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...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Someone quotes a Leonard Cohen song. “There is a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.” As a shopkeeper comments of the golden repair work on a broken bowl: “What lovely cracks.”...
...As a young man Cohen discovered the work of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, and also learned to play flamenco guitar....
...A respected poet and novelist, he was influenced by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. His dark lyrics earned him the nickname ‘the high priest of pathos’....
...The hippies’ favourite jam band, the Grateful Dead, turned it into a platform for Jerry Garcia’s rueful guitar soloing on the 1971 live album known as Skull & Roses....
...His taste for Leonard Cohen and Anton Chekhov....
...Auden and the novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes as much as political economic theory) it felt fitting that he would rest among writers and campaigners he either did hang out with in his...
...In “The Drunkard’s Walk”, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow’s book about how people misunderstand the amount of randomness in their lives, there’s a short but fascinating passage discussing Bill Miller’...
...’s phrase-making (“Leonard turned to lawyers for advice and to women for help”)....
...A leveraged buyout transaction in which a special purpose acquisition vehicle formed by TPG Capital LP and Leonard Green & Partners LP, agreed to acquire the entire share capital of J Crew Group Inc, a New...
...Tom Cox is the author of the golf books ‘Nice Jumper’ and ‘Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia’ pursuits@ft.com ………………….....
...Early on, they led in all foursomes matches, only to slip back, and although Leonard and Mahan quickly established a strong grip in their fourball with the Spaniards Garcia and Miguel Angel Jimenez, the...
...He got it so badly wrong that, in fact, six-over was the score returned by the eventual winner, Paul Lawrie, after a play-off with Jean Van de Velde and Justin Leonard....
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