Bernard Hughes
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Bernard Hughes is a composer and writer, based in London.
Articles By Bernard Hughes
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Zingari/Tosca Suite, Opera Rara, Rizzi, Cadogan Hall review...
Two major composers took Pushkin’s narrative poem The Gypsies as the subject for two very different...
Album: Madmess - Rebirth
Madmess are a Portuguese power trio who are based in London. Muscular and (mostly) instrumental stoner...
Life of Pi, Wyndham's Theatre review - visually ravishi...
When the Canadian Yann Martel went to India as a young adult backpacker he fell in love – not with one person but with the rich imaginative...
Starstruck, Scottish Ballet review - smart, sassy and cinema...
How do you picture Gene Kelly? Most likely in his effervescent screen persona, either as the burly ex-GI of An American in Paris, or as...
Hellbound, Netflix review - supernatural assassins usher in...
Netflix is sometimes criticised for bringing too much of...
10 Questions for musician and DJ Pete Tong
Perhaps appropriately, when I called Pete Tong for his 10 questions I...
Album: Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook
It’s a far cry from his beginnings in a tight, no-frills power-pop-post-...
theartsdesk at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - s...
Film festival chiefs the world over have been having a tricky time...
The Courtauld Gallery - the old place, just better
The Courtauld Gallery’s dark corners have gone, and with them a certain apt melancholy, that effortlessly summoned the ghosts of Gauguin’s ...
Hedvig Mollestad, National Jazz Scene, Oslo review - watch o...
The opening moments don’t suggest what’s coming. A solo flute is followed by a few spoken phrases from a treated voice. What’s being said? It’s...