Institutional Racism & Swanilda’s Friends
Another day at the University of London Library , this time, to retrieve some dances from Tchaikovsky’s opera Cherevichki which were used in Cranko’s Onegin. I only know that because…
Shock horror – academics increasingly using blogs!
From the BBC news site: “Academics give lessons on Blogs“. That’s news is it? If there’s anything newsworthy in there at all, it’s that academics (not students, of course, who’ve…
Wolfram Fleischhauer
As I’m currently enthralled, entranced, lost & totally wrapped up in the world of Wolfram Fleischhauer’s novel Die Frau mit den Regenhänden, I was delighted to find that there is…
Tooting and the wonder of Dadu’s
As one of the things that makes Upper Tooting an earthly paradise is its freedom from supermarkets from the Bec to the Broadway, I thought I’d give a friendly push…
The wonderful voice of Oleg Pogudin
In my search for the authors of Dorogoi Dlinnoyu (see last entry) I have listened to scores of different recordings, and discovered that Aleksandr Vertinskii wrote some of the most…