Blog – All Across the Arts

E-MAILS, INCOMING, OF MUSIC AND ART

Somehow I feel sure Margaret will make her way down to the ´loyal friends and front row dancers´ at The Flamenco gig and will hitch her skirt, stamp her feet and click her castanets and call out ´Let the music play´.

culture and tradition

NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

Before midnight select twelve grapes per person off the bunch and place in a plastic cup. If you haven’t bought seedless grapes, cut and extract the seeds. The challenge is to eat one grape per bong of midnight!

Music

THIS GENIUS OF SONG: John Prine

THIS GENIUS OF SONG John Prine, American song-writer with American SongWriter. by Norman Warwick A new John Prine tribute album (see our cover picture above), Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2, out released…

cinema

Michael Sheen ECHOING INTERESTING TIMES

“That’s all you read about now. For every column that’s about cancel culture, there’s one fewer for real dangers and unfairnesses

cinema, Music

TIMELESS TALE FOR A NEW GENERATION

Mr. Spielberg has paid all due reverence to the original West Side Story and yet has taken some daring moves, too. His film certainly will serve as a lasting legacy for Stephen Sondheim´s lyrics and musicality.

Music

GRAHAM NASH framing photographs in new book

Graham’s ability to see beauty in ordinary settings is another key to the work. “Look at the composition of this microphone on this chair,” Graham says, pointing to my mediocre audio cabling work off-camera. ”I know that I could take a picture of that and show it to you, and you’d go, ‘How cool is that?!’ I see differently, and I hear differently.”

Music

JAMES TAYLOR TALKING America Standards with American Songwriter

After Taylor took Carol King´s You´ve Got A Friend to the top of the charts he became one of the most beloved and top-selling recording artists of all time, selling more than 100 million records. Since then, he’s written his own songbook of greatness over the decades. But he’s also recorded classic songs by others, always with that soulful touch.

Music

DECEMBER DELIGHTS AND TIMPLE TREATS

To conclude the arts offer in a year when Time seemed to stand still in fear of covid, Los Sabendos, in a setting somehow both prehistoric and futuristic brought together the ancient and modern, the past and the present, and therein offered hope for the future.

culture and tradition, sidetracks and detours, Uncategorised

XMAS PRESENTS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST

The months between the New Year of 1871 and that of 1872 were lived against the backdrop of the Franco- Prussian War (July 1870 – to the Armistice of the following January of 1871) and the building of Royton’s first limited liability cotton spinning mill also of July 1871.