Hmm. Ominous silence from Putin’s St Petersburg, cradle of the October Revolution, in its centenary month. Well at least the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra was making plenty of noise in absentia as it blasted Russian music out...
Read MoreThe secret of good timing is comedy, as the saying doesn’t go. This re-run of Cabaret – thematically about the rise of nothing-goes fascism in an anything-goes 1930s Berlin – is painfully well-timed, and just about the...
Read MoreYou can tell a good singer by the way they sing out of tune. There’s something about the voice of Emily Barker, purveyor of those haunting, desolate cadences on the Wallander theme song Nostalgia, that makes you want her around...
Read More“Readers! Readers! Readers!” chanted a legion of rafter-shaking music fans at Manchester’s Albert Hall, a former Methodist hall and chapel just down the road from the city’s Central Library. Then The Slow Readers Club appeared...
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