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...In the morning John Butt and his Dunedin Consort travelled from Edinburgh to perform Mozart’s C Minor Mass, as finished by Clemens Kemme, and some Bach family extras....
...is whether the changes to the abstraction licences will be enough to restore levels of water in sensitive rivers, like England’s precious chalk streams, and the aquifers that they depend upon,” says Jim Hall...
...The share of property sales in Barcelona to overseas purchasers hit a record 22 per cent of the market in the final quarter of 2022, the latest data set available, according to Barcelona City Hall....
...Their 50th anniversary concert will be celebrated at Middle Temple Hall, London, in November next year. ★★★★★ wigmore-hall.org.uk; sjss.org.uk...
...Butt is an authority in this work and it showed....
...Houghton Festival, Houghton Hall, NorfolkThe Palladian mansion hosts the fourth edition of its dance music festival....
...Above all, Butt brings a joyous energy to Messiah. After a difficult year in which Wigmore Hall has been top of the class in keeping music live, this felt a good way to celebrate....
...They sat in high-back (very high-back) office chairs which were the butt of many jokes at the tournament....
...High-end buyers are also finding some opportunities, says Mohammad Butt of Lucas Fox, who recently made a sale using videoconferencingtechnology to an overseas buyer who paid €200,000 less than its €2.9m...
...But as an investment opportunity, this is what Warren Buffett would call a cigar butt with a few last puffs.” Hall’s scepticism is not a huge surprise....
...From the dreamlike decay of Wilton’s Music Hall and the blowsy red velvet and gilt drama of the Hackney Empire to the municipal heft of the Ironmonger Row Baths, Ronalds has been responsible for sensitive...
...The hall, with its elegant rooms, tall ceilings and open fires, was the perfect setting....
...A glass bell in the shared entrance hall brings them together. “Any time Viv comes in she rings the bell,” says Danielle. “If I’m the kitchen, I’ll shout, ‘Come in!’....
...Usually, they were willing protagonists, playing up to the camera: posing on skis in the living room, tottering on stilts down the hall....
...Probably yes, so let us take away the best that this production has to offer and then return it to the concert-hall. ★★★★☆ To December 7, eno.org...
...“Fag Butts in the Fire Bucket” has a title that perfectly evokes the rowdy back-room-of-a-pub ethos of a Skint Records release from 20 years ago....
...They just saw a disheveled guy, butt crack out, squinting from cigarette smoke in his glass eye. He was a cantankerous old shit, who’d say anything to shock and provoke and the town loved him for it.”...
...She wrote the lyrics to “They Come at Night”, about the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, the night it occurred. “I was so upset and shocked....
...Black lambs bleat and butt their mother’s udders mercilessly for milk — the only sound. London, 60 miles away, and all the world’s hectic madness seem unimaginably distant. My own word is “sanctuary”....
...When Martin Luther set the Reformation in motion, his aim was to bring church services closer to the people, so handing out song-sheets and getting the Royal Albert Hall audience to join in some of the chorales...
...A Nidderdale notebook Where to stay: Bewerley Hall Farm (bewerleyhallfarm.co.uk; double rooms from £65) is a homely and welcoming bed and breakfast, about 10 mins walk from Pateley Bridge....
...I think the state should butt out,” he says, his guard still up. “I’m not as easily pigeonholed as people would like.”...
...The capacity of the main hall at Kings Place is just over half that and the forces that Butt brought with him for this performance — a choir of 12 and orchestra of 15 plus himself at the harpsichord — fitted...
...Lady Margaret Hall, whose façade used to look like a prison to me, has had vast sums spent on it and in the late afternoon sun looked borderline handsome....
...“I have kept the yoga going in my local village in classes at the school hall on Tuesday and Thursday,” he says....
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