Das Experiment
Although no great fan of art house movies, I make an exception for Das Experiment, which was on BBC4 last night (although I confess that I’d watch anything with Moritz…
Le Ciel par-dessus le toit
A beautiful evening in Tooting. Whenever I see a sky like this, I think of Verlaine’s poem Le ciel par-dessus le toit .
Magic and Mazurkaphobia
You’d think I made it up, wouldn’t you? Well I didn’t. Taming a Tartar; or, Magic & mazourkaphobia, “an operatic, romantic, magical, semi-burlesque, terpsichorean burletta, in two acts, founded on…
History of a song & Vejvodova Zbraslav
Amazing what you can turn up from a simple question. Is Roll Out the Barrel still in copyright? Like me, you may have thought it was one of those diehard…