Clarendon Guesthouse, November 30 Check each egg before you eat it. Mikelangelo told us he was hatched from one (an indeterminate time after a frenzied splicing of his parents), and dipping your spoon into something similar would be a disturbing way to start your day. It was alarming enough entertaining…
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Concert Hall, November 28 The relationship between father and son has been the stuff of Shakespearian drama and TV sit-com. It may have played its part in invading Iraq and in abrupt shifts of course for certain inherited business empires. It certainly coloured this night’s music, and too often the…
Even being tried for blasphemy over a song lyric never shook Marcel Khalifé’s belief in his music. But then this belief had already seen him playing in bombed-out concert halls during the Lebanese Civil War and withstanding his father’s disdain for pursuing a musical career. Khalifé, who sings, composes and…