The News Review:
- The Japanese knotweed of festivals
- Erotic festival at Wookey Hole
- … Choir/rchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / Gardiner…
- South Asian Film Festival in capital
The Japanese knotweed of festivals
BBC News – Oct 31, 2007
Making demands with menaces. And sugar bingeing. It’s against every rule in the parent handbook but to children Halloween means just one thing: trick or treating. Sean Coughlan reports.
Erotic festival at Wookey Hole
guardian.co.uk – Oct 31, 2007
Somerset may be about to earn the title of Britain’s sauciest county: it is to host the first ever British erotic film festival next June. The brainchild of hotelier Martin Miller the weekend-long festival will feature screenings of erotic films shorts and animations to be shown in marquees in the gardens of Miller’s hotel Glencot House in Wookey Hole. The films will be chosen by a committee headed by the former editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling. Those wishing to suggest films can visit.
… Choir/rchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / Gardiner…
Independent – Oct 31, 2007
Ultimately our main interest is in what Brahms can sound like in our day. It was unfortunate therefore that his reading of Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem often sounded – in the current phase of tinkering with the Royal Festival Hall acoustics – harsh and edgy to the point of discomfort. Nor did the period instruments of the rchestre R?lutionnaire et Romantique always serve to clarify Brahms’s dense textures though their thinner tonal qualities mercilessly exposed minor infelicities of intonation. That said this concert unfolded as part of an interesting and well-planned project: to re-examine Brahms’s style in the light of the early music that he studied so assiduously. Accordingly the Monteverdi Choir gave us a lucid account of Sch?s psalm “Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen” and Sir John directed a lively performance of Bach’s Cantata No 60 Ewigkeit du Donnerwort both of them evidently well-known to Brahms. We also heard an early Brahms rarity that very much belonged to their tradition: the “Begräbnisgesang” (Burial Song) p 13 – a darkly impressive chorale-march for chorus and wind band that should be programmed more often.
South Asian Film Festival in capital
Times of India – Oct 31, 2007
And when famousPakistani actress Reema Khan walked in she upped the excitement with her adaandandaaz CINEMAN A GRANDER SCALE: At the SouthAsian Film Festival that took place in Delhi there were not only Indian filmactors directors and producers but also those from Pakistan BangladeshBhutan Nepal Srilanka Afghanistan and Maldives. THESTART: n day one Kapil Sibal formallyannounced the festival open. And when famous Pakistani actress Reema Khan walkedin she upped the excitement with her ada and andaaz. Director Shahzad Rafiq?s film MohabbataanSachiyaan will be released in India afterforty years to be run in all theatres. Rafiq said ?Yeh silsilaytoh ab chalte rahenge. This is just thebeginning.