettisoning his preppier tendencies to showcase star-spangled chiffon, lurex-spun stripy suiting, patchwork denim, fun fluffy faux-fur, marching-band jackets and Hendrix-style...
...In Homer’s Iliad, blacksmith-god Haphaestus manufactures 20 servants mounted on wheels to serve the gods on Mount Olympus....
...All this and much more – Man Ray photographing both writers; Duchamp experimenting with his “Large Glass”; a girl, maybe Joyce’s/Homer’s Nausicaa, watching herself being watched in a mirror; the impenetrable...
...Alto saxophonist Ed Jackson was fluent and focused and guitarist Darryl McAllister had an exhilarating control of post-Hendrix blues....
...This vast series is the first to be installed, in the RA’s intimidating Gallery III, and when I arrive Hockney is standing alone contemplating it....
...Sea Eagle of Shian III is a 21m ocean-going sailing cruiser....
...with capital letters – is as a grand, defiantly self-important rock record built on epic, gracefully potty progressive rock scale, perhaps to compete with Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz, as well as Homer...
...Elegiac music – Mozart’s Requiem, Kisangani chant, Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” – is punctuated by Serge Kakudji’s unearthly countertenor....
...Instead, he reread Homer’s Odyssey and used that as inspiration. What was the novel? 23....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
...The monarch with whom Hampton Court is perhaps most associated, however, is William III – William of Orange – who remodelled the palace in the 1690s....
...the soldiers resemble depictions of those of the 20th century’s World Wars, there are others when the characters seem to be involved in mythic episodes that resemble Malory’s Arthurian legends or even Homer...
...“Before him, in Homer for instance, there were heroes and villains on both sides.”...
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