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The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023
Best classical albums of 2023 — from Byrd and Mozart to Rodgers and Hammerstein
..., none stays as close to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s original as this....
December 14, 2023
HTSIThe top 10 HTSI stories of 2022
Everything must go — Pharrell Williams is selling off his legacy
...As one half of the production duo The Neptunes, alongside his schoolfriend Chad Hugo, Williams did for the 2000s and 2010s what Nile Rodgers did for the 1970s: creating a sound so irresistible that the musical...
September 29, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
Best theatre shows of 2022
...— Daniel Fish’s stunning rethink of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic unfolds in what feels like a local community hall....
December 28, 2022
ObituaryMichael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith, musician and songwriter, 1942-2021
...In the liner notes to The First National Band’s debut album, he cited Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmie Rodgers as influences for their “pure approach to what they have sung and written — free from...
December 17, 2021
ObituaryShirley Williams
Shirley Williams, politician, 1930-2021
...In 1981 she and three allies — former cabinet members Owen, Jenkins and Rodgers — left the party in one of the most dramatic political departures of modern times....
April 13, 2021
Shirley Williams
‘Liberal lion’ Shirley Williams dies aged 90
...Williams — who formed the “Gang of Four” along with David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers — won the Crosby by-election for the SDP in 1981....
April 12, 2021
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
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SEC opens debate on finding alternatives to IPOs
...William Hinman, director of the SEC’s division of corporation finance, was among the officials present at the meeting, one of the people said....
October 17, 2019
HTSIThe HTSI Autumn Arts Issue 2021
What’s your favourite musical?
...Dr William Rowley Junior doctor, NHS T-shirt: A Chorus Line, opened 15 April 1975, at The Public Theatre, New YorkMusic: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Edward Kleban “I worked for the British Fashion Council...
September 22, 2021
Music
Nile Rodgers: ‘I don’t think I’m a great writer. I’m a really good rewriter’
...He’s produced or appeared on hits in every decade since he started, with his most recent earworm being 2015’s “Get Lucky”, co-written with Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams....
July 12, 2019
Scoreboard
Scoreboard: The money behind Man City’s legal battle with Uefa Premium content
...Superstar athletes such as Roger Federer and Serena Williams are becoming investors in their own right....
June 6, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Ariana Grande rediscovers her Midas touch with her new album Thank U, Next
...But sympathy obscured the fact that it was a patchy affair, unbalanced by Pharrell Williams’ self-consciously envelope-pushing production work....
February 8, 2019
Q&AFT Magazine
Q&A with actor Mandy Patinkin
...I learnt my craft there from [director] Gerald Freedman, [actor] Marian Seldes and my classmates, one of whom was William Hurt....
June 12, 2018
Life & Arts
‘Critics are afraid of sentiment’: Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects at 70
...Last year there were four Lloyd Webber productions being staged on Broadway at the same time — a feat not achieved since Rodgers and Hammerstein....
March 23, 2018
Life & Arts
Upcoming auctions in London
...Bonhams, July 5 One of the highlights here is a recently discovered portrait of the English civil war turncoat Thomas Pope by William Larkin, with an estimate of £40,000-£60,000....
June 23, 2017
The Life of a Song
‘Autumn Leaves’ — the song about death that lives on
...In 1955 Roger Williams’ recording became the only piano instrumental ever to reach number one in the Billboard chart, his cascading arpeggios accentuating the leaves’ pirouetting descent....
September 26, 2017
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewLife & Arts
Limehouse at Donmar Warehouse: it’s my party and i’ll leave if I want to
...Debra Gillett as Shirley Williams heroically combats the flying testosterone and shows her gift for couching ideological matters in human terms; Paul Chahidi as Bill Rodgers, the least prominent of the Four...
March 9, 2017
Robert Shrimsley
SDP casts a wrong shadow over Labour’s anti-Corbyn rebels
...Last time, the split was led by four political heavyweights, all former cabinet ministers, at least three of whom — Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams and David Owen — had substantial public profiles....
July 28, 2016
UK politics
Labour ructions echo breakaway of Social Democrats in 1981
...The great Labour schism prompted by the “Gang of Four” — Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers — on that day has a newfound resonance at Westminster....
January 25, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Payday lender targets students
...longer able to accrue large unsecured debts because many forms of mainstream credit are now unavailable to them — a result of banks tightening their lending criteria due to the past recession,” says David Rodger...
January 29, 2016
ObituaryWorld
Labour political heavyweight who often raised eyebrows
...And in 1980-81 when Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen, William Rodgers and others were breaking away to form the Social Democratic party, their prize would have been to take him with them but Healey...
October 3, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, London – review
...Richard Rodgers, Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman are all on the bill in a season that ranges widely across 20th-century American music. This “American Song” evening was a tale of two halves....
January 29, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
...The constant use of vocoders and an all-male cast of guests (Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder) leave one yearning for one aspect of classic disco that the album avoids – the volcanic emotions...
May 17, 2013
ObituaryLife & Arts
Genteel crooner who set hearts aflutter
...Rodgers, the “father of country music”, popularised the yodel with his 1928 “Blue Yodel No. 1”....
June 21, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life’
..., Bill Rodgers and Dr David Owen....
March 20, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York
...Linguistically, Williams does not require her to serve up slices of spicy Southern fruitcake; Big Daddy’s birthday dessert will do. What poetry her character possesses Monk doesn’t linger over....
January 17, 2013

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