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...There was birdsong, the sound of sheep bells, distant children’s voices, the high ringing note of cicadas. Dogs barked, farmyards away. I was alone with the ancient world....
...The bell sleeves and flared shorts of Victoria Bartlett’s frumpy organza playsuits blur the lines of Secret Things but the fit-and-flare frocks for Everyone Keeps Me by veteran Covent Garden costume chief...
...“His suits are so slick, his hair is slicked back, and he has all the accoutrements: the cufflinks, collar bars — he’s just fully kitted out with all the bells and whistles,” says Antoinette....
...By ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange — which Piper Sandler’s Rich Repetto did on Thursday....
...The town was silent, apart from the ringing of church bells. Posters of Francesco were pasted on closed shutters and banners hung across the streets with the words “Ciao Ciccio”....
...Along with an armoury of percussion, Neuwirth adds electric guitar and two synthesisers that play everything from microtones to the bells from Wagner’s Parsifal....
...The programme begins with wraithlike layers of electronica made more malevolent by the disjointed resonance of a funeral bell....
...Here and there are villages, a few dozen lichened cotto roofs clustered around brick bell towers that have sounded their peals since long before Italy itself existed, and when this was the hinterland of...
...The gloomy Nico Muhly score for intermittent bells and electric viola da gamba (played gorgeously by Liam Byrne on a platform upstage) was similarly even-toned....
...“These elections will be a warning bell for us,” said one Five Star insider, who declined to be named. In an interview, Mr Pirondini was upbeat....
...Despite the Royal Albert Hall’s survey results, there has never been any stigma about boys playing violin, viola or cello, according to Ms Wallace....
...Spells for soprano (Alison Bell), chorus and orchestra showed how Bennett could cast a spectral atmosphere with the best of them....
...‘Hamlet’, Glyndebourne festival, June 11 — July 6 2017 Photograph: Ina Shoenenburg...
...Fabrizio Viola, Monte dei Paschi’s chief executive, on Wednesday sought to calm fears that depositors were withdrawing their funds....
...Armenian composer Vache Sharafyan’s Surgite Gloriae, a concerto for viola, duduk, baritone, boy soprano, horn, bells and string orchestra, is a more outspoken work in every sense....
...Epitaphs, with Dean (formerly of the Berlin Philharmonic) as extra viola, offers evocative vignettes of five lost friends....
...seriousness, it places her literary exploration of a new fragmented, shifting, unfixed portraiture in the context of the fluid, subjective depictions attempted by painters in her circle: her sister Vanessa Bell...
...The cast’s physical skill is delightful and the production, directed by Mark Bell, builds to a delirious climax....
...We do not hear Tang dynasty “frost-bells”, or even much ringing, in this quartet for piano, clarinet, violin and viola, but the sounds are delicate and haunting – plucked piano strings, eerie violin harmonics...
...In Anesti (the title means “Risen”), ancient Greek texts meet a modern compositional idiom, the bells of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre (recorded on the composer’s iPhone) encountering technological...
...Accompanied by neat text explaining familial characteristics from Amaryllis to Viola....
...For all its bells and whistles, the goals of The Third Pixel were relatively modest....
...commanded the attention in the rendering by ex-Arditti Quartet stalwart Graeme Jennings, the superb San Francisco Symphony clarinettist Carey Bell and veteran percussionist William Winant....
...Ascending impressionist piano introduced viola plunkings, a beautiful violin melody and Spanish-tinged harmonies....
...The title track, a press-gang ballad, starts with unaccompanied singing and builds into a climax of strings and bells, then gives way to a comic two-step with its rhythm pattered out on clogs....
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