If you listen to classical music to relax you’re clearly not a Wagner fan. But surely there’s no one better to play us into the bank holiday with gusto than the composer of Ride of the Valkyries (think the helicopter raid, Apocalypse Now). The controversial composer turns 200 years old this week and The Barbican…
Edith Grossman is a luminary in the field of literary translation. She is one of the most highly thought of translators of Spanish into English and has translated the Latin American giants García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa; in 2003 her translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote became generally regarded as the definitive English…
When talking about Neko Case, people tend to focus on her strong and wonderfully expressive voice. And whilst it’s true that she has an amazing set of vocal chords and the talent to use them to great effect, it’s as a songwriter that she stands on her own. Over the course of six albums (and…
Experimental sound artist Raymond Delepierre kicks off a cultural programme at Rosenfeld Porcini with this innovative, cutting-edge multimedia performance. The first in a series of monthly events which are set to include performances, debates and conferences, the inaugural event at the Rathbone Place venue is exciting as they come. Consisting of four segments of 15-minute…
It’s taken three short years for alternative supper clubs to have gone from rare-as-hens-teeth oddities to commonplace nights’ out as eating out increasingly becomes the new clubbing (for us older types that is – I know for you whippersnappers clubbing is the new clubbing). It means that for us to feature one of these events…
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