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Anita Brookner's one-woman antidote
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THE BAY OF ANGELS by Anita Brookner (Viking, 16.99)
ANITA Brookner has brought forth a new novel, her 20th, and guess
what? It's about a lonely woman who is rejected by men, who knows
that she will never marry and have children and doesn't, and who
lives a tidy, orderly, scholarly life which is no less tidy and
orderly for being punctuated by occasional affairs. Her mother dies,
but apart from that, nothing much happens. If you want to judge the
book, start with the cover: it's a black and white, rather artistic
photograph of a cobbled passageway in some French provincial town
(the Bay of ...
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Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES Henry Lawes: Cavalier Songwriter. By Ian...some 430 songs to his credit, Henry Lawes was by far the most important and...Evans, was published in 1941 (Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets...
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Respect from the barrel of a gun Henry Lawes, shot dead in a London street, is the latest victim of a g rowing guns-and-drugs culture, writes Sophie Goodchild
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; HENRY LAWES had only stepped out to buy cigarettes...close range as, in a futile gesture, Mr Lawes tried to shield himself with his hands...shootings are commonplace in America, but Mr Lawes, a 51-year-old black man, was not...
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Obituary: Junjo Lawes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; HENRY "JUNJO" Lawes was the hottest reggae producer of the...previous decade. When he was shot, Junjo Lawes had been in London since last Christmas...Jamaica the next week. Chris Salewicz Henry Lawes, record producer: born Kingston, Jamaica...
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William Lawes, 1602-1645: Essays on His Life, Times and Work.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...s survey of brother Henry Lawes's memorial publication...settings of play lyrics by Lawes, who now emerges as a...dramatic music before Henry Purcell. Two valuable...two of which were set by Henry Lawes. Pinto sees Herrick...
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William Lawes.(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...and much less thoroughly explored. William Lawes (1602-1645) and his brother Henry Lawes (1595-1662) are by far the strongest candidates...for Humphrey Moseley, 1648), compiled by Henry Lawes as a memorial to his brother (and including...
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Classical: Musick's maverick King Charles I called him the `Father of Musick', but William Lawes (above) was just 43 when he died in battle. On his 400th anniversary, BAYAN NORTHCOTT assesses his musical legacy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...It is not, exactly, as if the name of Lawes ever disappeared from British music. But usually it was Henry Lawes who was remembered for getting John Milton...death, than the 43-year-old William Lawes. Granted, this was partly owing to the...
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 "Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)")
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Three charged in March killing: One of the suspects was accidentally shot during the slaying of Valec Lawes.
Newspaper article from: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
; ...in Pennsylvania. Police said Lawes' cell phone was last used at...investigation, Kerone Treimein Henry, 21, Arthur Street, Hazleton...involved in the deadly shooting. Henry told police that Venson indicated...the three had planned to rob Lawes of marijuana and that McCarthy...
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Classical: A cavalier on song
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...counterpoint of consort music by Lawes's older contemporary, John Jenkins...focused as ever, in solo songs of Lawes that effectively confounded my reservations...among numbers by his elder brother Henry Lawes - of Comus fame - and younger men...
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A Tale out of Anacreon/Oh, that joy/Sweet, stay awhile/Amarillis, by a spring/From the heav'ns/Sweet echo/Oh sweet woods/In quel, gelato core/Amidst the myrties/Now, now Lucasia/Slide soft, you silver floods/When shall I see?/The Angler's Song/Love's Sweet Repose/Cease you jolly shepherds/Gather your rosebuds/Oh, let me still and silent lie/Oh, my Clarissa/Corants (3)/Country Dance/Alman/I laid me down/When man for sin
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...4 Saraband4 The songs of the Lawes bothers, Henry and William, have never had...that: "bad as the music of [Henry] Lawes appears to us, it seems to have...queued up to lavish praise on Henry Lawes's songs, or in the words of...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Literary star in Shropshire; MIDLANDS archive Chris Upton looks at how John Milton came to write at Ludlow Castle, and below, Ross Reyburn discovers the poet's work is still remembered.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...mastermind such an occasion was Henry Lawes, music teacher to the Earl of Bridgewater...and her two younger brothers. Lawes could drill the three children in...attendant spirit, was played by Henry Lawes. We do not know for certain who...
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