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The Tanner Report/Don Giovanni and a Derby win

Our editor is always keen that contributors from sport comment on artistic performance and vice versa. There used to be a music critic called Hans Keller much parodied by Private Eye who was a massive Spurs fan and these days David Mellor will go to Stamford Bridge as often as the Royal Festival [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hell and Good Company/ Richard Rhodes; Land and Freedom

One of the things I  enjoy most about the Rust is the access to the knowledge of my colleagues and friends there. I have enjoyed researching into the Spanish Civil War. I asked our historian on warfare Henry Elkins for a more anecdotal historical account than the heavyweight Hugh Thomas, Paul [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities/ Theatre Royal Brighton

This season the Theatre Royal have dramatised 4 well known novels: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Room With a View,  A Tale of Two Cities and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It’s a challenge to set one art genre, the literary one, on another (the theatrical), but in this superb production [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Concert at Brighton Dome/ the London Philarmonic

Before I review this concert which was chiefly the work of Jean Sibelius, I would like to add my ha’pporth to the continuing debate of attendance v stay at home in the context of a classical music. The argument might be that it is preferable to stay in and enjoy the same pieces on a state of [...]

October 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ Theatre Royal

To dramatise on stage a much loved enduring film is an ambitious task and in this case a failed one. My theatre companion a schoolteacher but capable theatre director put his finger on it with his words after curtain call “There is big hole in the centre”.  The leading role was played [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Madama Butterfly/Glyndebourne on tour

There are two types of annual production at Glyndebourne: the main festival where you have all the trimmings of black tie formality, picnics in the gardens and tickets that go up to £250 or the tour with younger talent, less formality and tickets about 25% of the festival. Not that the tour is a [...]

October 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Paris Spring/James Naughtie

Jim Naughtie is a versatile man. He has been a leading radio broadcaster for many years presenting the flagship Today programme, written a work on opera and hosted the BBC book club. At such an event I met him and  found him to be affable and engaging. As a keen reader of the espionage genre I [...]

October 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of coming up smelling of roses

Back in the day when I was a kid at boarding prep school our access to television was restricted to the whim of a bachelor assistant headmaster, who’d previously been in the navy, who used to operate an ‘open house’ on Saturday afternoons in his disorganised study which gave off a ‘twenty [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Shakespeare news

‘As any fule no’ [the classic Molesworth quote – from the legendary spoof books first written in 1953 by Geoffrey Willans, illustrated by Ronald Searle] 23rd April this year was widely marked as the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. While some may seek to argue as to whether [...]

October 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The passing of time

I guess it was about the age of sixty that I finally ‘grew up’ and deliberately decided to embrace old age. It seemed a sensible move when the alternative was to become an embarrassment to myself – i.e. by my ever-decreasingly successful attempts to try to hold my paunch in; fighting a losing [...]

October 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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