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...Hushed sections for the two soloists, Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams, and chorale incantations offer intermittent balm, but Fiat Lux leaves a lingering feeling that it is overweighted towards showing off...
...MacMillan’s larky pastiche of conventional pairwork loses its edge if the players ham it up....
...There is a fine duet for William Bracewell and Fumi Kaneko, although her late flurry of fouettés and chaînés felt ersatz and out of place on the McGregor menu and looked suspiciously like pastiche....
...In this performance, soprano Lucy Crowe and baritone Roderick Williams are the excellent soloists and Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra....
...Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nicholas Caistor (Macmillan) Antonia Scott is a hyper-intelligent investigator living in Madrid, working for a secret EU police project....
...A bonus comes in the form of two new pieces, commissioned from James MacMillan and Roderick Williams, tributes in the Tudor manner to Tom and Will. ★★★★☆ ‘Tom and Will’ is released by Signum Classics...
...Indeed, a new book by the art historian Duncan Macmillan, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art, says Ramsay’s portraits are one of the turning points in European painting....
...those in their thirties aren’t maturing into right-leaning voters as age, wisdom and taxes arrive.In the introduction, Conservative MP Bim Afolami invokes the former prime ministers housebuilder Harold Macmillan...
...ENB already has two of the finest Rites — by Kenneth MacMillan and Pina Bausch — both of which adhere to the notion of tribal sacrifice encoded in the score....
...Soprano Ann Masina, a frequent collaborator with artist William Kentridge, supplies the most powerful element, unleashing beguiling streams of cardinal vowels together with shorter passages of (untranslated...
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...the trust of one of the most insecure and suspicious men ever to sit in the Oval Office and also proved a master of bureaucratic politics, deftly side-lining the State Department and secretary of state William...
...James II fled and William and Mary ushered in a constitutional monarchy, what Healey calls “the last revolution” of 1688-89....
...After the patrician guard of Eden, Macmillan and Douglas-Home, he looked and sounded like the future arriving....
...Soprano soloist Lucy Crowe floated ineffably angelic top notes and baritone Roderick Williams touched the heart with his solo from Milton....
...Saturday morning’s matinee brought the fresh pairing of Fumi Kaneko and William Bracewell....
...To reflect the emotions of the past year, MacMillan chose two poignant poems by Shelley, setting them for the same voices as the Vaughan Williams....
...At the time of the first Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in 2012, William McIlvanney initially seemed a slightly forlorn figure — a major talent, now neglected and mostly out of print....
...Protagonist Ellen Adams despises the bumptious, egotistical US President Williams (no prizes for guessing who he is based on) but has nevertheless agreed to be his secretary of state....
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...The evening ended firmly in the 21st century with Playlist (Track 1, 2), a 2018 commission by William Forsythe....
...The resulting backlog, Macmillan fears, could take 20 months to clear....
...In this century’s darkest hour the government turned for inspiration not to William Beveridge but to Otto von Bismarck — the respective intellectual godfathers of the contrasting British and continental-style...
...In the description of William Clayton, the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs: “We loaded the British loan negotiations with all the conditions the traffic would bear.”...
...Meanwhile a succession of Conservative prime ministers — from Winston Churchill to Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath — came to enjoy the Astors’ hospitality....
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