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...Conductor Robert Ames cued the orchestra’s entry at precisely the right time....
...A portrait of Leonello d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara, by Giovanni da Oriolo in 1447, delivers the north Italian ruler as the epitome of abstract power by showing him in profile in the manner of Roman emperors...
...Junius Paul, a funky, deep-toned foundation on bass guitar, was joined by trumpeter Marquis Hill and the amazing guitarist Matt Gold....
...Fellowes reaches back into a nearer past than the 1920s and recycles his Oscar-winning 2001 script for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, Hollywood invading an English country house....
...The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan (Knopf) A comprehensive history of America’s rise to global superpower, from would-be neutral player to self-appointed...
...They dined in an alcove off the dining room, which was dominated by a massive John Singer Sargent portrait of the 6th Marquis of Londonderry....
...Though de Castellane doesn’t mention a particular children’s book, Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses from 1885 immediately comes to mind. “The house sort of chose us, really....
...David Yazbek’s numbers have a chatty, cabaret-like feel to them that accommodates a range of vocal styles and blends well with Robert Horn’s book, which is full of salty one-liners....
...Soares gratefully name-checks the man responsible: “Yelle Bettencourt, he was a principal dancer with the Marquis de Cuevas, he worked with [George] Balanchine as well....
...It was good to see new young bass Michael Mofidian as Alcalde and, at the other extreme, veteran Robert Lloyd, 80 next year, as a wonderfully patrician Marquis of Calatrava. What is there not to like?...
...Graf York von Wartenburg Dechert LLP, Brussels/Frankfurt Tom McQuail Morrison & Foerster LLP, Brussels Marius Juonys Ellex Valiunas, Vilnius Peter Alexiadis Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Brussels Robert...
...This intention is underlined in the publicity material: the ICA has eschewed the many iconic images of Acker in circulation — including by Robert Mapplethorpe — in favour of grainy video stills....
...More than three centuries later, the Marquis of Montrose tried to seize Dunnottar after his victory at Fyvie, but failed and burnt the surrounding countryside instead....
...A single buyer is sought for the group, which includes the original draft of the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom and Napoleon’s love letters to Josephine....
...“The owner,” he noted, “is an Italian nobleman, Marquis Paolo Sersale, a strong handsome man of about 50 who dresses mostly like a beachcomber and works very hard.”...
...A strong ensemble includes Sophie Koch’s Mother Marie, Anna Prohaska’s Constance, Thomas Allen’s Marquis and Luis Gomes’s Chevalier, bravely replacing an indisposed Yann Beuron mid-performance....
...The onetime history student loves quotes from the past, and one of his favourites is from James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, who in the 17th century wrote a poetic defence of living dangerously that runs...
...By the time Nigel Farage settled into the Marquis of Granby for his first lunchtime pint on Friday, it was already clear that he and his UK Independence party had achieved something extraordinary....
...Successful to a point, anyway: four of the party died on the way down, including Lord Francis Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry’s brother....
...Robert Tornabell, a professor at Barcelona’s Esade business school, has known the Botíns for years....
...Robert Badinter, one of France’s top judicial figures, called the ex-IMF director’s treatment “a lynching, murder by media”....
...She brings out the pathos in the ongoing feud between naughty, attention-hogging Kate (Karine Plantadit) and the infatuated Hank (Keith Roberts) by treating us to Roberts’ elegant lyricism....
...Robert Hersov, former vice-chairman of NetJets Europe, is to chair a newly formed advisory board at VistaJet, which has become one of the world’s fastest-growing private aviation companies since it was founded...
...Robert Putnam, one of his successors at Harvard University, came to an even gloomier diagnosis about the collapse of community in Bowling Alone....
...Sophy Roberts is the FT’s hotel review columnist and editor at large of Departures magazine...
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