by Rick Jones | Feb 7, 2019 | Music
Early promise “The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs” is what Shakespeare actually wrote in The Tempest with reference to the magical island of the play’s setting, although of course it was always taken as Britannia. Perhaps there will be a...
by Rick Jones | Nov 27, 2018 | Dance
The 19th National Dance Awards The awards presented each year by the Dance section of the Critics’ Circle are also kniown as The National Dance Awards because they are unrivalled for prestige and importance. Announcement of Nominations The Dance Section of the...
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 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...
