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Is Moonlight really the best film of the year?
It’s years since I wanted to rush out to see a film just because it won Best Picture at the Oscars – I’ve been burnt far too many times. So I went along to “Moonlight” telling myself not to fall … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Oscars
The circus brothers
My Times review of Truevine, Beth Macy’s account of the lives of the black albino brothers, George and Willie Muse, star turns in American freak shows: As minor celebrities they appeared in the pages of The New Yorker — usually … Continue reading
Posted in History, Race, Reviews
Tagged book review, freak show, George & Willie Muse, The New Yorker, The Times
Notebook
As it was, I had in 1939 decided to dedicate my life to Haydn, of whose music there was, in those days, no collected edition; indeed, only one-tenth had ever been published at all. Yet I always considered Mozart something … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Notebook, Uncategorized
Tagged H.C. Robbins Landon
From the far left to the far right
David Horowitz’s journey. Odd to think a man who wrote a book as perceptive as the 60s memoir “Radical Son” seems content to be a mouthpiece for someone as crude as Donald Trump.
Posted in Uncategorized
The voice
It goes without saying that the new release from Rhiannon Giddens is my record of the week in the Sunday Times: So much for that “difficult second album” challenge. If the roots singer/banjo player’s 2015 solo debut was a breathtaking … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews
Tagged Bhi Bhiman, Rhiannon Giddens, Staples Singers
Notebook
We don’t know yet what the televising of the conventions will do to American politics, to elections, to the convention system itself. Some of us fear what one good demagogue with a fine voice and a rousing profile might do … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Technology, TV, US politics
Tagged Alistair Cooke, Cinerama, demagogues, Edmund Burke, Hitler, political conventions
Blowhard
Remind you of anyone? More fascinating satirical images of Il Duce here. HT @CurseandtheCure
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Good vibes, bad sound
A mixed bag at the Festival Hall. My review of the latest Transatlantic Sessions roadshow: In the end the joie de vivre pouring forth on the stage made up for the oddly harsh sound mix. Amplification isn’t usually a problem … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged acoustics, Aly Bain, Festival Hall, Jerry Douglas, review, Transatlantic Sessions
