mon 07/07/2025

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Extract: Tim Lawrence's Hold On To Your Dreams

Arthur Russell, 5 April 1991.

Linked to Joe Muggs' interview with Tim Lawrence on theartsdesk, this is extracted from the introduction of Hold On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992. Arthur Russell hailed from the Midwest, yet felt at home in...

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Carlos Acosta, Sadler's Wells

It‘s when you see how popstar fame can reach people with more luck than work that Carlos Acosta’s achievement in becoming a truly popular ballet star is underlined. Ballet is just the toughest discipline there is. Great elite artists and great...

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Schnittke Festival finale, Jurowski, RFH

Eliot's "time future contained in time past" has been conductor Vladimir Jurowski's unofficial motto throughout a festival which has had to take itself very seriously, and managed miraculously to carry a surprisingly large, loyal audience...

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Agon/ Sphinx/ Limen, Royal Ballet

Extraordinary lives dancers lead at Covent Garden - in a single day rushing between studios to rehearse the tortured, introspective Mayerling, the pristine classicism of The Sleeping Beauty, the off-centre acrobatics of Balanchine’s Agon and the...

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