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...An estimated 20mn people in the UK recently had a chance to see the Williams double act when he appeared as both performer and composer at the coronation of King Charles III....
...Now the pair share a disc courtesy of The King’s Singers and instrumental ensemble Fretwork. The two discs are so different that one really wants both....
...That the restoration was possible at all is testament to the masons who built the original four-storey tower sometime around 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie, a gentleman of the bedchamber to Scotland’s King James...
...Jameson was paired with Roderick Williams, and in the video they sing together, Williams in operatic flow, Jameson with power and purpose....
...In his King’s Speech of 1828, George IV went so far as to call Navarino “the untoward event”. Still, the die was cast....
...Roderick Jones, founder of security group Concentric and former detective with the UK’s Special Branch police, focused on countering domestic and international extremists, says that combating QAnon is doubly...
...Roderick Smith, the Australian chairman of British Lithium, says domestic lithium supply could help make the UK a more attractive place for battery makers to build factories — which is key to ensuring electric...
...First-rate voices are onboard, including Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Jeremy Budd, Roderick Williams and Ashley Riches....
...Roderick Floud, formerly head of Gresham College in London, thinks this is the great unasked question, up there with our reticence about how much we are each paid....
...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Roderick Beaton’s impressive book sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context of recurrent...
...Beaton was also, until last year, professor of modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and literature at King’s College, London....
...It was a step too far: though the orchestral writing was vivid, the famous words seemed to lose their expressive power when set to music, however nobly they were intoned by baritone Roderick Williams....
...The writer, a former permanent secretary to the Treasury, is visiting professor at King’s College London Letters in response to this article: Productivity rise unlikely to reach 2% soon / From Roderick...
...John Sunyer is commissioning editor of FT Life & Arts Illustration by Roderick Mills...
...The combination of Mr King’s legal contacts and Mr McDowell’s local knowledge catapulted the business....
...When King James I gifted the site to the Middle and Inner Temple Inns in 1608, he charged them with the upkeep of Temple Church, which had been consecrated by the order of the Knights Templar in 1185, and...
...Of the large cast, though, only King Priam has the potential to touch the emotions, and Roderick Earle rose impressively to the challenge....
...And yes, he may be diversifying the Proms into rock and gospel, but classical is still king, generating a predominantly middle-aged, middle-class audience that wants to be stretched....
...To preserve stability, traditional states used to insist on a speedy succession: “The king is dead; long live the king.”...
...This is not to detract from the fluency of Julia Somerville’s reading or the eloquence of Roderick Williams’s singing....
...The tragedy of King Lear casts a long and dark shadow....
...Some say they were descended from Irish raiders, notably the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages, king of Ireland from 379 to 405AD....
...When Stephen King or Hilary Mantel recognise evil and write about it – let alone Edgar Allan Poe or Arthur Machen – they believe in it, and tread a dangerous edge between the need to write and the power...
...They will include Baroness Usha Prashar, chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission; Sir Roderick Lyne, former UK ambassador to Moscow; Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King’s College...
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