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Dancers trooped through St Paul's Cathedral, climbing on stage and arranging themselves into the ethereal groupings of Les Sylphides. In conventional theatres, that preparation is hidden by curtains. Here, it was part of the show, like the summer evening light and the glitter of the cathedral's mosaic ceiling.
Major work on today's program by the CMF Chamber Orchestra is Richard Strauss' First Horn Concerto; on Thursday and Friday Wu Man is soloist in Tan Dun's Pipa Concerto, offering most in the audience their first experience of her 1000-year-old instrument.
This timely and powerful study argues that a flawed urban-planning strategy has turned our cities into unfriendly, suspicious places, writes Rafael Behr The important thing about a castle is not that it is comfortable, but that it is secure, which makes the Englishman's proverbial urge to live in one rather bleak. Against whom are we fortifying our homes, if not one another? We pretend that our ...
Chomping at the bit to visit Cuba? You might want to consider reality versus my romanticism. If you like fancy, air-conditioned, comfortable surroundings and tony boutiques, it's not the place for... read more
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Among the too-easily overlooked composers of late German Romanticism is Joseph Marx, who died in 1964, leaving behind a clutch of first-rate songs and rather less scintillating large-scale works. Both categories are represented on this...
What happens when you put together two hopelessly romantic teenage lovers and two practical fathers in one musical? Chances are you'll get a disfigured Romeo and Juliet and a whirlwind tour of life's aches and wonders.
Repertory Philippines stages this play until July 26 at Greenbelt 1, Makati City.
This is Cam'ron circa 2009: the Harlem-based MC at his raw-knuckled best shifting his concerns from the penthouse to the pavements without missing a step.
In his astute take on the current electoral crisis in Iran ('An alternative reading', Al-Ahram Weekly , 25 June-1 July 2009), by far the best in the literature so far, Azmi Bishara lays out a very concise premise for our reading of the unfolding event but, alas, reaches a hasty and flawed conclusion.
Restoring the faded glamour of a Highland castle to its splendour of old would be considered a curious kind of strength training but that is the approach of Lee Craigie to a task rooted in romanticism. Her hours of toil with a traditional building company are no labour of love.
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