by Clare Finn | Oct 12, 2018 | Visual Arts
How do you conserve an entire profession’s history? Looking at the tools, say, a carpenter might leave behind him fails to convey certain achievements even if the work resulted in glorious marquetry or the conservation of a piece by André Charles Boulle. Yet this is... 
by Lucien Jenkins | Oct 5, 2018 | Music
The cast in ENO’s new production of Strauss’s biblical opera are on good form. Stuart Jackson’s Narraboth rings out in the opening scene. The eponymous Alison Cook’s voice is not used to ring out but to extremely dramatic effect as the girl caught up in a world in... 
by Rick Jones | Oct 4, 2018 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On 3rd October 2018, Britain’s foremost artist David Hockney received the Critics’ Circle award for Distinguished Service to Art. The relaxed ceremony took place over lunch at the Chelsea Arts Club, London, a beautiful venue with access through long french... 
by Lucien Jenkins | Oct 1, 2018 | Music, Uncategorized
Facing Tolstoy’s massive novel combining epic and romance, Prokofiev had to choose how far he was composing a war horse and how far a pony. Sadly, a Stalinist committee designed a camel for him. The novel’s Pyotr-called-Pierre (Mark Le Brocq), Natalya-called-Natasha... 