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...Anna Dennis and John Findon were the two soloists meeting vocal challenges with grace and accuracy in the teeth of explosive denunciations from the orchestra....
...But this newfound traction can be attributed in part to The Speed Project (TSP) – an intimidating, unsanctioned 548km schlep from Santa Monica to Las Vegas that has no official route, no spectators, no rules...
...to be announced; further information here Roma Summer Fest 2024, Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone One of the city’s biggest rock and pop events beckons Italian and international talent to grace...
...His refinement, his balance of realism with grace and the harmonies of his colours ensured that already in his lifetime they were prized as art works in their own right....
...After Pearl Harbor, she and most of her family were interned in a horse stable at the Santa Anita Park track, an experience that was both miserable and formative....
...Blahnik was born in Santa Cruz de La Palma in November 1942; his Spanish mother’s family owned a banana plantation in the Canaries, while his Czech father, a businessman, had taken refuge there to avoid...
...Until August 25; further information and tickets here From Maria Callas to Elton John via Grace Jones and Cher, Diva celebrates “the power and creativity of iconic performers” across art, fashion, film,...
...It’s delicious, especially dipped in Santa Ana’s sublime hot chocolate. (Tourists often each buy their own hot chocolate, whereas Spaniards typically buy one to share.)...
...June 30-July 2, lovesupremefestival.com Santa Fe Opera Festival, New Mexico Recently voted festival of the year at the International Opera Awards, Santa Fe has long dominated the Southwest’s opera diary...
...The coup de grâce: a fly-by-night rental office in the basement of a Nice hotel that flew by night, stranding me and my 88-year-old father at 11pm....
...The maître d’ has the air of a long-suffering CEO and the waiters might not grace diners with their presence as often as expected. The prices are not cheap....
...The wine, A Tribute to Grace 2017, was made by Angela Osborne from Santa Barbara Highlands Vineyard, whose raison d’être as a winemaker, the accompanying notes tell us, “is replicating a bottle of Château...
...I can tell you, it’s put me right off a career in government — and I haven’t even got a house in Santa Monica....
...Themes are generosity (St Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, who gave to the poor; the Magi bearing gifts) and magnanimity (Alexander’s grace to defeated Darius’s family)....
...Its swift fall from grace has instead cast a shadow over Japan’s entire financial services industry, the FT writes....
...“Gas taxes are too politically fraught to be a pillar of climate policy,” said Paasha Mahdavi, a political-science professor at the University of California Santa Barbara....
...When Jenny Saville painted “Rosetta” in 2005-06, the British artist could not have known that one day her painting would grace a Florentine chapel in the cradle of the Renaissance....
...Opposite stands the great basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, built in 639, when the Rialto was still a mud bank....
...In Santa Gets a Second Job (Macmillan £9.99) Santa is an employee of the International Postal Service, until there are cutbacks and he is made redundant....
...The rooms are awash in original art and furnishings — collection sketches by Karl Lagerfeld grace the walls of one, vintage Thonet chairs adorn another, a framed foulard signed by Picasso is showcased in...
...In the past year or so they have been my saving grace. They come in a bucket – I arrange them and separate them out in my collection of vases and they bring me a lot of joy....
...There’s the very worthy Galleria d’Arte Moderna, in the Sant’Anna convent complex, and vibrant concerts and exhibitions in the almost absurdly pretty Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Kalsa’s unfinished, roofless...
...In 1970, she met Peter and moved to the US, accepting a three-month stint teaching in Santa Barbara....
...“I think we are often drifting through our lives, tuned out a little bit,” says the softly spoken 72-year-old over the phone from her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which she shares with Lily, her Westie....
...In Costa Rica, they claimed they’d found nothing except in Santa Teresa, the surfers’ hotspot further south. Its much-loved boutique resorts – Latitude 10 and Florblanca – are always full....
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