The Moonlight Mandolin Orchestra with Daniela Rossi

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Festival Theatre, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, Saturday 23rd March 2019, doors open 7:30 p.m., concert starts at 8:00 p.m.

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Cambridge Publishing Society Networking Event, Thur 22nd Nov

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Cambridge Publishing Society has the pleasure of inviting you to a networking event on Thursday 22nd November, 18:30–20:30, in The Tram Depot, Dover Street, Cambridge, CB1 1DY.

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Graham Greene International Festival to celebrate 20th anniversary

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The Graham Greene International Festival is to celebrate its 20th anniversary on September 20‒23 this year.

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Scott Walker and Frank Sinatra

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I have been listening to Scott Walker recently, having strayed across some of his recordings of Jacques Brel’s songs. His voice seems to come from the depths ‒ literally, from somewhere beneath the surface of existence.

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19th Graham Greene International Festival 2017

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From its portrayal of razor gangs in 1930s Brighton to its depiction of the machinations of the CIA in 1950s Indochina, the work of the British novelist Graham Greene remains not only chillingly accurate but also enduringly relevant. Swap acid for cutthroat razors and the Middle East for the Far East, and Greene might almost be talking about our own times.

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Boccaccio and Dante: The miracle of free speech

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One of the many wonderful aspects of Boccaccio’s genius is his relationship with Dante. Bocaccio greatly admired Dante: he knew him, he wrote a biography of him, and he lectured on The Divine Comedy – becoming in the process the first person in the late Middle Ages to lecture formally on a contemporary author.

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The Loves of Mars and Venus:Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the birth of modern ballet, performed at Drury Lane Theatre in 1717

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Dance is arguably the most ephemeral of art forms, eternally of the moment and impossible to capture in its totality. From the late 19th century, it became possible to document it in photographs, and from the 20th century in film, but even footage of Rudolf Nureyev, Josephine Baker or Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in their pomp cannot quite render of power and brilliance that must have blazed forth from their every step when they danced live.

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Hearses

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Like regrets drifting through consciousness,
They glide through the streets of our cities,
Untouchably themselves,
Silently intent on their purpose,
Counting eternities with each corner they turn.

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Cities as ideas

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14 August 2017
Rome Airport
I am beginning to understand that great cities are always infinitely more than themselves. By this I do not mean simply that a city comprises its present existence together with all of its history: I mean, rather, that it comprises all these things plus all attempts, in the past as well as in the present, to imagine it differently – or, alternatively, to reconstruct its long-lost past.

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The Presence and the Absence of Rome

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The Presence and the Absence of Rome
My visit to Rome of October 2016, and this current one, seem to have completely reversed the negative impression I developed of the city in 1982, when I first visited it.

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