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...She was joined in oblivion by Shirley Jaffe, whose untitled 1954 canvas looks like a city seen through a break in the clouds by a myopic bird....
...“The first thing that people think of when you mention coral is that the reefs are dying,” says Shirley Mitchell, chair of the UK’s Jewellery Valuers Association....
...Mitchell and Asta were founding members of a queer commune in Ithaca, New York, and that sense of hippy utopian polemicism permeates the work....
...Members holding both include BBC Antiques Roadshow jewellery expert Joanna Hardy, who sits on Gem-A’s board, Jewellery Valuers Association chair Shirley Mitchell, and Charlotte Pittel, who graduated from...
...In the evening’s second half, the close interplay between pianist Robert Mitchell and cellist Shirley Smart reflected a musical relationship almost as old as Jazz in the Round....
...John Mitchell, who alleged that she was sedated and locked in a hotel room on her husband’s orders (Martha Mitchell’s story has since been told in the TV series Gaslit)....
...Also turning 50 are Sandy Denny’s best-known solo album, Sandy, and Joni Mitchell’s For the Roses, the Canadian’s follow-up to Blue....
...Shirley Jackson’s gothic masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House (£44.95), first published in 1959, is widely acknowledged as one of the all-time great ghost stories....
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...Norman, Kathleen Battle, Barbara Hendricks, Roberta Alexander, Leona Mitchell....
...So it is a shame that Katie Mitchell’s production falls so far short of her earlier work for Aix. Perhaps she is doing too much; perhaps Ariadne was never going to be her piece....
...The 2018 annual reports of the big UK pub groups — Marston’s, Fuller’s, Greene King, Ei Group and Mitchells & Butlers — referred to this trend....
...Twelve short scenes depict Cardano, played by a speaking actor (Mitchell Butel), interacting with his peers, a range of roles shared by five singers (Jane Sheldon, Jessica O’Donoghue, Anna Fraser, Andrew...
...Mitchell’s concept relies heavily on the exhibitionistic physicality of Barbara Hannigan as Mélisande....
...The studio lights were turned down low as fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sang backing vocals....
...Part Fifty Shades, part Eyes Wide Shut, with a sprinkling of Dorian Gray, Mitchell’s staging takes Handel’s magic at face value....
...Exhibiting a similar fascination with the dark glamour of 1960s pop, Le Pie conveys something deeply unsettling in her vocals, spanning punk vengefulness and Shirley Bassey grandeur....
...Kay Metzger’s production is a modest affair, simpler and more literal than Mitchell’s multi-layered extravagance....
...Nor does Mitchell’s painstakingly literal production give room for suggestion or ambiguity – a pity, as these are the subject’s strongest assets....
...He cites last year’s world premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin in a Katie Mitchell production that has won almost universal acclaim in every port of call since....
...The campaign attracted not merely students in droves but also Hollywood celebrities such as Shirley MacLaine and her brother Warren Beatty, which made for mob scenes....
...Katie Mitchell’s production splits the stage into doll’s-house rooms on two levels (sets and costumes: Vicki Mortimer), augmenting the troupe of angels with silent supernumeraries....
...Rudd and Stone’s performances were impressive, serious and absolutely evocative of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
...Katie Mitchell’s production treats Trojahn’s opera as a contemporary crime scene....
...She sang three songs, each one a riveting narrative of brittleness and strength, from the liberated testimony of the Joni Mitchell-esque “Rambling Man” through the bitten-back emotions of “I Speak Because...
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