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...Thea Musgrave’s 1977 opera, Mary, Queen of Scots, focuses on her journey to self-determination and its disastrous outcome....
...Even so, major works, such as her operas Mary, Queen of Scots and A Christmas Carol, date from this period. Musgrave has always been ahead of her time....
...None packs in more of them than the big seller from Phaidon Press, The Gardener’s Garden, by Madison Cox, Ruth Chivers and Dr Toby Musgrave who at present lives in Denmark and looks after a garden of a quarter...
...(His Mary, Queen of Scots boasted a score by Thea Musgrave.) Nothing of his work, such being the nature of Scottish Ballet’s ingratitude and uncertain taste, remains in repertory....
...Ballets by Darrell and by Walter Gore (who was a Scot) and a superb score by Thea Musgrave for Mary Queen of Scots were a fine reflection of national identity....
...Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary By Miri Rubin Penguin, £30 Jewish girl makes good or, rather, God in a highly original take on the veneration of Mary over 2,000 years....
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