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...He looked like Moses in the wilderness years, bald, plump, with a long straggling beard and a messianic gleam in his eyes. We chatted....
...From the King’s Highway, Moses first glimpsed the Promised Land, while Lawrence of Arabia followed the road towards Aqaba and fame....
...Esa-Pekka Salonen tailors a version of Mahler to the circumstances, which are light-years away from the comfort of a concert hall....
...It’s the sort of thing they should cast in solid gold so we can dance around it until Moses comes back down the mountain to put us on a diet. There is dessert, of course....
...He remained at the same address for the rest of his life, though in 1932 he and his wife Jo moved to a larger apartment across the hall....
...Cadogan Hall began its 10-day London Jazz Festival programme with a thrilling guitar-trio set from recent Blue Note signing Julian Lage....
...So, even though the coming year is sure to be unpredictable, in the spirit of optimism let’s forget the imminent threat of more closed theatres and concert halls, disregard the real possibility of shuttered...
...The company, which defines itself as a group of “dancer-illusionists”, was born under the creative direction of dancer and choreographer Moses Pendleton, whose mission is “using the human body to investigate...
...Cocker can talk for Sheffield; I once saw him at New York’s Radio City Music Hall in a concert that he admitted risked turning into a “spoken word” event....
...Landlady’s daughter, would-be actress and unrecognised genius Kate (Gemma Whelan, sparklingly intelligent), leaves inspirational books in the privy; Puritan doctor John Hall is on the prowl (he is played...
...Some of the cast of A Rainy Day in New York, including star Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall, publicly disowned their roles in the film....
...Over the week that follows, as I move from air-conditioned shopping malls to subway stations, I listen to these spaces become impromptu concert halls....
...An American with a Harvard MBA and a stint at McKinsey on his CV, he came over to Sotheby’s from the top slot at Madison Square Garden Company, a business with trophy assets including Radio City Music Hall...
...Ninety-three trips to the sports hall where I play badminton every Wednesday; 79 to the pub I’ve convinced myself we only occasionally repair to afterwards. It’s all there, in mesmeric detail....
...I found it at Jubilee Hall Antiques & Interiors, in the Cotswolds....
...I meet Amoo at the Black Cultural Archives, near Brixton Town Hall. He is just back from a trip to Berlin, where gentrification has advanced only in fits and starts....
...Yes, it’s worked for Dickens, and Hilary Mantel pulls it off with brio in Wolf Hall; but its use risks a sense of plateau, where every event described somehow carries the same import, the same weight....
...Madame Zero, by Sarah Hall, Faber, RRP£12.99 A new collection of short stories from the prizewinning English author....
...The challenge, as with all such imaginative counter-attacks, is the capacity to project the message beyond the halls of college and museum and into the street where it counts....
...Remember, City Hall’s barriers to entry are Lilliputian compared to national office. The voting system allows second preferences....
...To April 9, lyceum.org.uk, then at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, and Wilton’s Music Hall, London...
...Parreno’s “Anywhen” is this year’s Hyundai commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. One of the first solo shows I ever did was at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris in 2001....
...Moses Ojeda, principal of the Thomas Edison School in Jamaica, Queens, called it a game-changer, and reported a surge of interest in American history in classes where the teachers usually have a hard time...
...The social consequences that a top-down approach to urban design can have is epitomised by Robert Moses — 20th-century New York’s master builder....
...New York has had giant municipal leaders: the urban planner Robert Moses and Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and his science of government....
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