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Column: The things we find in the attic of our mind Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 2/16/2021 10:10:14 PM It’s a late winter morning, almost a year into the enforced isolation dictated by the pandemic. The alarm clock beeps in the twilight at 6 on the dot. Reaching my arm out from under the covers to shut it off reminds me how cold the room is. Wide awake, but still torpid, I hear r...

Saffron The name Saffron means yellow flower, and is also the name for the unique spice that comes from crocus stamens. It is both expensive and precious. Nori Comes from the Japanese, meaning “doctrine or seaweed”. In fact, many will associate it with the dried seaweed used to wrap sushi. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West call their daughter, North, ‘Nori’ as a cute nickname. Clementine Clementine, meaning “gentle” or “merciful”, of course bears the same name as the sweet orange fr...

Other leading actors who will be recording their favourite poems, sonnets or readings include Tim Bentinck (David Archer in The Archers), Caroline Quentin (Bridgerton) and Patricia Hodge (Miranda). Jazz singer Barb Jungr has recorded two versions of ‘Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair’. The readings, selected by the actors, include The Way of Love: Corinthians 13; To Celia by Ben Jonson; The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear; Wild Nights – Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson; Love�...

Last modified on Fri 5 Feb 2021 10.45 EST He is best known for sending an owl and a pussycat off to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. But before he ever took up a pen to write poetry, Edward Lear was an extremely well regarded natural history painter, whose lifelike portraits of birds and mammals were among the most sought-after scientific illustrations of his day. Now, a new paperback edition of The Natural History of Edward Lear, is seeking to reignite interest in Lear’s “important” w...

© Jeff Whyte/Shutterstock.com You haven’t had enough of notable paintings in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, even after reading about 10 of them in a different list? You’re in luck! The National Galleries are the Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Located in Edinburgh, they display art by a wide range of artists working over a long period of time; this list highlights five more paintings from th...

Jane Cornwell speaks to eco-minded composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake, whose interest in endangered species and enigmatic writers inspires works such as his new sophomore set, Wake Up Calls

No reader will be unfamiliar with a visitor who, without warning, may perch on the side of our bed in the small hours. The Stranger is faceless and nameless but we all know him. I call him Anxiety

"(Untitled)" picks a fight with its very title, which summarizes the f-you attitude of its hero, a composer of music that sounds like something youd hear going on in the alley late at night. One of his compositions consists of a chain dropped into a can, a pennywhistle, loudly ripping paper, a bucket being kicked, the screams of a vocalist and squawks on a clarinet. He plays the piano with his elbows. Under the circumstances, it seems ungracious for him to complain about an audience members cel...

Cat-erwauling... Quirijn de Lang as Tom Cat and Wallis Giunta as the Child in Opera North’s staging of L’Enfant et Les Sortilèges by Ravel. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian Is there a choral singer anywhere who doesn’t know Christopher Smart’s cat, Jeoffry? Smart’s feline companion is the subject of 74 enchanting lines of his visionary poem Jubilate Agno (1759-63), set to music by Benjamin Britten in his can...

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