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THE IKARO QUARTET play Coldplay

The Ikaro Quartet, are a string quartet from Tenerife dedicated to the dissemination of classical and modern music in all its breadth
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THE IKARO QUARTET are part of the popular / classical  Zeitgeist

The hundreds of incoming e mails that drop into the sidetracks & detours each week present a pretty much accurate picture of what is happening on the arts  We can trace back to one off or isolated events and explore their growth into new likes and trends.
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ONCE MARMITE, COLDPLAY ARE NOW CAVIAR

A BBC on line article says that nowadays it is strange to recall a time when Coldplay were not ubiquitous.
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NEW OWNERS PERPETUATE LEGACY

Sir Ernest Hall didn´t simply buy a property here on Lanzarote and retire quietly. He bought a somewhat neglected and ramshackle old-fashioned Camel House and turned into a beautiful home surrounded by newly landscaped land. He converted a room into a magnificent sunset-trap and musical auditorium, with a 180 degree vista of the sea.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 73 weekly Supplement Sunday 27 10 2024

The poet, Mercedes Minguela, and the artist Claudia are hard working, talented people who not only create their own poetry and artwork but also create events and communities on Lanzarote who will notice it, and benefit from it. So, come follow you art.
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WRITER WRITING ON A WRITER

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a English novelist and biographer.
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BRUCE CHATWIN

Charles Bruce Chatwin FRSL (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945."
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ABORIGINAL SONGLINES

There is another, more grounded perhaps, definition of a songline, sometimes known as a dreaming track. These are amongst the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) within the animist belief systems of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia.
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LED ZEP’S MOST ICONIC SONGS,…

Em Casalina, writing recently in American Songwriter, picked three particular songs from the entire Led Zep catalogue as being cuts  that typify  the group and their attitude to their music, which she rightly reminds us,. is loaded with rich lore. but these three songs are particularly interesting. She then took a quick look at the lore behind three of Led Zeppelin’s most famous songs that every diehard fan should know!
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A CONCERT OF ANGELS AND DEMONS

Natalia played three of his sonatas, and these also carried Angels and Demons side by side, leaving the audience continually looking out for the demons and then being gathered back in by the angels, a theme Natalia´s style reflected throughout the rest of the evening.