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Book Review: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the third of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.
Read the full story..Ode to Joy…thanks to the BBC Philharmonic
The BBC Philharmonic knows what it’s doing. It got its new season off to a flying start with a thundering display of power, passion and precision.
Read the full story..The Hallé Orchestra kicks off its new season in spectacular style
The Hallé began its new season in fine style with the kind of skilful and passionate performance that is the hallmark of this fine musical institution.
Read the full story..Promenading with the Hallé
Last month as soft, warm, summer rain fell on a Saturday evening in Manchester, a packed Bridgewater Hall was able to transcend the meteorological treachery and escape into an English rural idyll.
Read the full story..The Prison of Art: the Dutch, the Nazis and the Monuments Men
This is a story about art and how it was that two very different governments – the totalitarian Nazis and the liberal post war Dutch – came to imprison it, and for very different reasons.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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- Book Review: Lairies by Steve Hollyman
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