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...What’s the name of August Wilhelmj’s 1871 arrangement of the second movement of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major? What’s the world’s oldest currency that’s still in use?...
...With a wry smile, he wonders if that’s a blessing: “He’d want to take over the stage, and get pissed off if he didn’t get top billing.”...
...“I guess I’d had this view of [the plays] that Hal was involved in some japes,” says Icke. “It was slightly wild and they were nicking traffic cones or whatever....
...Until 10 December, bathchristmasmarket.co.uk Les Lumières de Noël, Montbéliard As an alternative to Alsace’s well known Christkindelsmärik in Strasbourg, head to Montbéliard for its Lumières de Noël festivities...
...“I was furious at the time because I’d failed my school [exams],” he said. Aiwanger had already sparked controversy with speeches that critics said smacked of Trump-style populism....
...Three other major works — Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 and Liszt’s mighty Piano Sonata in B Minor and Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, Op 1 — provide the staging posts....
...The excellent, quick-changing cast do some conjuring of their own: you’d swear there were more than five of them. But what really makes it is an emotional ambush....
...I think I’d have loved Jackie....
...Hermès proves that basil can be a star ingredient in Eau de Basilic, while Sisley’s L’Eau Rêvée D’Hubert, another garden-inspired new release, uses shiso and mint....
...Job moves Skadden has hired Noel Hughes as a high-yield partner on its leveraged finance team. He joins in London from Linklaters....
...One avid collector, London interior designer Hubert Zandberg, has such a penchant for ornaments he has had to arrange for extra dedicated storage....
...The recommended accompaniment is a house vin d’orange (like a negroni, but less aggressive)....
...“I do think that the smaller private boutiques are certainly in a position where they’d be considering selling themselves.”...
...A trip to Paris, aged 20, led to a fortuitous encounter with Hubert de Givenchy, nephew of the celebrated fashion designer, who shares the same name....
...Ready for plopping into a delicious Reverend Hubert upscale summer cup cocktail....
...Celebrated tax exiles range from playwright Noël Coward to actors Sean Connery and Gérard Depardieu....
...coincided with a passage through Glasgow; tux-clad on the observation car’s open-air platform, I watched industrial units — Roofing, Packaging Solutions, Colour Printing — and graffitied cuttings go by, like Noël...
...It seemed to be Italy’s own riposte to Noël Coward’s popular song, about how only “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”....
...That’d miss the point. Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...And Harrison notes the abuse of Dingley on social media and in radio phone-ins after her appointment: “I felt we’d stepped a little bit back into the 1970s.”...
...When we went to Venice and visited the famous glassmaker SALIR, [son of the founder] Mario d’Alpaos, who was in his 80s, took a picture with me to thank me for what Oncle Hubert had done for him.”...
...HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn has consistently denied that there’s any indication that the insurer-turned-activist has political motivations....
...“Right now I’d rather eat.”...
...He’s modelling his look on his style icon, that other busy businessman George Clooney from One Fine Day, but he’d never tell his colleagues that because they’d start rubbing their puffers at him in mockery...
...And finally I was in Paris last week and the talk of the town was the upcoming sale at Christie’s of Hubert de Givenchy’s exceptional collection of works of art from his last two residences, the Hôtel d...
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