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...Now recognised as an audacious masterpiece, it was the inspiration for The Second Woman — the 24-hour-epic delivered by Ruth Wilson last year — and it drives this similarly ambitious and conceptually complex...
...John Wilson conducts showpiece performances of Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Lennox Berkeley’s Serenade for Strings and Arthur Bliss’s Music for Strings that are top of the class...
...For his new recording with the recently reconstituted Sinfonia of London, conductor John Wilson has eschewed these two perennial classics....
...The wine list by Zeren Wilson is also very cool....
...But the US trio — Dave “Avey Tare” Portner, Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox and Brian “Geologist” Weitz — can’t resist adding their customary layers of acoustic decoration....
...Instead they fall into a holding pattern of repetition, Lennox chanting banal refrains with the singsong wonderment of a modern Brian Wilson; an act of homage that becomes tasteless when he repeatedly choruses...
...Ann Lennox, for services to Oxfam. Victor Leverett, business development director, Finmeccanica UK. Richard Longthorp, chairman, Agri-Skills Strategy Group. John Lynch, broadcaster....
...“I don’t think the reasons for commissioning have changed through the centuries,” says Kerr Wilson....
...* Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko is "happy to go" with a rematch against Lennox Lewis after the former world heavyweight champion reportedly declared himself ready for a return to the ring....
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