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...Shirley Collins suffered this scenario in real life....
...“Here Comes That Day” cast her as a Shirley Bassey belter, albeit with a vastly narrower vocal reach. “Peek-A-Boo” was a fantasy of Weimar hip-hop....
...This is a score that should be shooting off sparks of repressed tension from the word go, not swimming in a basin of ambient lyricism....
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...The final applause is polite, but there is no spark of passion. This is a pity, because the musical performances are extraordinarily good....
...At a time when we’ve said goodbye to some giants of children’s literature – Shirley Hughes, Eric Carle and Jill Murphy, John Burningham, Judith Kerr – these new collaborators are hoping to find some space...
...Its first outside investors were two Taiwanese-born products of the Ivy League: Joe Tsai, a Wall Street lawyer turned investor, and Syaru Shirley Lin, a Goldman Sachs banker....
...The first strikes sparks off the careers of the stars from the late 1960s: it opens with a home demo from Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, recorded in 1964, and includes an eerie field recording from her...
...Shirley Hazzard: Collected Stories. Edited by Brigitta Olubas, foreword by Zoë Heller....
...Brothers La bohème Round Four The History Boys by Alan Bennett Grange Hill Jane Eyre St Trinian’s Grease Glee Gavin Williamson Tony Blair Bash Street (The Beano) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark...
...But Owen Shirley, an analyst at Berenberg, who was responsible for one of the downgrades, disagrees....
...That is helping to spark green issuance in all manner of unlikely places, even Brazil....
...All that’s missing is the final spark of musical conviction. To July 18, festival-aix.com...
...Musicians, paid token fees, come for the repertoire and the chance to strike musical sparks off colleagues; a cultivated audience focuses with rapt attention on every note....
...Mortier was always willing to risk failure in the hope that his artistic sparks would ignite. They often did but he was also responsible for some glorious flops. His legacy lives on. lamonnaie.be...
...However, the production loses a lot of da Ponte’s spark, thanks not least to the frequent deployment of a black curtain separating scenes that should not be apart....
...To give an example, her regular setting, the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, has a quasi-political rationale. “Even though the country’s so big, there’s a sense anybody could go anywhere....
...Graham Greene’s attitudes to sin and death are on display in his film reviews, though he overstepped the mark with Shirley Temple and received a libel writ....
...enough – for instance, large chunks are penned for boy soprano, and the composer knows enough to pare back the orchestration and double the vocal line to help us hear the writer-as-child – but the maverick spark...
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen. To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...And Pigott-Smith gives a beautifully detailed study in self-pity as Frank, the dried-up sceptic who begins to recover his spark....
...But he lacks both the incendiary spark of his predecessor, Andris Nelsons, and the poetic sensitivity of his compatriot Ainars Rubikis....
...Jánacek sees “the spark of God in every creature”, and Chéreau reveals it with heart- rending clarity. There is nothing new or modern about the evening....
...The Obama campaign may have created the spark to enable that new leadership to emerge.”...
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