The events of the current decade have concentrated the minds of writers, directors and artists wonderfully. There have been sundry works of art about the West’s engagement with Islam. Why, Osama Bin Laden has even had a hilarious cameo on the ...
In 1900 Edward Elgar wrote: “P. S. I am learning the trombone.” At 43, he was somewhat old for a learner, and there seems to be some doubt about when he really started. And indeed when he finished. What is known is that the composer of the Enigma ...
Jasper Rees is an Englishman with Welsh roots. After neglecting them for years, he decided it was time to explore them. So he drove right around Wales ... You have to pay to get in. The cost, if you’re in a car, is £5.40 ($10). Pressing a note and two ...
You will never guess what Katie Mitchell is doing next. For 20 years she has been British theatre’s harbinger of doom, the obsessive anatomiser of anxiety, depression, misery and that continental condition known as anomie. While some emerge from her ...
“The Plot” is the third book from Madeleine Bunting, the Guardian op-ed columnist. The titular plot is an acre of Yorkshire moorland where her father built a chapel as a haven from modernity’s encroachments. The extended plot of this roaming narrative ...
You can hear the wall of sound from down the cobbled lane. That familiar melody, sampled by Puccini from a Chinese music box and long associated in English minds with football and Pavarotti, exerts its uniquely powerful hold in the sunny open air. ...
It’s not the play of the film. Got that? Not remotely based on the prison breakout movie regularly voted the best film of all time. That’s the mantra the team behind the play keep repeating. What they hope will become an unstoppable theatrical ...
The long-term planning required of a top-level conductor doesn’t come easily to an Italian. “We like to improvise everything,” Gianandrea Noseda says. “I hate the feeling of knowing exactly what I’m going to do in three years’ time. You get tired only ...
Uncomfortably close to church-hall am-dram.” “An aimless comedy-free void.” “You’d be better off simply getting a copy of the DVD.” “An over-extended anecdote... in truth, not much of a play.” You will not find any of these notices posted outside the ...
High culture, high summer and high altitude create a rousing major chord when Verbier hosts the only classical-music festival you can reach by cable car. Since 1994, stellar musicians have been dropping their fees to wallow in this collegiate ...
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