Graham Nickson, Tree of Birds (2014) at Betty Cunningham Gallery
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Matthew Aucoin, Opera’s Great 25-Year-Old Hope
Carlo Rotella, New York Times Magazine
“Wunderkind” hyperbole aside, it’s nice to see a major publication writing about a young opera composer who besides Nico Muhly. Meet Matthew Aucoin, the 25-year-old conductor, composer, and poet whose operatic career is about to flourish.
Queen’s Speech: a programme to transform Britain?
Iain Watson, BBC News
The Tories’ decisive victory in the UK general election earlier this month gives the party its first outright majority in Parliament since John Major’s government was ousted in 1997, and with it an opportunity to govern without the shackles of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Iain Watson analyzes the Queen’s Speech, which set out the new Conservative government’s agenda on Wednesday.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin accuses United States of “meddling” over Fifa arrests
The Guardian
Remember that refrain about Waterloo and the playing-fields of Eton? It appears the soccer pitch will be the next battleground between the United States and Russia. The soccer world was shocked on Wednesday when senior FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) officials were arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges brought by the U. S. Department of Justice, and Vladimir Putin has a bizarre theory.
Open competition for the National World War I Memorial
The United States World War One Centennial Commission
There currently exists no national memorial to America’s effort in the First World War, but a commission set up for the purpose is soliciting proposals to create one in Pershing Park in Washington, D. C. Submit your proposal to make sure that this memorial doesn’t end up in the mire with the Eisenhower Memorial.
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