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Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Our critics each choose a favourite recording from the past 12 months. If you’re after the perfect gift guide for Christmas, look no further! Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited ac...

 Professor emeritus of English Literature Martin Hilský is one of the country’s most prominent translators of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets into Czech. In 2011, his translations were published in a single volume The Complete Works ( Dílo). Now, Academia has followed up with Shakespeare’s England: Portrait of an Age. It is a fascinating and extensively researched book that should give readers an even deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s work. How did writing and preparing th...

For Your Reading Pleasure Featuring Books for Film/TV Buffs, Music Fans, Kids, and More Dec 20, 2020 By Mark Redfern Photography by Mark Redfern and Wendy Lynch Redfern Christmas might be almost upon us, but there’s still time to head out to your local bookstore (where it’s safe) or take advantage of two-day shipping online. For the sixth installment of our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide we present some good reads that might be worth giving or picking up for yourself in the after Christmas s...

Wilbury Theatre Rhode Island Commerce announced the awarding of grants through the state’s hospitality, arts and tourism (HArT) relief program. The awards consisted of $4.7 million to 62 arts and tourism organizations for Engagement, Service, and Resiliency (“ESR”) activities. In addition to ESR funds, the HArT program has also awarded 40 organizations direct support grants totaling $8 million. Combined with the first round of awards, the total amount granted by the HArT program totals...

At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang—the director and actors returned to the stage for a dialogue with the Beijing audience. The questions ran the normal gamut from accents to costumes to staging, and then one woman asked which Shakespeare the Gang planned to perform next. The affable Robbins turned the question around, asking what she would li...

Austin 360 Austin360 On The Record is a weekly roundup of new, recent and upcoming releases by local and Austin-associated recording artists. OUT THIS WEEK Joe King Carrasco y Colectivo Chihuahua, “Mariachi Blues” (Anaconda). The latest from the onetime nuevo-wavo MTV star is his first album since 2015’s “Chiliando,” and it’s an intriguing change of pace. There’s less Tex-Mex synthesis here, and more straight-ahead bluesy, guitar-based rock & roll. Recorded at studios in France, M...

If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more. A good coffee table book serves as a decor piece, is filled with stunning images, and entertains guests. Weve compiled a list of 32 coffee table books that will make great gifts for everyone in your life. Unlike the dog-eared, beaten-down tomes inhabiting the bookshelves of a home, coffee table books are a more refined species. They have license over the prime tabletop real estate, and are typically used as bot...

All music by Thomas Tallis used with permission of the artists and labels listed below. As a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) composed sacred music for four successive English monarchs, starting with Henry VIII and ending with Elizabeth. Those were turbulent times in England, especially for a church musician. Like his colleague (and probable pupil) William Byrd, Tallis was able to adapt his compositional style to meet the constantly shifting ideological demands of the re...

Poetry Daily,  and elsewhere. Matty is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he is pursuing a PhD in English. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of  Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator. INTRODUCTION Write patiently and read generously. The sustainable poet quickly learns patience, whether that be in the writing process and the arc of an individual poem or the hellscape that is the submissions process. As a young writer, I allowed my ...

Getting Creative How arts, culture and entertainment will evolve as they recover from the pandemic — and how they will help society heal. Emily Shur “Culture gives us a way to properly grieve that the daily news cannot give us,” says Peter Sellars, distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. John Harlow | Photography by Emily Shur | December 10, 2020 In the forthcoming movie Songbird, Hollywood producer Michael Bay flashes forward to Los An...