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...More Americans trust Trump to handle the economy, according to the most recent FT-Michigan Ross survey....
...He and fellow IU alumnus Todd Wagner developed the idea to stream audio from Hoosiers basketball games over the internet....
...says Lindsay Peoples Wagner....
...Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, by Alex Ross, 4th Estate, RRP£30, 784 pages As composer, writer and polemicist, Richard Wagner has had a profound influence beyond his music....
...Other recent car park operas, such as the Deutsche Oper’s Wagner, never thought of that. Imagine this as a drive-in movie, but showing Puccini instead of a Hitchcock classic or a Star Wars marathon....
...It is a vast tome on the multi-dimensional effect of Wagner’s music on the world....
...The ship’s first fame came with Sir James Clark Ross’s four-year Antarctic expedition of 1839....
...Those political overtones chimed with David Schwimmer, best known for playing Ross in the sitcom Friends, who offered to help produce Beyond Caring at Lookingglass, a company he co-founded while a student...
...Between 9am and 10am, an organist plays uplifting music on the organ in the entrance hall (Haydn, Bach or Wagner in Carnegie’s time – a more eclectic mix today)....
...“We have to go back to Wagner,” says Ross, “to understand this corruption of music for the sake of political ideology.”...
...The young Tony Hall was introduced to opera by playing a 78 recording of “bits of” Wagner’s Tannhäuser on a wind-up gramophone belonging to his grandmother....
...The saving grace of Harry Fehr’s period staging, designed by Yannis Thavoris, is the oceanic video imagery of Finn Ross’s projections....
...In a cultural universe that made sense, the salaries of Rattle and Jonathan Ross would be reversed. But then we all wish for world peace, too....
...Jane Goldman, who co-wrote the screenplay for Kick-Ass, is married to the television presenter Ross....
...Think of Alec Baldwin’s speech in the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross: “You know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes brass balls to sell real estate.”...
...New-world optimism and a gentler, kinder wit are the qualities of Ross McElwee’s In Paraguay....
...At the ENO, Wagner is popular, as is native English repertoire....
...The Wagner Clan By Jonathan Carr Faber £20, 384 pages FT bookshop price: £16 A former FT journalist conjures up a gripping history of the controversies and power struggles in Germany’s most famous family...
...Desert Island Discs is not a vehicle for its presenters in the way that many other interview shows have been - Parkinson itself, for example, or Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Breakfast with Frost and...
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