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...“There remains some hardware headwinds, which may give us a read on the overall consumer right now,” said David Wagner, portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors....
...That former footballer happened to be Aly Wagner, an American soccer legend who had long been campaigning to bring a pro women’s club to the California peninsula....
...This is a supple performance that is noticeably more text-based than most (compare the rich, deeply grounded stream of sound from a singer like Jessye Norman)....
...Wagner’s four-and-a-half-hour opera has been reduced to one hour, which some will find a mercy....
...The vocal lines are less telling, declamation rather than Wagner’s “endless melody”....
...There is then a brief back and forth about prawns and lobsters of times past, and a reminder on the side from Tóibín to me about how the name nods to Wexford’s distinctive Norman heritage....
...Norman might sing Wagner with young Simon on piano, but there were no parties. “Entertaining finished in 1939, anyway”, says Towneley....
...Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty, by Norman M Naimark, Belknap Press, RRP$29.95/£23.95 Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet Union and mid-20th-century...
...After a season dominated so far by cycles of the Ring, here is a pleasing, but unexceptional Wagner-style pendant. ★★★☆☆ To December 29, roh.org.uk...
...I’d asked him about the deaths of John Updike and Norman Mailer. “How does it make me feel, all these fellows dying? Very sad....
...Norman Ohler’s ‘Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich’ is published by Penguin...
...Germany is a country that is steeped and entrenched in the blood of the classical music tradition, which embraces the opera, particularly Wagner....
...He does not use computers (“too much hassle”) and while drawing listens to Wagner: “gentle, grand, evocative of space — beautiful passages of music that repeat and transform....
...Only Daniel Norman’s Laca strikes the right balance, as nuanced in his acting as he is in his singing....
...Native Lands, by Norman Davies, Allen Lane, RRP£30 The author of The Isles (1999) tackles the subject of migration in settings ranging from Tasmania to Texas....
...And yet it was with Wagner — and with characteristic gusto — that Norman launched her professional career....
...Sir, I enjoyed reading your interview with Jessye Norman (Lunch with the FT, April 18)....
...Two of the judges (Ms Churchwell and Ms Wagner) are American. The shortlist will be announced on September 9 and the prize awarded at a dinner on October 14....
...Shakespeare in Love, Noël Coward Theatre, London Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s droll faux-history made a popular 1998 film but seems even more at home on the stage, deftly adapted by playwright Lee Hall...
...Ms Miller was proud of the fact that Norman Foster’s architectural practice is doing well in Hong Kong....
...THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST by Norman MailerLittle, Brown ₤17.99, 496 pages FT bookshop price: ₤14.39 The best place from which to approach Norman Mailer’s new novel might be the end, with the bibliography...
...Compared with the generation whose careers lit up the postwar world of opera (Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle), there are precious few of equal standing now...
...She fell in love, we learn, with her publisher Norman Warne (Ewan McGregor). But Warne had an illness, which provides the film with its Kleenex climax....
...World war one: A Short History By Norman Stone Allen Lane £16.99, 200 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Only a virtuoso could, in the space of a long essay, cover the fighting on all its fronts and still...
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