In today’s birthday honours, King Charles has bestowed well-deserved knighthoods on the church composer John Rutter and the outgoing BrittenPears chief Roger Wright, a former head of the BBC Proms and Radio 3.
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Word is going round that Andrew S. Grossman has died. Grossman was one of the last surviving ex-directors of the all-powerful Columbia Artists Management Inc, not exactly jumping off the deck of the Titanic but […]
Handel: Rodelinda – Lucy Crowe – Garsington Opera (Photo: courtesy Garsington Opera) Handel: Rodelinda; Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Ed Lyon, Brandon Cedel, Marvic Monreal, Hugh Cutting, director: Ruth Knight, the English Concert, conductor: Peter Whelan; […]
In 1964, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times called Stanley Kubrick’s movie Dr Strangelove, “the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across”. The almost slavishly admiring stage production currently at the Noel Coward Theatre lives […]
