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  • 4 days ago | msn.com | Ivan Hewett

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ivan Hewett

    Elgar Festival/Worcester Cathedral ★★★★☆These are hard times for classical music festivals, but the Elgar Festival founded in 2018 by the Worcester City Council is thriving. This concert from the English Symphony Orchestra closed its most ambitious programme yet, and the cathedral was full to bursting. It just goes to show that local pride (Elgar was born in nearby Broadheath) still counts for something.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ivan Hewett

    After the bright daylight and saucy flirtations of Garsington Opera’s season-opener The Elixir of Love, their second night plunged us into romantic despair and mad obsession, with a strong whiff of sulphur. The titular Queen of Spades in Tchaikovsky’s great opera is an elderly Russian countess who has the secret for winning cards, but it’s a secret that will bring death to anyone who learns it. For the opera’s bitter anti-hero Herman the way to that secret lies through the Countess’s niece Lisa.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ivan Hewett

    After the bright daylight and saucy flirtations of Garsington Opera's season-opener The Elixir of Love, their second night plunged us into romantic despair and mad obsession, with a strong whiff of sulphur. The titular Queen of Spades in Tchaikovsky's great opera is an elderly Russian countess who has the secret for winning cards, but it's a secret that will bring death to anyone who learns it. For the opera's bitter anti-hero Herman the way to that secret lies through the Countess's niece Lisa.

  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Ivan Hewett

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

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Ivan Hewett
Ivan Hewett @ivanhewett
3 May 25

Every time AI pops up uninvited to enlighten me on something I am astounded at how bad it is. Here is this morning’s gem; ‘Several Ballet Russes ballets can be described as neo-classical, including Apollo, The Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite of Spring’.

Ivan Hewett
Ivan Hewett @ivanhewett
30 Apr 25

Is Alibhai-Brown really as naive as this suggests? Or is just faux-naiveté?

Yasmin alibhai-brown
Yasmin alibhai-brown @y_alibhai

The solemn British paper, @telegraph runs a non-story about a train co painting a train in vivid, joyful colours. Quotes moany right wingers. Yeah. GB will roll over and die if a train is painted bright. How dull and small their world is.

Ivan Hewett
Ivan Hewett @ivanhewett
28 Apr 25

staggering all-Schumann concert last night. So many masterpieces one after another. An immersion in a whole world of feeling. https://t.co/h0gC0edejy