Sunday, January 30, 2022

Saariaho's La Passion de Simone

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It's a comment both on current availability and prevailing mentality that I choose to write a piece about a television experience, albei...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan

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Ostensibly, The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan is a book for children. It ’ s not really a novel, because the author himself conceived these piece...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update – Orquesta de Valencia under Trigueros and guitarists in Alicante

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Two concerts in five days might sound quite a lot, but we achieved that by skipping the others on offer. But could one imagine two more diff...

Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust

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  Times change. Of that there is no doubt. Platitudes, however, remain platitudes whenever they are, like a dose of vaccine, rolled out. The...
Monday, January 24, 2022

According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

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On the surface, According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge might appear to be firmly rooted in the genre of historical fiction. Its cover port...
Friday, January 21, 2022

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

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  In a turn of uncharacteristic succinctness, Gioachino Rossini, himself the composer of long-winded and often empty vocal gymnastics undert...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

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  Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a monumental achievement. Its scope is vast, its size is daunting, its scholarship and vision bot...