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TO SIR WITH LOVE, commendation and commemoration

Poitier´s 2000 memoir The Measure Of A Man, clearly shows that the actor realised his the strength of the platform his film work was building for him and from there he helped to awaken the world to the inequities of racial and colour prejudices.

CLASSICAL MUSIC ACROSS EIGHT ISLANDS

The middle section of the programme was perhaps my favourite. It never fails to amaze me that musicians and their instruments are able to follow sidetracks & detours through musical gneres and time periods. This section of the programme, vocally and instrumentally of runs and riffs I recalled from my UK folk club days more than fifty years ago. Manuel was at his most powerful and impressive with these songs and the relationship between tenor and players must be very secure to cover such a range of music.

GO YOUR OWN WAY

I could definitely relate to the whole vision created by Brian Wilson´s songs (left) . It wasn’t about the subject matter; it was about Brian’s musical genius. Those songs were part of our community; it was where I lived. Of course, romantic angst is timeless and universal,” said Lindsey Buckingham

AMERICANA ATTRACTIONS

notions of authenticity tend to be rooted in nostalgia
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THE DESIGNER OF YOUR LIFE

At a stage in the world´s orbit that sees our working environment and opportunities changing before our very eyes it is perhaps more vital than ever that those moving into the non-traditional workplace receive clearer guidance on how to create their own new self-support systems as the old ones begin to disappear.
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MUSIC IS THE THING CALLED LOVE

Peter Bogdanovitch may have made greater and more successful films than Thing Called Love, but the film and the soundtrack of that title formed a cornerstone on which stood so many of my song-writing heroes, introducing them to the UK for the first time. I have so many memories of people and places of that period of my life, and I can find them all quite easily, in a file tagged Thing Called Love. For that I will always be grateful to film producer and director Peter Bogdanovitch.
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OBSERVING ART from near and far

It should not be forgotten that in these last twelve months of covid crisis and confusion and conspiracy theories, there have been those, like Steve Cooke, calmly, but positively, assimilating and disseminating real arts news.

ALLISON RUSSELL: singer writer

Music was the last—Alzheimer’s couldn’t take it. She could sing every note.”

BIG STORM COMING,…one of these days

Steinar and Tom, collaboratively and individually, created music that, although it might still have many light years left to travel, will nevertheless continue, like all good music, will to find new pockets of audience.

McCARTNEY MUSES ON RADIO 4 PODCAST

´I was very intrigued by the work of Delia Derbyshire (left). She was a pioneer of electronic music, who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is probably best known for her work on Doctor Who.