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The American pianist and entertainer Liberace (1919-1987) was famous for … well … er … apart from being Liberace, making a spectacle of himself and being a showy but – many highbrow critics alleged – pretty average to useless piano player and an increasing butt of [...]

April 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

The pressure ramps up

We may all be going a bit nuts at the moment this far into the lockdown but – when I rose for my day-shift this morning and fired up my computer – it seemed as if somehow in the period between 8.45pm last night and the present the world had suddenly shot forward about four days, such [...]

April 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Who Do You Think I Am?

This is the latest Juliette Binoche film set in social media and the fantasy relationships it can generate. Juliette Binoche plays Clare Milaud, a fifty something professor of French literature. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her lover Ludo rejects her, she tries a new [...]

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Pasta Evangelist

We restaurant critics are a redundant breed. What I would give for those expensive wine lists and entrees I have panned. A friend of mine recommended an acceptable substitute. It’s a food delivery company called Pasta Evangelist. They change the menu every week, you order fresh pasta and [...]

April 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Trace Elements/Donna Leon

Donna Leon is an American crime writer who has spent much of her life in Venice and now lives in Switzerland. She has written several detective novels set in Venice  featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti and this is the latest. A woman is dying of cancer in a hospice and confides her husband’s [...]

April 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Poirot

On the Rust many of us have our pet television programmes to see us through lockdown. Ivan dotes on University Challenge where tonight the semi-final is contested. I am watching Poirot faithfully every weekday evening on ITV3. My late mother was a devotee but I cannot recall watching the series [...]

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Virtual reality v actuality

I would like to start a new Rust debate of virtual reality, which I will call virtuality, against actuality. In a recent article in The Spectator Martin Gayford considered this as museum and art galleries shut down, then offered the possibility of viewing their art on line. He felt a photograph of [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cosi Fan Tutte/streamed from Royal Opera House

As part of the collective arts effort to continue to operate in the face of social distancing and then the lockdown, the Royal Opera House are streaming opera on Friday night. Last night was Cosi Fan Tutte, the last co-operation of Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Ponte. Opera goers and lovers [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Back in the day …

In the past I have joked that I have listened to – or should that be “noticed in any real sense”(?) – very little new music since about 1984 so today Rusters should perhaps prepare themselves to be taken back to the halcyon days of the 1960s and maybe just a little beyond. [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Private Passions (Radio 3)

Desert Island Discs has declined in presentation and appeal yet the idea of a subject  talking about himself/herself accompanied by a choice of music is a clever one. Roy Plomley envisioned the programme as a music one. He would discuss the choice over lunch with the castaway at his club, even [...]

April 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

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