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Rosamund Zander missed a possibility this morning
Not for the first time, Stephen Fry made an observation recently that has echoed through my activities of the following week. In Jonathan Ross’ comeback show he observed a (generalised) difference between Americans and English, the optimisim of one versus the defeatism of the latter. Indeed, as I recall Kate Fox writing in Watching the English, there’s an Eeyorishness about …
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Classical music with shining eyes
As a passionate musician, I love things that remind me why. Often they are the same things — a talk, a book, a film or play — that introduce music to the masses, powerful yet accessible explications of the essence and bare truth of music. Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs is an example of that. And so is this talk from …
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