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...To mark the anniversary, the national parliament holds open door days every year....
...Many of these images are drawn from authorship: “red caterpillars resembling editor’s marks on a manuscript”; “his mind is making the pointless scribbles of a pen that has run out of ink.”...
...“Toby Rice and others are known for creating this kind of false reality that people want to cling to,” said Mary Finley-Brook, an environment professor at the University of Richmond....
...The one who really lifted the performance was bass Gerald Finley, singing with a generous depth of emotion that made the King of Scotland for once a linchpin of the opera....
...Mark Finley and Paul Kolbe of Rice University’s Baker Institute in Texas say poorer economies are unlikely to join the net-zero bandwagon with fervour given their limited economic and political choices....
...Finley, eloquent as ever, sang a gritty group of songs on animal themes by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Their encore, the favourite duet from Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles, did not go well....
...His adversary is the seven-sided Dionysiac nemesis played here with impressive versatility by Gerald Finley....
...standing below the high-water mark....
...Balanchine seemed to turn to story only when he wanted to leave a mark on a work that either had shaped him in his youth or was infusing his current endeavours....
...At the head of the cast Gerald Finley makes a wonderfully inspiring and stylish William Tell....
...As an outpouring of hedonist excess, though, Rautavaara’s song cycle hits the mark. On either side of it Finley offered Schubert’s Schwanengesang, split in two....
...The central item – the premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze, a co-commission by the BBC, the Royal Philharmonic Society and the New York Philharmonic – worked less well....
...Last year at the event Karen Finley painted works inspired by “sext messages” and Joe Zane exhibited a taxidermy chihuahua dressed as a princess....
...Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg demonstrate the billions that can be made in jeans and T-shirts....
...There’s a part for her lawyer-cum-lover Stern (Gerald Finley) that never quite takes off....
...In the wake of his early Mozart triumphs at home and abroad came high-profile parts in operas by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Debussy and Britten, as well as roles written for him by Mark-Anthony Turnage (football...
...They range from roles Finley has created – Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Doctor Atomic and Harry in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie – to Wolfram’s Act 3 aria from Tannhäuser and the Toreador’s Song...
...On Palm Sunday, the Rundfunkchor Berlin sing Bach’s St Matthew Passion; soloists include British tenor Mark Padmore....
...The part of Grimes was sung by an Australian, the magnificent Stuart Skelton; the distinguished Canadian-born baritone Gerald Finley sang the part of the very English Captain Balstrode....
...Cyril Finley, giving his age as 72½, said he had been visited by an installer. “I do not see any problem,” he said....
...The outstanding performer, at least in vocal terms, is Gerald Finley as Golaud....
...In other core repertoire we are impeccably served by Mark Elder’s Strauss and Elgar albums (Halle), Vladimir Jurowski’s Rakhmaninov (London Philharmonic) and Mariss Jansons’s Ein Heldenleben and Petrushka...
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