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...There is a rather gruff Marcello from Daniel Scofield, a classily sung Schaunard from Luthando Qave, and an effective Colline with a recognisably Slavic tone from Ivo Stanchev....
...Scofield, Stephens (Robert) and McKellen on the stage are stamped on my mind, especially Scofield’s metallic growl and despair-sculpted face for Peter Brook (though not, oddly, in his flat 1971 film version...
...The programme begins with the waltz “She Was Young”, recently recorded by Swallow as a setting for a work by Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley....
...Giotto and His Works in Padua , by John Ruskin, edited by Robert Hewison, David Zwirner Books, RRP£8.95 A highbrow pocket book: Ruskin’s little-known, fiery text on Giotto as founder of modern art is republished...
...He is proud of a letter from Paul Scofield (“my hero”), to whom he had sent some of his mother’s correspondence. “He became completely enamoured with her,” says Courtenay....
...All anyone really knows about him now is that he was a good egg, put God before his king and bore a striking resemblance to Paul Scofield. But this is not the real issue....
...No such problem with headliner Robert Glasper, Blue Note’s latest rising star, who buffs up the piano trio legacy with a strong pulse and elliptic hip-hop beats....
...A friend of mine was once a caretaker for an old farmhouse in Vermont that had once been the home of poet Robert Frost....
...Once it was new plays by new playwrights that attracted the acting stars of the day: Nicol Williamson in Osborne’s Inadmissible Evidence, Paul Scofield in Christopher Hampton’s Savages, Alec Guinness in...
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