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Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has taken another apparent potshot at his predecessor, comparing him with tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula in an increasingly heated internal dispute over the direction of peace talks with Marxist rebels.
nytimes.com (1 month and 8 days ago)
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has taken another apparent potshot at his predecessor, comparing him with tyrannical Roman Emperor Caligula in an increasingly heated internal dispute over the direction of peace talks with Marxist rebels.
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Jonathan Miller's 25-year-old production for ENO has aged remarkably well, says John Allison
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 10 days ago)
Brian Eno has always been a prolific artist, whether as a pop star or an ambient composer. But 77 Million Paintings, one of Eno’s more recent releases, is his most expansive: a series of almost 300 individual music and lightworks that combine in an infinite array of randomized variations. But where did the idea for the genre-bridging work come from? Eno himself talks about...
gizmodo.com (19 days ago)

Brian Eno famously found the inspiration to craft his 1975 ambient masterpiece, Discreet Music, while bedridden, recovering from injuries sustained after getting hit by a taxi. Now, in a so-fitting-it's-weird twist, English doctors are instructing patients to heal themselves with Brian Eno's restorative music...
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The classicist Mary Beard tells the Telegraph Hay Festival that Caligula was not mad, as she admits that she's working on a TV documentary on the notorious Roman Emperor.
telegraph.co.uk (17 days ago)

Earlier this month, Brian Eno unpacked his very big brain for an 81-minute lecture at the
spin.com (19 days ago)

Wozzeck has not been seen at ENO for 25 years but Carrie Cracknell’s powerful new production of Berg’s masterpiece is a reminder of how well this house can do gritty realism. Tom Scutt’s ingenious split-level set design establishes the location as a saloon bar for modern-day military personnel, with separate rooms above, where more domestic scenes unfold. Wozzeck’s...
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independent.co.uk (1 day ago)
This morning, Red Bull Music Academy released a brand new short film dedicated to one of music's most vital and inspiring artists, Brian Eno. Light and Time: The Visual Art of Brian Eno "examines the themes that inform and inspire Eno’s particular vision of light and time manipulation."
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