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WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic bag. A floor above...
By Ileiren Poon, ExpressNews Staff November 19, 2009 - (Edmonton) Music students are presenting a night of modern musical genius at the University of Alberta Opera Workshop's Evening of Opera: Opera Scenes from 20th Century...
One of the most astonishing stories in pianist history came from World War I veteran Paul Wittgenstein. The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, by French composer Maurice Ravel, is a testament not only to Ravel's...
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no...
LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Alan Bennett has a lot on his mind in his latest play, "The Habit of Art," including creativity, aging, fame, anonymity and sex, and it hangs together because of his gift for language and fine...
ARDA MANDIKIAN: SOPRANO CHAMPIONED BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Times/uk November 17, 2009 Arda Mandikian, left, as the ghost of Miss Jessel with Jennifer Vyvyan in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw A singer whose repertoire...
A double act in word and image Frances Spalding has a superb track-record as a writer on British art. Superbly illustrated with colour plates, photographs and generous line drawings, this is a bumper book on both artistic...
Opera Singer. A soprano, she had a repertoire that covered over 2,000 years, from ancient Greek melodies to operatic roles and song cycles composed especially for her. Born in the Biblical city of Smyrna in what was then...
Music for young people. The Art of Listening . Dr George Firth director of Scotland of the Arts Council for Great Britain. Mary Firth (pianist). An Opportunity for those under 35 This last item, The...
Carlos Niño is in London as part of the London Jazz week with his Build An Ark ensemble that plays, what he calls “creative soul music”; Hectic went down to Brick Lane to find out what it was all about.
