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The hymn Be Still, My Soul takes its music from Finlandia by Jean Sibelius. It has less grip on the incoming president’s attention than the future sovereignty of Greenland. He talks right through the hymn. […]

The classical guitarist David Chevallier has announced the death from cancer of his beloved wife, international soprano Anne Magouët. After 6 years of a tough fight against cancer, Anne Magouët, my wife, my muse, turned […]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born 178 years ago this week, on  25th February   1841, was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement’s most popular practitioners. He is best known for […]