Word: royals
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There is a new sophistication to private-banking clients that has taken some old-line European banks by surprise. "People have this image of private banking as a crusty old frock-coated Lord and Lady Jemima Puddleduck having tea with the bank manager," says Simon de Ferrer of the Royal Bank of Canada. "But the new wealth is more like Richard Branson"--the flamboyant British founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records...
...Some cheered, some booed, some simply walked out," reads the back cover of Bob Dylan's new release Live 1966: The 'Royal Albert Hall' Concert, a 2-CD set from Sony Records. The official release of the most bootlegged and one of the most controversial performances of all time has perpetuated so much hype about "The Poet" going electric that one would confuse the album's only value to be a historical relic rather than the legendary musical performance that it was. But let's just get one thing clear: Bob Dylan's Live 1966 is the greatest popular music...
Dylan's May 17, 1966 performance in England was not made a "legend" by his work alone. The tapes were supposedly purposely mislabeled as Dylan's final 1966 performance in Royal Albert Hall (it was actually recorded in Manchester, England). The reasons for its misidentification are the subject of much speculation--could it possibly have been to build up the myth even more? At the end of July that year, Dylan was thrown from his motorcycle, breaking his neck and going into total seclusion until November 1967. He returned with a haircut and a beard, releasing the calm...
...film) only intensify the conflict. Into the middle of this maelstrom, Kapur places Elizabeth: young, innocent, with flowing hair and a penchant for dancing the volta. There may be something tenacious and unreadable in Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth, but Kapur doesn't help much, filming the young royal in pastel gowns with a bevy of handmaidens and a robust beau, prancing giddily in some absurdly verdant corner of the English countryside. This is the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin (to quote the preeminent Elizabethan scholar Groucho Marx)--and if this preposterous rapture is the best the film...
...hour. The harp is a very beautiful, simple and intimate instrument. There is no bow or any other intermediary between the player and the instrument, and the harpist actually seems to be embracing the instrument most of the time. The music itself was harmonious and regal, conjuring images of royal courts, Shakespearean plays and village fairs. Especially enjoyable was "Gagliarda," by Carlo Gesualdo, which according to Lawrence-King contains "entirely enough ornamentation," and was filled with trills and other complex forms of auditory decoration. The most engaging piece was an improvised "Paradetas" at the end of the first half...