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...As the Angel, Anna Stéphany sings with perfectly judged eloquence and Andrew Foster-Williams brings unexaggerated authority to the double bass-baritone role....
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...In 2018, grime icon Wiley, was awarded an MBE by Prince William. Last year, former US president Barack Obama listed tracks from Stormzy, Dave and Central Cee on his annual playlist....
...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...Kelly Hogan and Saundra Williams also sang backing vocals, with the odd lead part when Staples rested in a chair sipping at a mug....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...in Concert: The Flying Dutchman’ and ‘Farewell to our Music Director’, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall A concert performance of Wagner’s opera by the city’s Philharmonic Orchestra, with American bass-baritone...
...Described by Blanchard as “opera in jazz”, this powerful adaptation of Charles M Blow’s painful coming-of-age memoir returns with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Charles....
...At another, he re-creates the bass line from Junior Walker’s soul classic “Shotgun”....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...I am sensitive to their needs being a practising musician myself, still playing double bass and piano in my own ensemble.”...
...He was instrumental in recruiting William Bratton, the former New York police chief and champion of “broken windows” policing, to Los Angeles in the early 2000s and has pledged to add 1,500 more officers...
...My thin cuts of sea bass have been expertly seasoned with lime and chilli. We are already on a second bottle of water....
...It’s very loud, and accompanied by a battery of clattering percussionists, featuring the bass-heavy tabl and an assortment of higher-register drums....
...“Generational Bonds”, the album’s second track, begins with sparsely scattered piano and floaty Formanek double bass....
...The Britten Sinfonia and conductor William Cole made a strong case for each. ★★★★☆ brittensinfonia.com...
...He is kept company by sketches of his children, Lego models – “You can’t spend enough money on Lego,” Carter advises – wooden file trays, and a trio of stuffed bass encased in glass: “I love fish vitrines...
...The vocals swoop gloriously, Blount’s guitar and banjo bass propel the song over Brian Slattery’s percussion, and the words cast a deepening chill....
...The soprano Nardus Williams drew the large hall into the soft, sweet spell of “Et incarnatus” and “Benedictus”, suspending Smyth’s high-lying lines like shining gossamer....
...Elsewhere, three paintings by Claude Monet from the late New York philanthropist Anne Bass made a combined $169mn at Christie’s, while another Monet, a 1908 painting of Venice, sold for $49mn ($56.6mn with...
...Bassist William Parker was an established figure, and pianist Matthew Shipp and drummer Whit Dickey were newly arrived....
...Enjoy starters such as sea bass ceviche, citrus and cucumber (£28); with mains of octopus, baba ghanoush and lime (£38), and sirloin steak (10oz/300g), watercress and hazelnut (£72), served by an attentive...
...Co-produced by slam poet Saul Williams and Gonjasufi, they feature spoken-word passages alongside her throat-singing....
...In May, the auctioneer will offer $250mn of works from the late New York arts patron Anne Bass, and now comes news that, in October, it will start to sell the Ann and Gordon Getty collection....
...“Karen Bass is a progressive person and is very upfront about public safety being a priority,” Yaroslavsky said....
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