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The Emperor Reigns Absolutely in 'Caligula'
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With a title like "Caligula," you're expecting heads to roll. The
name of the third Roman emperor is synonymous with barking-mad
depravity, of a magnitude that conjures wild acts of sadism and
orgies of blood.
He might seem an odd choice of subject for the great 20th-
century existential writer Albert Camus. But the surprise in
Washington Shakespeare Company's pithy and vibrant revival of Camus'
rarely seen 1945 drama is that rolling noggins aren't as pivotal to
the experience as what is percolating so excitingly in Caligula's.
Camus' Caligula -- played with sumptuous vitality by Alexander ...
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Sir Arthur Bliss at the Cheltenham Music Festival; Freeze frame July, 1969.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Sir Arthur Bliss, then Master of the Queen's Musick...the Cheltenham Music Festival in 1969. Bliss (1891-1975), served in the First World...Royal Ballet. Do you have memories of Arthur Bliss? Share them with us by writing to...
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AN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: Music for Oboe and Strings inspired by Léon Goossens/ELIZABETH MACONCHY: Quintet/SIR ARTHUR BLISS: Quintet/BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Phantasy Quintet/DOROTHY GOW: Quintet/ERNEST JOHN MOERAN: Fantasy Quartet
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion
; ...Goossens ELIZABETH MACONCHY: Quintet SIR ARTHUR BLISS: Quintet BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Phantasy...Gow, David Adams: Violin 2 in Bliss Oboe Classics CC 2009 This fascinating...and later his performances of the Bliss and Moeran works. George Caird and...
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Arthur Bliss: Music and Literature.(Michael Tippett: Music and Literature)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...scholarship in the field generally and for his work on Sir Arthur Bliss specifically. His work includes bio-bibliographies of Arthur Bliss (1988), Richard Rodney Bennett (1989), and John...
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Arts: The difference a war makes How do you distil the experiences of war into music? A concert series featuring the work of First World War composers such as Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams has the answers.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...in the late Sixties, the composer Sir Arthur Bliss looked back at his experiences of...was on fire with images that - like Bliss's memories - swung between the...was annihilated in the trenches. Bliss survived the fighting in France...
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Reviews: Bliss shines through in this illustrious collaboraton of musicianship; Bliss: Chamber Music, vol 2 -Maggini Quartet, etc (Naxos 8.555931).(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...second volume of their exploration of Sir Arthur Bliss, last-but-one Master of the...Quartet, completed in 1915 when Bliss was 24, and a work proudly displaying...for the combination than it does. Bliss the magpie surfaces here, too...
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Caroline Bliss portrays Miss Moneypenny in 25th anniversary Bond adventure film.
PR Newswire
; ...London-born actress Caroline Bliss, who was just 6 months old when...The granddaughter of composer Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Music...of the National Theater Company, Bliss played Marina in "The Futurists...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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New Bliss Cantata Will be on Home Service.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...at 8.15 tonight in the Coventry Theatre, and the first half will be broadcast in the B.B.C. Home Service. Sir Arthur Bliss, commissioned by the Festival, has composed a new cantata for the occasion, " The Beatitudes," with ' text arranged...
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Arthur Pendragon: Ballet Suite No. 1. Piano Concerto No. I. Pilgrim
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...from the past decade-the ballet Arthur Pendragon and Pilgrim for double...from an earlier generation might be Sir Arthur Bliss. In recent years McCabe has moved...would seem ideally suited to dance. Arthur Pendragon (2000) is a full-length...
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Sit. royal and vacant Who should be offered the post of Master of the Queen's Music, empty now for nine months? And why can't the Master be a Mistress, asks Michael Kennedy
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...1924, when the organist Sir Walter Parratt died after...ignored him. After Bax, Sir Arthur Bliss, a much more understandable...but now lived abroad. Bliss was a dab hand with fanfares...fanfares of trumpets - by Bliss, of course." Bliss was...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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ECHOES FROM ANOTHER AGE OF TERROR.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: RACHEL HALLIBURTON Sir Arthur Bliss wrote a string quartet for those who died at the Somme...witnessed the horrors of the battle of the Somme, Sir Arthur Bliss struggled to find a piece of poetry to set to music...
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