Most of the little I know about contemporary music I have learned from my teenage children. Recently, when I was driving my daughter, then aged 15, to a friend\’s house (if I had $1 for every time, I had done that, I could send her in a taxi…or in chauffeur-driven limo), we were listening to […]
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For my money Schindler\’s List is the Beethoven\’s Ninth Symphony of movie-making. Steve Spielberg has come a long way since Jaws and ET! If you haven\’t seen it, go with a friend you don\’t mind crying with, and with whom you can share the silence afterwards. You won\’t want to talk. The story of the
Freedom has been one of the grand obsessions of the Western world for 400 years. The roots of this passion go back further, of course, at least to the Greeks. But the love affair has heated up significantly since then, fuelled in turn by the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic movement. The
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