The appointment of Lisa Nandy to Culture, Media and Sport is something of a surprise give her lack of profile in any of these spheres.
But those with long memories may recall she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell for a couple of years, and Tessa was the best Culture Secretary we ever had.
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The town of Tauberbischofsheim in Baden-Württemberg (pop. 13,000) has a music school named after a composer called Richard Trunk. Trunk (1879-1968) was an earrly member of the Nazi party who met Hitler on several occasions. […]
Versailles yesterday witnessed the death of Martial Solal, an epic figure in French jazz and film. A Jewish pianist from Algiers, he mingled in 1950s Paris with Django Reinhardt and Sydney Bechet, forming his own […]
This is an excellent disc, but it is somewhat scuppered by lack of texts. That said, these are delightful works. They ae all love cantatas, and the narrating voice can morph between male and female […]
