“Those who know music create it, those who know less teach it, those who know less still organise it, and those who know nothing criticise it.” Luciano Pavarotti. Macu Gavilán Rumour has it that critics feel a secret, almost sexual pleasure when they find the work they’re analysing […]
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Fifty years watching the girl from Ipanema
The “Girl from Ipanema” allowed one of the smoothest and most influential styles of Latin-American music to go global: the bossa nova. It is the 50 year anniversary of the creation of the song.– – Miriam Valero – It was the summer of 1962 in Río de Janeiro. At the […]
Covent Garden’s seven lives
Originating as a small settlement on the outskirts of Londinium, later abandoned and turned into an orchard and vegetable garden, then it became the biggest market in the city and, centuries after that, was rebuilt and rose to be one of the most vibrant parts of the British capital. Its […]
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