Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Patients into 'Patience'

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The theatre that is called the Assemblay Room at Normansfield was opened in June 1879 with a grand event graced by the band of the Grenadier...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Christmas 2006

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Friday, December 01, 2006

Tax a pair of Gondoliers

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ENO's The Gondoliers Gilbert and Sullivan managed to get over their penultimate quarrel and wrote The Gondoliers . Great success. After ...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Triumphant Debut by Colin Davis: 28 November 1958

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Colin Davis, assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted his first professional opera on the stage at Sadler's Wells on...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

My Music in London 1945-2000: Nicholas Kenyon's review for The Tablet

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John Amis has been for a long time a witty and perceptive observer of the musical scene in this country, most recently in the pages of The T...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Myth Conception

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Opera it ain’t. But it contains marvels of staging; tech doesn’t get any higher. It is Gaddafi: A Living Myth , given a short run by English...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Private Passions (Radio 3) Telegraph review

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On radio: good company is what makes great radio Presenters who make you listen, rather than just hear, are the key to successful programm...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

John Amis

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Monday, December 19, 2005

Sweet singing in the choir (From The Tablet's Christmas edition 2005)

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My friend from Johannesburg loves what Thomas Hardy called ‘the ancient stave’, choral music of the medieval and renaissance era. When she’s...
Wednesday, October 17, 2001

amispic

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