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Stags Leap District is a valley within Napa Valley and the tiny area — just one mile by one-and-a-half miles — is the place where the grapes for some of the finest American red wines are grown.
Burrows Lightbourn Ltd represents Stags’ Leap Winery in...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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Food & Wine
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
The audience couldn’t help but clap along as Step Afrika! opened its third sold-out show at Earl Cameron Theatre.
Several people took advantage of the company’s invitation to join them on stage and learn the basics of “stepping”, an African tradition...
DATE: Feb 17, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
A musical recounting of the Sea Venture’s wreckage off Bermuda in 1609 premiered recently at the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts.
The piece was performed by the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, which was founded, primarily, to present classi...
DATE: Feb 08, 2016
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
The Schubert Ensemble of London, recognised as a chamber group that ranks amongst the very best, was back for the Bermuda Festival after a three-year interval.
Those who had heard this fine group of musicians perform during their last visit in 2012 k...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
To hear pianist William Howard perform Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No 2 Op 31 B flat minor is well worth leaving a warm home on a chilly Sunday afternoon for the Earl Cameron Theatre, City Hall.
The programme notes describe this work as “ ... unashamed...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Yo-Yo Ma has been described by Washington Post art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott as arguably the best cellist ever, known for his fresh, richly interpretative approach.
The audience at the Bermuda Festival’s Founders’ Recital, performed in...
DATE: Feb 03, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
When James Bond switches up his trademark martini for Macallan scotch whiskey, you know this spirit is so cool, it’s now haute.
(That’s “hot” as spoken by Scottish friends, although “elegant and stylish”, the French interpretation, also fits.)
The mo...
DATE: Dec 05, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
As the president of Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Bermuda John Barnett has said, the society returned to their roots with the current staging of The Pirates of Penzance, a comic opera written by the name-sakes of the Society.
A comic opera, The Pir...
DATE: Oct 11, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Duisburg Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Earl Cameron Theatre at City Hall
Sunday 24 February 2013
From the complex and mournful voice of the oboe to the bright clarity of the flute, a wind quartet’s opportunities to express colour and range are well bey...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Review: Voces8
Voces8 chose an ecclesiastical programme spanning half a millennium for their concert at the Earl Cameron Theatre at City Hall.
The award-winning group was founded by choristers from Westminster Abbey. Today they are especially well-l...
DATE: Feb 25, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill