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Christopher Hawtree

@chrishawtree

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Described by Salman Rushdie as excellently witty, I write in various places https://t.co/d8KByjhj3B… https://t.co/DjdPgUwgfA

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Joined April 2007
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Christopher Hawtree
22 days
To the announcement yesterday evening of @BPO_orchestra's autumn/winter season, which has many pleasingly unexpected items. Be sure to book (open to the public a week today). Yesterday's convivial gathering, with Joanna MacGregor, included percussionists and Reich's "Clapping".
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JOIE DE VIVRE. A note on the glorious film Love Me Tonight (1932) for which Rodgers and Hart wrote the songs. It should be better known.
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To the Barn Theatre in Southwick for the opening of its production of Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train which I had only seen as the 1941 film and as inspiration for Will Hay's Oh! Mr Porter (1937). The 1925 play has its own brio: it speeds up, rather like a train. A great time.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
At the gym somebody mentioned the virtues of apple cider vinegar - especially with the Oedipal ingredient known as "mother".
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
RT @AdamCSharp: “Desire paths” are trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route somewhere. The people (A….
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2 months
A remarkable article about a terrible crime. This reconstruction should be available on the NHS rather than crowdfunded. @Brunswick_Green @TheGreenParty.
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Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
The man in headphones is protected from the noise he makes with a crisp packet.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
To @TownerGallery paintings and other work gathered as Sussex Modernism. A good number of late-Twenties views of the sea from Portslade by David Jones. I did not know Lee Miller's photograph of Saul Steinberg posed, his pen seeming to draw Long Man of Wilmington on the hill.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
To @nvt_brighton for its sold-out run of the Richard Eyre take on Ibsen's Ghosts, which made me gasp all the more: it turned out to be acting debut of @robshepherd who was as good as the rest of the excellent cast. Shall catch up with the disc of Judi Dench in it.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
To a congenial Walrus pub in Brighton for @CohenBobbycoco in James Callas Ball's new, three-hander play The Flat Earthers set in a pub. Wittily humane, its meeting of conspiracy theorists will surely be seen around, I mean across the world - even in Hove, subject of a running gag.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
On returning from Anoushka Shankar's concert there was time for Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup which Mussolini banned. I shouldn't be surprised if Trump does so, for it has sport with thr subject of. tafiffs. And its overarching subject of war is as potent as ever.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
To @brightdome for Anoushka Shankar's very enjoyable New Dawn sitar concert with multi-instrumentist jazz trio who had to speak on her behalf because she had lost her voice after joining a Festival audience in Yoko Ono's participatory "Scream".
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
2/2 I said that the often-wordless chorus - three choirs - was the best part. I suspect that was not her favourite piece to sing - next, she said, is Duruflé.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
To @brightdome for @LPOrchestra concert including John Luther Adams's Vespers for the Blessed Earth. Much talk in all quarters about it: agreement that, ironically, it wasted the resources - talk among eight on the 'bus overheard by somebody who said she was in the chorus. 1/2.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
How could anybody set store by what footballer Gary Lineker has to say when he promotes ultra-processed @WalkersCrisps?.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
Successive evenings @brightdome. First, @londonsymphony Leila Josefowicz rousing in Stravinsky's violin concerto; second, @CastalianQtet joined by @ShekuKM who, solo, played the Suite by Natalie Klouda - as marvellously varied as Schubert quintet D956. @Brunswick_Green @ShanksSue.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
MOG AND THE KITTEN. A note on Ecstasy (1933).
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
I have been looking at the two late-Fifties volumes by @RCAF_ARC combined by @PenguinUKBooks as Physical Fitness (1964). A diagram shows that a well-exercised body is more efficient than a petrol engine.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
I had to give up on the film Gravity after fifteen minutes. Not a patch on Speed.
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Christopher Hawtree
2 months
I mean: Nayeb.
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