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ReviewTheatre
Oklahoma! is stunningly reimagined at the Young Vic — plus more London theatre reviews
...Wallace’s wonderful, spirited Ado Annie is well matched by James Davis, very funny as her none-too-bright fiancé Will, and by his commitment-phobic rival (Stavros Demetraki)....
May 12, 2022
InterviewTheatre
Satchmo meets Shakespeare: the great, lost jazz-age musical
...Then in 1938 Rodgers and Hart did The Boys from Syracuse, based on The Comedy of Errors: it ran for 235 performances and was a huge hit.”...
January 8, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewMusic
Wall-to-wall hits with Nile Rodgers & Chic at the O2 Arena, London
...Rodgers’ economical guitar-playing, sleek yet highly expressive, was at the centre of the action. The singing, led by Davis, was exuberant and soulful, while the musicianship was tight....
December 20, 2018
The Life of a Song
‘Autumn Leaves’ — the song about death that lives on
...But the song transcends genre: country singer Jimmie Rodgers’ otherworldly vocal is one of the most devastatingly effective, while Grace Jones recorded a disco version in the late 1970s....
September 26, 2017
The Life of a Song
The Life of a Song: ‘My Funny Valentine’
...Miles Davis also made the song part of his repertoire and recorded it several times. The best is a live 1964 concert recording of a fundraising benefit for black voter registration in Mississippi....
August 7, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Liam Noble & Myra Melford, Vortex Jazz Club, London — review
...And to show that he is not all rumble and thump, he finished his set with a gently skewed version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “It Might as Well be Spring”....
April 24, 2015
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Cole Porter: a tribute at the Proms
...Two American principals, Alexandra Silber and Ben Davis, were well chosen for Lilli and Fred, the Katharine and Petruchio in the play-within-a-play of The Taming of the Shrew, both singing strongly and sparring...
August 8, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Avicii: True
...Nile Rodgers and what sounds like a synthesised kazoo solo; the song is aptly entitled “Shame on Me”....
September 13, 2013
News in-depthUS politics & policy
Ann Romney steals Republicans’ Tampa show
...Another was for Artur Davis, a former African-American Democratic congressman from Alabama who defected from his old party to join the Republicans....
August 29, 2012
InterviewLife & Arts
Chic to Chic
...Beverley married Bobby Glanzrock, a white man described in the book as a “beatnik PhD, whose observations had angles that would make Miles Davis contemplate his cool”....
October 23, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York
...This is owing not to the story of the two soldiers – one of whom, portrayed by Brad Fleischer, succumbs to stress, while the other, portrayed by the generally sensitive actor Glenn Davis with atypical bluntness...
April 5, 2011
Life & Arts
Arts around the world
...The Oxford musicians, who took their name from a Talking Heads song, set guitar rock and metronomic beats to minimal vocals, citing Queen, Miles Davis and R.E.M. as musical influences....
May 4, 2008
Semiconductors
Perspectives: The six books that shaped my view of technology
...One of the first books to treat computers as serious business was The Computer Establishment, published by Katherine Davis Fishman in 1981....
September 18, 2007
Personal Finance
New financial tactics will help couple score
...Rodger recommends she consider consolidating all her schemes into one Self Invested Personal Pension (Sipp)....
August 4, 2006

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