Bernard Hughes
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Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.
Articles By Bernard Hughes
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A Child of Our Time, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - the spirit s...
Half a century ago, Michael Tippett’s A Child of our Time felt inescapable. For a youth-choir singer in the London of that period, his...
Baghdaddy, Royal Court review – Middle-Eastern magic realism
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim approach, all the better to educate and inform...
Album: Stormzy - This Is What I Mean
“All of this music, it’s nothing to do with the listener,” Stormzy announced to Louis Theroux in a recent TV interview. “All I can do is feel what...
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review – grand, class-cons...
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel is an even more brightly entertaining puzzle picture, revelling in the old-fashioned glamour of enviably...
Matilda the Musical review - a dizzying, smartly subversive...
I bow to no one in my affection for Matilda the Musical onstage, which I've loved across multiple iterations, from Stratford-upon-Avon to...
Mary Gauthier, Union Chapel review - a living room concert i...
Mary Gauthier’s first tour in more than three years landed at London’s Union Chapel on Saturday, concluding with another sold-out gig. The venue...
Music Reissues Weekly: Love - Expressions Tell Everything
Any reminder of the greatness of Love is welcome, and Expressions Tell Everything does this in fine style. A box set, it...
It’s a Wonderful Life, English National Opera review - Capra...
Looking for a sparkly operatic musical, well sung and played, slick and saturated in a range of mainstream styles that stop short in the year the...
Bones and All review - eat, don't heat
You expect gross-out movies to send your hands flying in front of your eyes. But Luca Guadagnino's ludicrous Bones and All is...
Basel Saleh, Sansara, United Strings of Europe, St Martin-in...
This collaboration between two young and exciting ensembles, the...