Music review: exploring the aviary of the mind
New releases, of works old and new, that explore the expanse of human consciousness. Promises Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra album / 2021 / Luaka Bop Traversing jazz, electronica, and western classical music with transcendent grace, Promises well deserves the critical acclaim it received last year. The music is less easily […]
Barolo en primeur 2021
The wine auction’s debut event, Grinzane and NYC, raises money for charity
Pat & Sol
I had been anticipating, as I trundled over to Southbank and found my seat in the auditorium, something of an unconventional performance. I did not figure in bell slippers. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta chimed together as they hopped across the stage, embarking upon a warm and jaunty ‘Tambourin’ from Leclair’s Violin Sonata in C, […]
A Khmer Christmas
A different look at the country.
The Caribbeans in 70 days: Part Five
The Pitons, St Lucia Arriving at St Lucia truly marks one’s entrance into the tropics – the other Caribbean islands have a sort of tropical atmosphere and humidity to them, but it is on St Lucia that the rainforests and somewhat alien landscape appear. This volcanic island has only a 40% ratio of flat, useable […]
The Caribbeans in 70 days: Part Four
B Beyond visits the underdeveloped, luscious island of Dominica
The Caribbeans in 70 days: Part Three
St Barths and Saint-Martin again – with a twist…
The Caribbeans in 70 days: Part Two
Leaving behind the Spanish for the Dutch and French.
The Caribbeans in 70 days: Part One
Writer Charles Conway imagines himself a modern-day Columbus.
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