ART CREATES ITS OWN SPACE

Sigrid´ ´s works were propped up against the wall or laid on desk tops but they stood up to be counted, too, and they shouted round corners. They created their own space. They made themselves seen and heard.
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Dexter and Maxine Gordon: SOPHISTICATED GIANTS

Maxne Gordon has ensured that ´the achingly painful, brutally honest voice´ of her late husband, Dexter, permeates the book´.
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OSCAR PETERSON: ´the man with four hands´.

Peterson was renowned for his remarkable speed and dexterity, meticulous and ornate technique, and dazzling, swinging style.

MY SON´S DAD´S MUSIC IS COOL AGAIN

Whether you hail from the innermost corner of one of America’s biggest metropolises or the same Appalachian foothills so eloquently described in the song, there’s just something undeniably comfortable about “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
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MAKING DARKNESS LIGHT: The Lives And Times Of John Milton

William Blake claimed Milton was ‘of the Devil’s party without knowing it’.

LANZAROTE ENSEMBLE: sharing Mahler´s Jubilation

This was no raucus dance of jubilation, though: not a flag waving triumphalism. This was the jubilation, it seemed to me, of the satisfaction of survival and a new-found freedom to move forward. It was a jubilation that carried memories of those lost along the way.

ONE, TWO, – ONE, TWO, THREE FOUR

reminded us of how much the timple can add to contemporary, guitar-led pop music. The two that, for tonight, had become three gave us ninety minutes of catchy songs full of chorus and hooks, with brilliant guitar by Yoriell and some fantastic lead lines from the timple

QUESTION TRADITION AND SURVIVE

Craig´´ Jenkins´ review, of Kasey Musgraves´ newly released album, Star-Crossed, lived up to the promise of that first sentence at the head of this piece, as he looked at her album, making sense of the lyrics and what they say about Kasey´s feelings at the time of writing them. Like all the great music writers, though, he then also looked at what the codes to live by that we might find in the album, where it is coming from with all the clutter of classification in the recording industry and media and how it will impact on all that.
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MARKET FORCES TO INDICATE RECOVERY

We recognize that to address the challenges that existed previously, and have been exacerbated by covid problems, markets around the world will need both a variety of vendors and committed weekly customers. We may well become ever more thankful if traders are committed to sustainable practices and to providing urban dwellers with freshly harvested and produced food items.

IF ANYONE CAN ROCK, M CLAN CAN

The two musicians strode on, centre-stage, and these ´kids´ erupted, whooping and hollering as if this were The Beatles at Shea Stadium, although I doubt that any of these patrons would understand that reference.