by Rick Jones | Sep 3, 2018 | Music
Several of the Proms have celebrated the American composer Leonard Bernstein in his centenary. Nothing has been more rapturously received than Bernstein’s musical West Side Story performed at the halfway weekend by the John Wilson Orchestra under the founder-conductor...
by Rick Jones | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized, Visual Arts
German refugees from the Nazi terror were so numerous in North London that the Finchley Road became ‘Finchleystrasse!’ to the bus conductors. This is the title of a moving exhibition at the German Embassy of paintings, etchings and graphics by some thirty hugely...
by Rick Jones | Nov 30, 2017 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On Wednesday 6 December 2017, the winner of the Critics’ Circle’s annual award for Distinguished Service to the Arts will be announced at the Circle’s Annual General Meeting in London, and in due course published. The 500 members of the Circle are...
by Rick Jones | Aug 21, 2017 | Music
Thrill Ride A certain musical schizophrenia characterised the last hundred years: as “The 20th Century” the age was bright, modern and broke with the past. Composers braved atonality and persuaded the players it was the future, but as “The Nineteen Hundreds” it was a...
