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...Briony laughs when you sing along to the hold music. A man informs you that unfortunately the DLA number is separate to the PIP number, though not in all situations....
...But Koçeku, Bejo and their kin recall the stigma Highlanders faced during the 2000s, when young Albanians hankered after urban prosperity....
...The music is barely present as she sings, stark chords studded amid the space....
...April 26 to 28; further information and tickets here ‘Elektra’, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin sings the titular character in a concert version of Strauss’s opera, with Cornelius...
...“Some girls you marry, some you love,” he sings, which makes you wonder what on earth she sees in him. ★★★☆☆ To June 10, openairtheatre.com...
...She says that arranging is not at all dissimilar to working with fresh flowers but that the texture, shapes and tones of dried material are really what makes them sing....
...“Life on Earth is long”, she sings; but then, “leaving it beyond repair”....
...There are babysitters, childminders, au pairs, nannies....
...I would love her to sing “Mississippi Goddam”. She is truly a genius. A glass of champagne is needed straight away....
...Only time will tell if Tiger Global and kin post the performance numbers to justify the strategy....
...We’d sing Dame Vera Lynn songs and hug all those neighbours we’d glimpsed during the weekly NHS clap. It didn’t quite pan out like that, of course....
...“Oh young thing”, she sings, “You cannot be tamed in this life” — the last word dragged out over several notes....
...“Belekou” (a neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince) paints a picture of gangs preying on the citizenry, the opening guitar and bass lines prowling and sinister, Benjamin singing as if lurking in the shadows....
...They have taught me how to make fail-safe cheese soufflés, blackcurrant ice cream and some very subtle casseroles, none of which is renard au vin blanc....
...Lakou Mizik are a Port-au-Prince collective, who came together after the Haitian earthquake of 2010 as a musical relief effort and now make a joyous combination of Haitian music of all genres....
...Six of the eight tracks are from Carry Your Kin and Let The Cards Fall, two new compositions....
...“It is a sweet country”, sings Benjamin. “You cannot be more authentic than the people there.”...
...I’d describe, if you’d indulge me and I had another 400 words, exemplary tournedos Rossini and a wholly peng tarte au citron . . . but there’s the very point; I don’t have to, do I?...
...“Picking through a labyrinth of roads that have no signs”, sings Muholland on “Labyrinth”, “never knowing what you’re leaving or what you’re going to find.”...
...Growing up in England with working parents, I was raised by a stream of New Zealand, Filipino and German au pairs, so I do not have a childhood-Cleo-of-my-heart....
...Laveaux travelled outside Port-au-Prince to Gonaïves, Cap Haitien, and Jacmel, to research the songs of the late human-rights activist and musician Martha Jean-Claude....
...“I don’t sing any more, they only criticise,” sighs Luisa Mandelli....
...Henri Selmer, 18 Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 75011 Paris (+331-4923 8740; selmer.fr). Un Million de Musiques, 7 Rue de Montreuil, 94300 Vincennes (+331-4328 6320)...
...Malaysian authorities have insisted on conducting an investigation, and say the body must be handed to Kim’s next-of-kin....
..., and this year’s follow-up, Blood, she moved from the dreamy crooner of “Au Cinéma” to neo-soul romantic lead in “Unstoppable”....
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