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...(No offence to Tchaikovsky, but I’m an aficionado of Schubert’s piano pieces; Natali, a talented pianist, prefers Chopin.) At Code Red DC, the theme is the Prohibition era....
...included three novelties by women composers, the Schumann-inspired overture to the opera Jery und Bätely (1873) by Ingeborg Bronsart, the atmospheric tone-poem Trencrom (1978) by Cornish composer Judith Margaret...
...He plays piano at a glacial pace, backed by an electronic shimmer. Rhythm is provided by the sound of him breathing in and out....
...Cold-weather imbibing is better in the basement, at Hijos de Tomás, Thompson’s lively piano bar and speakeasy....
...“Bartender” was sparsely dreamy, “Arcadia” gorgeously woozy, Del Rey’s voice ringing out over piano backing....
...Best known for exploring the roots and strands of Puerto Rican music, recent releases include two volumes of El Arte Del Bolero, a warm-hearted duet with pianist Luis Perdomo, and Law Years, an original...
...and take part in creative workshops at this annual garden festival in the Renzo Piano-designed music complex....
...work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman....
...Some songs drift by in a reverie, gravely soundtracked by guitar and piano. Others twist into unpredictable shapes with surprising orchestrations and electronic beats....
...But this year’s Salone del Mobile, which takes place from April 16 to 21 in Milan, will include “Interiors by David Lynch: A Thinking Room”, which is in fact two rooms to account for the 300,000 visitors...
...The 39-suite Palazzo Roma, which opens on four floors of an aristocratic palace on the Via del Corso, is one such place....
...The 2024 line-up includes Metallica (May 29), Lana del Rey (June 4), Green Day and Doja Cat (both June 16)....
...First, though, he learned the piano, moving onto the guitar around the age of 14 “when I stumbled upon my grandfather’s instrument tucked away in an old cupboard, in his Cairo flat”....
...The Wine Society Ch Citran 2016 Haut-Médoc (13.5%)Very respectable and youthful claret in a useful double size that will still be drinking well next Christmas.£43.50 a magnum The Wine Society Dominio del...
...What do the following have in common — Judy Garland, Margaret Thatcher, Freddie Mercury and Stephen Hawking?...
...The piano is a special theme, and leading exponents including Emanuel Ax, Louis Lortie, Hélène Grimaud and rising star Alexandra Dovgan will be in town....
...When I won an Oscar in 2005 [for the song “Al Otro Lado del Río” from The Motorcycle Diaries], I had the chance to go the easy way; to move to the States and start a career with an award that would have...
...Shelves of leather-bound books, a piano and comfy sofas and rugs in the reception-salon area give the sense that you’re a guest in a wealthy friend’s private home....
...Overall, the UK equity market roughly doubled in the five years after Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979, while the cost of living rose by around 70 per cent....
...Located up a flight of stairs at the back of the foyer of one of the Palazzi dei Rolli, it spreads across hundreds of square metres of the piano nobile....
...Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, translated by Philip Gabriel (Transworld Publishers) At an international piano competition, held annually in a small coastal town near Tokyo, four musically gifted...
...Underwater is Einaudi’s first solo piano record in two decades....
...The cult of the Canyon has its pantheon of gods, such as Joni Mitchell and Harry Nilsson, and its high priests, such as Lana Del Rey and Father John Misty....
...A lullaby of St Anne, “Ninna Nanna di Sant’Anna del ‘700’”, zips along with rockabilly vigour driven by Mario Monterosso’s twanging guitar....
...venture-capital fund focused on diverse arts-related causes including the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, the Museum of Arts + Design and more recently the clean-energy Arco del...
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