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...To June 18, musikfestspiele.com Glyndebourne, UK The opening production, Mariame Clément’s new Don Giovanni, might have gained mixed reviews, but the rest of this year’s line-up looks sharp — a fresh production...
...Beyoncé caused a stir last year when she Instagrammed a photo of herself in front of a work by desert artist Yukultji Napangati (the artwork in question was a gift from Jay-Z)....
...Or Armand de Brignac, the champagne brand better known as the Ace Of Spades, that first began selling in 2006 but saw an uptick in consumer interest when Jay-Z – who first promoted the gold bottle in a 2006...
...Jay Powell testifies to Senate committee The Federal Reserve chair is to give a second day of testimony on Capitol Hill....
...Clement Beaune, French European affairs minister, said France’s evacuation operation would end “soon”. More on Afghanistan: Edward Luce: This is potentially Joe Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment....
...Clement Jackson was a leathery Afrikaner, a former police colonel....
...Set (Jay Gower Taylor) and costumes (Linda Chow) and score (Owen Belton) evoke the hive world, and Pite explores — brilliantly — the hive rituals and atmosphere....
...To quote Jim Paulsen of the Leuthold Group: "We just have no read on Jay Powell. This is the first chance many of us have had to hear him....
...which evokes the sense of a murmuration of starlings and the lines and urgencies of refugees pouring across a continent — is set to part of Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, in an austere nowhere by Jay...
...Piazzolla Caldera is a dance-work by Paul Taylor and it forms the heart of the second programme offered by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in its London season — with a regional tour to follow....
...The FT’s Clement Crisp deemed her latest work, Betroffenheit, which explored grief, “choreographically penetrating and, frankly, emotionally harrowing”....
...Her eight-foot “Fight in an Elevator”, based on CCTV of Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles attacking Jay Z in a Manhattan hotel lift in 2014, is the star new work....
...The design by Jay Gower Taylor suggests a location bleak and threatening....
...A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: How (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About Food is Wrong, by Jay Rayner, William Collins, RRP£12.99, 288 pages Rayner’s latest displays a similar depth of research...
...With its golden jubilee already celebrated, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre – to give its full title – is a much-loved and much-lauded ensemble, and vastly popular....
...Hiccup Horrendous Haddock is on the cusp of manhood and also of realising his great destiny – if, that is, he can yet again thwart his scheming arch-enemy, Alvin the Treacherous....
...It involves a sort-of-conversation between Jay Gilligan (who makes clubs, balls, do his dazzling will) and the drummer (Erik Nilsson, who has rhythmic genius, responding dazzlingly)....
...“I was at a dinner party at Clement Freud’s [the broadcaster and former Liberal MP who died in April]. Judy Steele was there, and went for me. I felt great.” Why?...
...On view were two misbegotten moments: something sanctimonious and dated from Alvin Ailey, and an unspeakable event by the Czech dance-maker Petr Zuska, in which a couple did everything possible to themselves...
...What led to the Democrats cancelling a television debate between presidential candidates and saw Sean Penn, Holly Hunter and Jay Leno appear in a series of dialogue-free short films? 34....
...(Radio 4, another synonym for highbrow culture, is also getting in on the Jay-Z franchise, with money guru Alvin Hall quizzing the “president of hip-hop” on December 2.)...
...Aires Leo Gallagher, McLean VA Gautam, Singapore Rahul Goel Gerardo Gruz-Vasconcelos Sumit Gupta, India Rajesh Handa, Chandigarh, India Dudley Holley, UK Danny Hu, New York Takashi Ito, Tokyo Jay...
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