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...Later, the Slavic svirel flute intertwines with vocals from UK singer Eska on “Living” and Saul Williams’ sombre spoken word is enhanced by sparse layers of harp and bamboo flute on “Managing my Breath,...
...Jessica Cale is the glamorous-voiced Poppea and Martha Jones a firmly sung Nero, but the countertenor Ottone, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, is disappointing....
...The waters of the Rhine ripple to the sound of xylophone and harp. Siegfried’s Funeral March takes on a worryingly catchy jazz-rock tread....
...Its 12 panels contain symbols of Great Britain (including a gloriously buxom Welsh harp), surrounded by a whirlwind of exotic flowers, birds, garlands and grotesques....
...The set closes with “Affinity”, from John Coltrane’s later years, roaring along at speed as Benjamin swaps phrases with left-of-centre alto saxophonists Greg Osby and Bruce Williams....
...William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”, a slight misfire on record, swapped Blake’s tripping anapaests for a hypnotic deep synchronised drumbeat from Catto, Antunes and Thevarajah....
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...“Patricia” had expressive harp-playing and a lyrical contrast between nurture and greed, delivered with theatrical shifts in tone by Welch....
...And there is a light-hearted cover of John Williams’ “Cantina Band”, from the film Star Wars....
...At 19 she married William King, later Lord Lovelace, and brought up three children (a little haphazardly) while riding, singing, playing the harp, ice-skating, learning algebra and astronomy, studying mesmerism...
...In it he installed an aeolian harp....
...In 1788 he published a pamphlet condemning his former occupation, supporting William Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery. Newton had plenty to repent....
...With a huge number of performers, running to eight trombones and four harps, the NYO performance could hardly have been less than cataclysmic....
...“Kiss me with your mouth/ Your love is better than wine,” Williams sings in “Kiss Me”....
...Along the way, he strummed and picked and switched guitars, moved from harp-like ripples to fluent pure-toned jazz and from zitherish shimmers to grungy rock as well as sporadically triggering the various...
...William Oglethorpe sounds like a very English name, but this cheese maker is a Frenchman raised in Tanzania and Switzerland, where he learnt his craft in the Swiss Alps....
...Again, these works are slightly let down by the context, and the tone of the evening is further complicated by John Williams’ Theme from Schindler’s List....
...As is typical of O’Malley, it’s a collaboration with the likes of Atsuo, from Japanese drone band Boris, Michio Kurihara, and William Herzog of Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter....
...Debussy String Quartet, Piano Trio etc Brodsky Quartet, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Sioned Williams (Chandos)...
...Just a wobble up St Martin’s Lane from the Harp I find a supreme example of an ostentatious 19th-century pub building....
...Details William Dalrymple was a guest of Five Star Greece ( www.fivestargreece.com). The company offers a week at Villa Oulos, which sleeps 16, from €18,000....
...Though Brian Smith Walters was over-stretched by the tenor role, Jeremy Huw Williams was a strong Domenico and Caryl Hughes made the most of sister Angela’s defining solo....
...(12 poems by William Soutar) and various Scottish folk-songs, “personal” without sounding twee or contrived....
...From Mr William Pitt....
...In a rare intervention in housing policy on Monday, William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, called the plan a “step in the right direction” but added that he “hope[s] that more will follow”....
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