The Bachelors: We Are All Abigail At This Point I cannot hear the term "open relationship" on this show again. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 24, 2023
Cate Blanchett’s Tár is an abusive boss, but her story has much to tell us about feminism too Beyond the superficial row, there is a debate to be had about progress, pitfalls, and a character who seems emblematic of her generation, says psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2023
The Bachelors Recap: I Have That Feeling Like When You Almost Orgasm But Then You Don’t That was... weird. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 23, 2023
Yunchan Lim at the Wigmore Hall review: this 18 year-old could be the Lang Lang of his generation We’re at the start of something special, and the audience knew it Evening Standard · Jan 19, 2023
Monstrous maestro: why is Cate Blanchett’s cancel culture film Tár angering so many people? Despite glowing reviews, Todd Field’s drama about a predatory conductor has struggled at the box office. Is this because its protagonist is an unlikeable woman? The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2023
The Bachelors Recap: Bow Down To Yuri, Queen Of Our Fuckboy-Crushed Hearts Adore. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 15, 2023
The Bachelors Recap: We Must Protect This Sweet Polyamorous Angel At All Costs SHE IS TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 11, 2023
The Bachelors Recap: The Fuckboy Demon Has Now Possessed Felix, King Of The Root Rats We can't believe it. Pedestrian.tv · Jan 10, 2023
Yikes: A Bunch Of Bachie Babes Have Already Been Outed As Secret Actors Wannabe Influencers Thought they looked familiar... Pedestrian.tv · Jan 10, 2023
Feed your soul: the 31-day classical music diet for January From gentle awakening to explosive fanfare, duelling pianos to one chill lone voice, expand your horizons with a month’s worth of classical ear-openers The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2023
Rob Rinder: Joy! I’m starring in a panto, where my love for all that glitters started I’m often the victim of a terrible misunderstanding: people who hear me talk think I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, growing up in some swanky pile where we spoke French at teatime while Grandma played Bach on the harpsichord. Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2022
Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss? The tech giant’s flawed business model for its popular smart devices has cost the company a fortune and thousands of jobs The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2022
The week in classical: Teyber Trio; Quartet for the End of Time; King’s Singers Intimate Messiaen, vocal fireworks and a rare string trio version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations light up a week of more funding cuts fallout The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2022
Classical home listening: Mutter and Ferrández play Brahms; Ruby Hughes sings Huw Watkins Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández excel in the Double Concerto while Hughes soars in Watkins’s song cycle Echo The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2022
The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022 Q&A: Todd Field and Cate Blanchett go deeper into ‘Tár’ When Cate Blanchett stepped out of her first screening for “Tár,” she wanted to immediately go back and watch it again
Chicago Tribune · Oct 24, 2022 Behind the scenes at Nachusa Grasslands, where animals from mice to bison find stability On a hilltop about 95 miles west of Chicago grow plant species that have been there for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The soil is sandy, so when the surrounding lowlands were used for agriculture, the hill remained untouched. From that vantage point, Nachusa Grasslands sprawls below with sections…
Chicago Tribune · Oct 20, 2022 So how well does Cate Blanchett handle a baton? A couple of critics hash out the personalities and classical music in ‘Tár’ CHICAGO — The new Cate Blanchett film “Tár” is no issue movie. It has, however, brought a lot of rarified and/or unfashionable issues back into the spotlight: symphony orchestra politics; the cost of obsessive artistic ambition and devotion to a calling; and, for writer-director Todd Field, the challenge and allure…
Los Angeles Times · Oct 7, 2022 Review: Cate Blanchett is at the peak of her powers in 'Tár,' a magnificent cinematic symphony It's not until an hour into "Tár" that we see the title character — a classical conductor known the world over as Lydia Tár and played by an unimprovable Cate Blanchett — do what she was born to do. It's an astonishing performance nestled inside another: In one shot, Lydia…
Pedestrian.tv · Sep 22, 2022 Matty J Chats About His 1st Film Role In Stan’s Christmas Ransom The Current State Of Bachie Hello, Christmas.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022 Lars Vogt obituary German pianist and conductor who brought exceptional sensitivity and lyricism to his performances
The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022 The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988; Nureyev: Legend and Legacy review – making sound visible Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker creates a revelatory response to Bach, while a gala celebrating the dance legend is full of bravura dancing
The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022 The Goldberg Variations review – De Keersmaeker’s strange and sober journey into Bach The Belgian choreographer’s interpretation of the great keyboard work is a rich, carefully crafted essay
The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022 ‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’ Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble
The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2022 The week in classical: The Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Nathan Laube at the Proms Jamie Barton and Allan Clayton lead a dream Gerontius in a week of choral epics at the Proms. Elsewhere, deep listening and silence…
The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022 Long Covid has kept up to four million Americans from the workforce Lingering effects of virus costing workers around $170bn per year in lost wages, Brookings Institute says