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The Noise of Time/ Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes does not so much wear his scholarship lightly as hit you over the head with it. I only recently finished his essays on art.  Here he writes in the same didactic tone on the life of Dmitri Shostakovich.  This is not to condemn the book. It is especially good on the fate of the [...]

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well somebody’s gotta do it …

I don’t know why, particularly – but this piece by Adam Sherwin, spotted today on the website of The Independent, caught my eye today and I thought I’d share it with fellow Rust readers as we chart the passage of time both in the world and our own personal lives: See here – [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hang on a minute, folks!

One ‘it goes with the territory’ minus of being over the age of thirty and being frustrated with some aspect of modern life is that you tend to get dismissed as being an out of touch oldie. I must declare an interest here – I’ve noticed the syndrome, both with my parents and in myself, [...]

February 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

From Me To You

The title of being ‘the greatest band in popular music’ is a complicated one to award because – inevitably, at some point – subjectivity in the eyes of the beholder (or listener) comes into it: are we talking ‘empirically greatest’, or ‘my favourite ever’? Maybe there’s a [...]

February 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Cote restaurant and London Philharmonic

You are unlikely to read a review of Cote in the columns of the serious foodies. Like Ken Howard, Terence Rattigan and Daphne du Maurier – all extolled in this organ – Cote suffers for its popularity. Yet if offers seriously good food at a reasonable price and this is why it is packed. [...]

January 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I had just got up yesterday, nipped across the road to buy my newspapers and returned to make a cup of tea when – switching the BBC1 morning show on the television – I first caught the news about the passing of rock star David Bowie. For the rest of the day it seemed as if the UK airwaves had [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

French concert at Dome Brighton

It was pure coincidence that several months ago I bought a ticket for the London Philarmonic recital of three French composers at the Brighton Dome. The pieces were Pelleas et Melissande by Faure, a piano concerto in G Major and waltzes by Ravel and Debussy’s La Mer. The conductor Robin [...]

November 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

John Wilson Orchestra/ Brighton Dome

There is an awful lot of snobbery in music, not least in its classification of classical, light orchestral and pop. Occasionally you read the the Beatles produced the classical music of our generation or that if Puccini or Verdi were composing nowadays they would be producing musicals. One [...]

November 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Magic of Motown/ Theatre Royal Brighton

I don’t really enjoy nor appreciate tribute bands and rock musicals so I was apprehensive last night about The Magic of Motown. It was a dedication to the great Motown artists of the sixties and seventies, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and Gladys Knight. Six black [...]

October 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nooooooooooooooo!

I hate it whenever one of the ‘temples of eternal truths’ of one’s youth is proved to have been built upon sand. It may only have been about ten years ago that I first learned that actress Diana Copeland – perhaps best remembered as Sid James’ long-suffering wife in [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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