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Great expectations
1st October 2011 Michael HendersonTalent, said Laurence Olivier, was plentiful; skill much rarer. Genius in a performing artist is rarer still, but Olivier had it, and so does Christian Gerhaher, the Bavarian baritone, who…
One day at Headingley
20th August 2011 Michael HendersonThe cyclist sipping wine on the terrace of a Thames-side pub may not look much like an English hero, but anybody who loves cricket knows that he ranks only slightly…
Seeking closure
30th July 2011 Michael HendersonAfter a recital at Wigmore Hall earlier this year András Schiff performed an encore, as pianists often do. Normally a Bach prelude or a Schubert impromptu will round the evening…
The great game
11th June 2011
Michael Henderson
Some of the best writing about sport in recent years has been done by journalists who tend their soil, so to speak, in another parish. Peter Oborne’s biography of the…
Philip Roth is a genius
28th May 2011 Michael Henderson‘Prizes are for little boys,’ said Charles Ives, the American composer, ‘and I’m a grown-up’. That, most sensible people will agree, is a proper response to the world’s follies. But…
Never say goodbye
24th May 2011 Michael Henderson Bob Dylan is 70. Michael Henderson has written an article marking the occassion in the current issue of the Spectator. Here it is for readers of this blog.
Never say goodbye
21st May 2011 Michael HendersonBob Dylan turns 70 next week, and from Duluth to Derby they will blow out the candles. The Minnesotan troubadour, who rolled into New York the year Kennedy became president,…
Unexpected passion
7th May 2011 Michael Henderson‘I belong to no tribe,’ says Alfred Brendel, taking tea at his home in Hampstead, surrounded by some of the books that constitute his vast library. ‘I follow no creed,…
Acting up
9th April 2011 Michael Henderson‘We’re asked to console with each tremulous soul who steps out to be loudly applauded. Stars on opening nights weep when they see their names in lights. Though people who…
The great redeemer
19th March 2011 Michael HendersonWe do not, as a rule, meet all our loves at once. Those things which mean so much to us in our emotional maturity did not always strike us as…
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