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...The only recorded comment on the first performance of JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Leipzig’s St Thomas Church on Good Friday 1727 is that of an elderly widow in the congregation....
...Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, JM Originals, RRP£10.99/Counterpoint, RRP$26 (2017) An acclaimed debut following three generations of a New Orleans family....
...They travel, among other places, to Missolonghi (Byron), Amherst (Dickinson), Rome (Keats), New York (Dylan Thomas) and Fire Island (Frank O’Hara)....
...Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories, by Thomas Grant, John Murray, RRP£25, 432 pages John Campbell’s biography ‘Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life’ is published this month in paperback by Vintage Photographs...
...Asda Money also offers good exchange rates online, by phone or at an in-store bureau and other names worth bearing in mind are Thomas Cook, Saga (over-50s only), and Moneycorp....
...William Thomas, chief executive of EOG, said last week that even if oil fell to $40 the company could still earn a 10 per cent return in some areas, including the Bakken and the Eagle Ford shales....
...at King’s College Hospital, London, the second child of former Beatle Paul McCartney and wife Linda, a photographer (below right, in 1998, with her parents at Chloé). 1983 While a 12-year-old pupil at Thomas...
...The first, The Vesuvius Club, is a gung-ho Edwardian adventure in the mould of Sax Rohmer and Sexton Blake....
...William Sexton, who last month resigned as Refco’s chief operating officer, was appointed chief executive....
...Thomas H Lee’s, the buy-out firm that bought into Refco last year and rode the IPO and subsequent gains, is still the company’s largest shareholder with about 38 per cent stake of the shares, according to...
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