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- February 5, 2019
The “White male titans” of classical music are putting young people off the art form, the Royal Albert Hall director has claimed. While Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are all household names, female composers and those from ethnic minority backgrounds are much less celebrated, according to a new survey. Young people are also suffering from a
READ MOREOn 16 October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch at a restaurant in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Partway through the meal, a young man from his publisher’s office appeared. The young man dismissed the waiter, and informed Camus of what had just been announced on the radio: he was receiving the Nobel Prize
READ MOREAnthony Yarde moved closer to a world light-heavyweight title fight by stopping the veteran American Travis Reeves in the fifth round at the Royal Albert Hall in London. On the undercard his fellow Londoner Daniel Dubois enhanced his burgeoning reputation with a stunning second-round knockout of Razvan Cojanu. Yarde is targeting a showdown against Sergey
READ MOREImage copyright Getty Images Image caption Finney was a well-respected staple of both stage and screen Oscar-nominated British actor Albert Finney has died aged 82 after a short illness. He was a five-time Oscar nominee who began his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company before making his mark in film. His big film break came
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