Wilde Cat“It requires some effort of analysis to understand why one person, among many who do a thing with accomplished skill, should be greater than the others; nor is it always easy to distinguish superiority from great popularity, when the two go together” begins TS Eliot’s appreciation of the great Music Hall artist Marie Lloyd. After seeing the Cabaret Diva Meow Meow in the extravaganza devised for her alone, I am left pondering the same question. The Viennese sängerin Ute Lemper (who unearthed Mischa Spolianksy’s Cabaret song Ich bin Ein Vamp now taken up by Meow as her theme song) ...
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hopeThrough the Looking Glass. Chapter 9Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, along with his other non-academic writings (as an academic and under his real name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, he published mathematics and logic treatises) seemed to escaped operatic settings until quite recently. A 'Musical Dream Play' appeared as early as 1888 but apart from small scaled adaptations for school and amateur performance major English composers left ...
Two Touches of VenusShakespeare's poem is one of his earliest works. Venus is the Roman incarnation of the Goddess of love. Adonis was the both the Greek and Roman incarnation of youthful male beauty and virility. Shakespeare's poem takes the episode when Venus falls in love with Adonis and detaining from a hunt, seduces him but is unable to make him return her love. She begs him to return the following day but at dawn, hearing the pack hounds run wild, she searches for him only to discover him killed by a wild boar. Gardens and forests featured in the ...
