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  • The first 12 pages of over 11,000 Internet entries either quoting or about me. I've cut out a few references which refer to other Karls and Dallases, including a band that includes a Karl and also a Dallas in its personnel! But I've included a Finnish guy who's appropriated my name for his MySpace profile.

BBC - Video Nation - HUMAN SHIELD by Karl Dallas

Karl goes on the anti-war march: Video Nation short by Karl Dallas : 17 Feb 2003 : London.
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BBC - Video Nation - AGAINST WAR by Karl Dallas

Karl is flying to Iraq: Video Nation short by Karl Dallas : 03 Feb 2003 : Bradford.
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Ewan MacColl: Ballad and Blues Concert - 2 visits - Jun 5

by Karl Dallas ( Article originally published in the concert programme). When the history of the 20th Century culture in this dis-United Kingdom comes to be ...
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Global Network - Karl Dallas

Karl Dallas. As performed (for example) at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales - March/July 2000 ... Words & Music by Karl Dallas. Get your Spy Base outa my face ...
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Faust Publication : Live at The Rainbow : Karl Dallas - Jun 5

Karl Dallas. NME, Jun 1973. London's Rainbow looked like a Berliner Ensemble production of a rock musical ... Karl Dallas, "Live at The Rainbow", NME 1973 ...
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Beyond the Ridge - Jun 5

By Karl Dallas. This article was originally published in MELODY MAKER, October 25, 1975. ... And here, Oldfield talks about the new album to Karl Dallas. ...
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Commedia Millennium Awards

Karl Dallas. Project: Clean It Up Local Partner: Bradford Community Broadcasting Medium: Radio / Web Round: 1. Karl's radio programme and web site is about ...
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  • I never actually finished this programme, but Bradford Community Broadcasting submitted it when the deadline had already passed. One day, I'd like to complete it!

Roger Waters Online - Jun 5

The Artful Roger Roger Waters Stockholm. Roger Waters talks to Karl Dallas eve of UK 84 shows. Roger Waters talks to Karl Dallas Pt. 2 eve of UK 84 shows ...
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LRB | letters from Vol. 27 No. 14

From Karl Dallas. David Bell’s survey omits one fascinating aspect of Napoleoniana, namely the positive or, at the very least, ambivalent view of Napoleon ...
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www.myspace.com/karldallas

MySpace Profile - Karl Dallas, 102 years old, Female, , Helsinki, FI, DJ Arsi. ... Karl Dallas's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog] ...
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FreeLists / hwdly / 12-2003

[hwdly] [HardwareDaily] New York Times: State of the Art - Conjuring a Superphone, With 3 Formulas to Choose - Karl Dallas ...
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Faust Publication : Faust and Foremost : Karl Dallas

For a band that's started its period with a new company by producing its own bootleg, that struck me as funny somehow. Karl Dallas, "Faust and Foremost", ...
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Living Tradition - Issue 36 Opinion - Jun 5

A combination of the article on Peter Bellamy by the "re-invented" Fred/Karl Dallas and the "Is Folk Dying" debate in your letter pages, has brought on an ...
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The Living Tradition magazine - Articles Index - Jun 5

Karl Dallas - Part 1 Karl Dallas - Part 2 Keith Donnelly Kevin Mitchell Kristina Olsen & Peter Grayling. Lester Simpson ...
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Folk Music Publications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An excellent 4-album set called "The Electric Music" was compiled in 1975 by Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow, David Laing and Robert Shelton. ...
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Fred Jordan - Jun 5

I have been unable to contact Karl Dallas, but I hope he won't mind me quoting ... As Karl Dallas pointed out, Fred Jordan's repertoire was not confined to ...
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Peter Bellamy: a celebration - Jun 5

Copyright 1999 Karl Dallas/HoustonMedia, with special thanks to Neil Wayne, Nigel Schofield, Don Walker (Crossfade) and Ben Slater. ... Karl Dallas Home Page.
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  • Technically, I suppose, this is a rip-off of the CD-ROM I created for the Peter Bellamy commemoration, Wake the vaulted echoes, but I'm happy to see it get a wider circulation. The musical examples are in RealAudio, a format that I hate, so you'll need to download a free RA player (http://forms.real.com/real/realone/intl/intl_realone.html). One day I'll redo them in MP3 or WMA format.

Free Reed Records & Music

A major in-depth Memoir on Peter's life and times by leading world- music journalist Karl Dallas, featuring excerpts from Peter's last major interview. ...
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Derek Bentley - Ewan MacColl

Derek Bentley - Karl Dallas. It's of a great adventure, to you that I will tell, Of how they hanged a half-grown lad and how it all befell. ...


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  • This was the second song I wrote, which was recorded by Ewan MacColl on his Chorus from the gallows LP, which is still available on CD from Topic. Ewan also invited me and my then wife, Betty, to sing at Theatre Workshop benefits at the Theatre Royal, Straford. All this was in 1953.

Mike Oldfield Articles & Interviews - Jun 5

Interview with Karl Dallas, upon the release of Ommadawn. ... Interview with Karl Dallas, during the recording of The Orchestral Tubular Bells. ...
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Folk Festival Review - 2001 - 2 visits - Jun 5

Pete Quin performed his second excellent set of the Festival, and Karl Dallas, the "grand old man" of folk & rock journalism performed a mixture of ...
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Mudcat MIDIs

Hand-loom weaver's lament (Midi made from notation in 100 Songs of Toil (Karl Dallas, 1974): version noted by John Higson from Common John Grimshaw. ...
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Bob Hart No 2

... 16.7 K An interview by Karl Dallas appeared in 'Folk Review' (February 1974, ... to expect the booklet to do more) and the Karl Dallas interview, ...
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Hebweb news 2005: Live Theatre in Hebden Bridge

A genuine "man for all seasons", astute songwriter, journalist, musician, radio presenter, and playwright Karl Dallas, presents us with a unique insight of ...
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Bellamy, Peter

Karl Dallas, in The Independent:. PETER BELLAMY was the most individual and prolific voice of the second generation of folk revivalists who followed in the ...
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Roger Waters Online - Jun 5

Karl Dallas Interview 1984 Q magazine 1987 Rolling Stone 1990 RCD 1992 ... Karl Dallas Interview 1984 "Earlier this year we went skiing and I was in a shop, ...

Yorkshire CND - Report on Demonstration at Fylingdales - 8/7/00

The music was wonderfully uplifting and, as Karl Dallas reminded us all, it is integral to protesting and always has been. ...
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Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk CD

Includes liner notes by Mitch Greehill, Daniel Frueh, Karl Dallas and Dave Peabody. All tracks have been digitally remastered. ...
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Beyond the Ridge: Portrait of a Genius

And here, Oldfield talks about the new album to Karl Dallas. "Throw 'Em?" demanded the man in the pub when we asked him the way. "Oh, you mean Thruff 'em, ...
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Boy Genius 'Not Broke' Shock - Jun 5

Karl Dallas - Melody Maker December 29, 1979 ... Karl Dallas lends a shoulder. THIRTY thousand unwitting Mike Oldfield fans have a fair-to middling chance ...
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td 1975 tour - Jun 5

Karl Dallas discusses their contribution to modern music Light on a Dark Group Talking to Tangerine Dream Dreaming for the record (The Making of Music) An ...
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[casi] The Truth About Iraq by Human Sheild Karl Dallas - 2 visits - Jun 5

Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ BY HUMAN SHIELD Karl Dallas. THE REALITY OF LIFE IN IRAQ NOW! ...
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Contents/summary of tourbook: Titles and Tour Dates Tangerine ...

DREAMING FOR THE RECORD An Analysis of Phaedra and Rubycon by Karl Dallas with comments by Christoph Franke. Tangerine Dream have mixed feelings about ...
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Topica Email List Directory

Karl Dallas, 09/21/02. RE: FW: Friday 4th October, Ruth Malkin, 09/21/02. Re Orpheus at the Melborn 25/9, bruce barnes, 09/21/02 ...
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"Peace" in the Balkans - Jun 5

Karl Dallas - 4 June 1999 The world has just become a more dangerous place. ... Karl Dallas West Yorkshire UK. Return to the '"Peace" in Yugoslavia?' Alert. ...
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Lyr Req: Who was Eloise in Leadbelly's Linin'

I thought Karl Dallas was posting on Mudcat earlier this week - can't remember ... As to Karl Dallas he was an important member of the Folk scene in England ...
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  • A fascinating thread, which never actually answered my question about Eloise in Leadbelly's Linin' track. One contributor actually said he believed I was dead!

Robert Fripp - Bibliography - Jun 5

"Disciplinary Action: Karl Dallas Goes to Holland to Meet the Born-Again King Crimson." MM 56 (June 19 1982): 27. Darling, Cary. ...
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Derek Bentley Page

The song Derek Bentley, written by Karl Dallas and performed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, appears on MacColl's album The Legend of Ewan MacColl (thanks ...
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International Solidarity Movement » 2002 » July - 2 visits - May 18

by Karl Dallas. The Battle of Nablus tune: English traditional, “The Bold Princess Royal”. On... Read more. You are currently browsing the International ...
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  • This song depicts what actually happened. I composed it the very next day and sang it to my fellow ISMers in the courtyard of the Red Crescent medical centre where we slept on the floors. My narrative conflicts with the description in the official ISM history.

Facilities and Resources - INSTITUTE OF POPULAR MUSIC - University ...

The Radio City FM Collection The David Friedman Collection The David Coates Collection The Karl Dallas Collection The Ron Clough Jazz Collection ...
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  • For what it's worth, I'm an honorary research fellow of the university.

Alan Prosser - Makerfield Reviews

More years ago than he may care to remember and in another group entirely (whisper Fi*%£!rs Dr*m), the esteemed Karl Dallas had him marked down; ...
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The Independent (London, England): Obituary: Ken Sprague ... - Jun 5

Byline: Karl Dallas. KEN SPRAGUE was a prolific political artist - some would say Britain's most truly committed political artist. ...
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Am I Right - Quotes, Pink Floyd

Roger Waters in a Karl Dallas interview - 1984 I have nothing against Dave Gilmour furthering his own goals. It's just the idea of Dave's solo career ...
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Rogue Folk Club - Rogues Gallery - Tim Readman

I’m also glad I spent years reading The New Musical Express in the days of great writers like David Quantick and Karl Dallas. I still steal from them all ...
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  • It was MM I wrote for, not NME. But many people read both. MM is no more, of course, killed by the down-market thrust imposed by insensitive publishers, as a result I was canned in 1981.

English Folk - June Tabor -> Gordon Tyrall - Jun 5

When Lal Waterson left us on September 4, 1998, this album had "not progressed past the rough cut stage", wrote Karl Dallas, in the obituary published in ...
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Roger Waters - Wikiquote

Karl Dallas Interview, 1984. "I have nothing against Dave Gilmour furthering his own goals. It's just the idea of Dave's solo career masquerading as Pink ...
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Pressgang @ eFolkMusic

... that plays outside the folk club ghetto. Traditional songs were treated with respect but not like exhibits in an archeological museum." Karl Dallas ...
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F-Index

England, Family Of Man, Fred 'karl' Dallas, info. Famine Song, Trad. England, Famous Flower Of Serving Men, Laurence Price / Ad. Martin Carthy, info ...
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Folk File: E - Jun 5

A brilliant compilation by Karl Dallas. elegy a dirge or memorial poem. eleventh 1. The eleventh note of the scale; that is, the octave plus three notes. ...
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  • This reference ignores my collaborators: Dave Laing (whose idea the book was), Robin Denselow (who still writes on "world music" – whatever that is – for The Guardian), and Robert Shelton, who'll be remembered in history as the first person to write in a national daily paper (The New York Times) about Bob Dylan. Shelton's archive sits alongside mine in Liverpool's Institute of Popular Music.

Human shields remin in Iraq - news from ekklesia on theology and ... - May 18

In an interview published by The Independent newspaper at the weekend, Karl Dallas, a 72-year-old Christian singer-songwriter from Bradford, West Yorkshire, ...
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International Solidarity Movement » Ballad of a Small Victory

by Karl Dallas. The Battle of Nablus tune: English traditional, “The Bold Princess Royal”. On the last day of June in two thousand and two ...
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Bob Dylan Who's Who

... Shelton championed far ahead of its revival - and with Karl Dallas, Dave Laing and Robin Deneslow, the fine Electric Muse: The Story Of Folk Into Rock. ...
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Human Shields Bed Down in the Target Zone

If the bombing starts then it is going to get hairy," said the group's unofficial guitarist and songwriter, Karl Dallas, 72, from Bradford. ...
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The Patriot Game

Interestingly, when Burl came to Britain and I met him from the airport, Dominic was the one British singer he wanted to meet. (Karl Dallas, Living ...
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Peter Hammill - Jun 5

The Generator Game - interview in the MM by Karl Dallas, 13th November 1976. Will Peter Hammill end up crazy? - interview in the NME by Angus Mackinnon, ...
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Music, Violence, Truth

Music journalist Karl Dallas challenged him in print. Reaching an anti-US position was painful and slow, yet by Machine Gun, it happened. ...
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  • "Hendrix was intensely loyal to classmates who had been drafted and to 101st Airborne, the regiment he'd served in. Eric Burdon was amazed at his rightwing stance on the Vietnamese war when he reached England in 1967. Music journalist Karl Dallas challenged him in print. Reaching an anti-US position was painful and slow, yet by Machine Gun, it happened. Hendrix's rainbows of audio-feedback revelled in spaces which brought pain to the repressed and rigid: in the ears of GIs, they were incitements to immediate pleasure, to disrespect for authority, and to outright mutiny (‘fragging’)."

Am I Right - Artist Summary Pink Floyd

Roger Waters in a Karl Dallas interview - 1984 ... Why They're Dirty:. Pointed out in Karl Dallas' 'Bricks In the Wall'. Submitted by: agrimorfee ...
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  • "Earlier this year we went skiing and I was in a shop, paying a bill and there was a woman standing there whom I knew slightly. I was waiting for my bill and she was buying something, a tea strainer. Quite suddenly she said to me 'Where was you Father killed?' I was very surprised and blurted out 'Oh Anzio'. Now this is a woman of about my age, so she's 40ish. She said 'My Father was killed in the war.' Apparently somebody lent her a copy of 'The Final Cut' and she had listened to the whole thing and she had found it very moving. In fact she said it had moved her to tears. She told me this, standing in the shop, with some effort I suspect and I remember thinking 'That's enough really. It doesn't matter if the Americans don't buy it.'" - Roger Waters in a Karl Dallas interview, 1984

Ace Records

Regarded, a little unfairly, as "largely Renbourn's record" by Melody Maker folk supremo Karl Dallas, who drew a favourable comparison between Henderson and ...
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Traditional & Folk Music - Encyclopedic Dictionary E section

A brilliant compilation by Karl Dallas. elegy a dirge or memorial poem. Elegy-An elegy (= French: élégie) is a lament, either vocal or instrumental. ...
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Yorkshire Folk Arts: Regional Directory: Performers: music and ...

Karl Dallas Singer-songwriter and poet, critic. Composer of The Family of Man (Liverpool Spinners), Derek Bentley (Ewan MacColl), The Conscript's Farewell ...
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Dick Gaughan - Links in the Chain - Peter Bellamy - May 18

Article by Karl Dallas in Living Tradition. Website and all graphics ©Gaelweb 2005 Unauthorised reproduction or use strictly prohibited ...
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The Session: Discussions - Irish Traditional Music - Scottish ...

As Karl Dallas said, many years ago, whilst introducing Alan Stivell, "Two thousand years ago you could move across much of Western Europe, speaking celtic, ...
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Steve Hackett - Reviews and Chat

By Karl Dallas for Melody Maker or Sounds Kindly contributed by Brett Palfrey (thanks Brett!) Genesis Was Just A Beginning November 2, 1981. ...
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Enthusiasms - 36

In fact, the situation was such that in 1965 AL Lloyd felt the need to redress the balance by writing a sympathetic piece about Sharp in Karl Dallas’s ...
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Among My Souvenirs

collected by Karl Dallas in Suffolk. Published in "The Electric Muse". (First section sings to After the Ball (cho); second part to Among My Souvenirs--RG) ...
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G21 NEWS: "Dispatch from Baghdad-by-the-Bay"

Eric Levy, 75, and Karl Dallas, a 72 year-old folksinger, installed under the stacks at Daura and at the Aldurah power plant, respectively. ...
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Metro: Into the War Zone in Hebden Bridge

Inspired by the account of those who travelled to the war-torn region, playwright Karl Dallas has written a play called Into the War Zone, which tells the ...
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spiked-politics | Article | Shielding themselves from politics

On the bus journey to Baghdad the human shields were entertained by guitarist and songwriter Karl Dallas, in what one journalist called something 'between a ...
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  • I never actually travelled on the bus!

Andy Irvine: Sweeney's Men, 1968

... Sweeney’s Men will be seen to have rather more than just a beginning. Perhaps this was the way the music should have developed all along. Karl Dallas ...
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Reviews of Common Ground Scotland, 2003

For participants like Karl Dallas, fresh from human shield activity in both Palestine and Iraq, and others who lived through the enlightened optimism of the ...
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[PDF] Ultravox: The Story

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Karl Dallas talks about the film and talks to Dennis Leigh. Two weeks later, there was a. review in Melody Maker (dated March 15, 1975, page 14) of the ...
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An anti-war opera

(Tuesday 04 April 2006)

INTERVIEW: Opera North's JAMES HOLMES explains why German composer Kurt Weill inspires him.

A stunning setting for a smashed romantic idyll

(Tuesday 04 April 2006)

FIRST in Opera North's current touring season came Mozart's version of Beaumarchais's misogynist Marriage of Figaro. Next up is Puccini's late operetta La Rondine, a tale where money and straitlaced morality triumphs over true love.

 

The heart of crime

(Wednesday 08 March 2006)

INTERVIEW: CHRIS SANSOM explains why he chose to set his new crime thriller in post-civil war Spain.

Touching moments in back-to-front exhibition of Mahler's song cycle

(Tuesday 28 February 2006)

THE German Orientalist writer Friedrich Ruckert wrote 425 grief-stricken poems in 1833-34 after two of his children died within 16 days of each other.

 

Sex and death in Strauss opera

(Tuesday 31 January 2006)

THANKS to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and the fin-de-siecle decadence movement, Salome is a widely misunderstood character.

Striking spectacle

(Tuesday 24 January 2006)

RICHARD Ormrod is one of the most exciting and intriguing jazz musicians to come out of the north since the days when Ron Aspery, Colin Hodgkinson and Tony Hicks came scorching out of a pub on the Yorkshire moors to blast our socks off as Back Door back in the 1970s.

A junk food opera

(Tuesday 10 January 2006)

TODAY, Engelbert Humperdinck - the composer, not the dreadful pop crooner - is known mainly for his opera version of the Grimm brothers' grim folk tale Hansel and Gretel.

King's fall is Opera North's success

(Tuesday 06 December 2005)

BACK in September, the always innovative Opera North company presented Verdi's opera Nabucco as an oratorio.

A force for change

(Tuesday 22 November 2005)

SONG is the Cinderella among political campaigning tools. Sometimes, as in the Aldermaston-marching heyday of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, there have been times when everyone seems to be using music as a political weapon - though, even then, the organisers wanted it to be a four-day silent march, an interesting idea conceptually, but impossible to maintain in practice.

Sinatra's leap from left to right

(Saturday 05 November 2005)

THE title of this slim but well-researched volume may surprise those who remember Sinatra only as the Mafia-financed Reaganite of his dotage.

Representing reality

(Wednesday 26 October 2005)

Karl Dallas sees an amazing range of new documentary films of many styles and subjects from around the globe.

Jazz - the sound of surprise

(Saturday 15 October 2005)

SOMEONE once called jazz the sound of surprise and, in its almost a century of life, it's truly amazing how often it can continue to live up to its name.

World views

(Wednesday 05 October 2005)

NOW in its 11th year, Bradford's Bite the Mango festival has grown into what is arguably the most important screen survey of films mainly from the Third World.

Opera North gets the relationship right

(Tuesday 27 September 2005)

DURING the refurbishment of their home at Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North is presenting a series of concert and semi-staged performances at Leeds Town Hall.

Director is a fly in the ointment

(Thursday 22 September 2005)

NORTHERN Broadsides' production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal is a deliciously entertaining romp.

Brecht's dramatic legacy

(Monday 22 August 2005)

BERTOLT Brecht is arguably the most important playwright of the 20th century.

Cinematic poet

(Wednesday 15 June 2005)

Karl Dallas follows a season of films by imaginative Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky in Bradford.

Human shield puts personal experience of war-torn Iraq on stage

(Thursday 17 March 2005)

ON January 29 2003, two double-decker London buses left Britain on a 3,000-mile trip to Baghdad.

A very real tragedy

(Thursday 24 February 2005)

Karl Dallas says that political theatre is alive and well in this saddening play about a young woman dying of CJD.

A visionary of cinema

(Tuesday 15 February 2005)

Karl Dallas takes an opportunity to experience the work of the much-neglected Soviet film-maker Larissa Sheptiko.

Rare outing for Rossini opera

(Tuesday 15 February 2005)

WHEN Rossini's La Gazza Ladra was first premiered in Milan on May 31 1817, its story of a young serving woman wrongly accused of theft and saved from the gallows at the 11th hour appealed very much to the revolutionary fervour of the time.

Cinematic legacy

(Tuesday 05 October 2004)

IN FOCUS: Karl Dallas discusses the films which were true to author Graham Greene's original novels.

A strange sort of heroine

(Tuesday 05 October 2004)

OPERA: Karl Dallas welcomes Opera North's fresh look at Puccini's Manon, but is wary of Daniel Slater's confusing direction.

A subverted tale of love

(Tuesday 28 September 2004)

OPERA: Karl Dallas reviews a problematic production of Gluck's landmark opera Orfeo ed Euridice at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.

A timely warning

(Wednesday 22 September 2004)

BOOK: Karl Dallas looks at Slavoj Zizek's controversial theory on the real reason for the Iraq war - the targeting of US society itself.

Rare outing for Rossini opera

(Tuesday 15 February 2005)

WHEN Rossini's La Gazza Ladra was first premiered in Milan on May 31 1817, its story of a young serving woman wrongly accused of theft and saved from the gallows at the 11th hour appealed very much to the revolutionary fervour of the time.

A society in transition

(Tuesday 01 February 2005)

WHAT'S it all about, Don Giovanni? Just as Michael Caine's Alfie summed up changes in sexual mores during the swinging '60s, Lorenzo Da Ponte's drammagiocoso (amusing tragedy) at the end of the 18th century also depicted a society in transition, from the certainties of a decayed feudalism to the uncertain confidence of the coming era of de Sade and capitalist individualism.

Fleeting love

(Tuesday 04 January 2005)

Karl Dallas recommends Opera North's hearty interpretation of Kurt Weill's kitsch 1940s Broadway musical One Touch of Venus.

Parody compares to Adrian Mole on a bad day

(Monday 20 December 2004)

The funniest thing about this supposed satire is the title, with its reference to Mark Haddon's brilliant, prizewinning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Inhumane beauty

(Wednesday 15 December 2004)

FILM: Karl Dallas finds a beautiful, poetic work based around the ugliest construction on the planet - the Israeli government's apartheid wall.

Sickly sweet musical treats

(Tuesday 16 November 2004)

Karl Dallas compares Northern Ballet Theatre's Gershwin interpretation to a pot-pourri of sugary musical lollipops.

Why confuse Edward Said's accessible arguments with difficult language?

(Monday 25 October 2004)

UNTIL his death last year, Edward W Said was at the same time one of the most coherent and significant thinkers in the Arab world, as well as someone who had something to say to intellectuals across the entire globe, writes Karl Dallas.

A window on the world

(Tuesday 19 October 2004)

Karl Dallas tastes all manner of movies from around the globe at Bradford's Bite the Mango Film Festival.

A truly seductive opera

(Tuesday 19 October 2004)

Karl Dallas is delighted that Opera North has, yet again, exceeded expectations with a groundbreaking production.

Claustrophobic tale doesn't suit venue

(Thursday 07 October 2004)

LUCY Bailey's direction of Andrew Rattenbury's stage adaptation of James M Cain's noir tragedy begins with an astonishing coup de theatre, when the anti-hero Frank Chambers is bundled out of the back of a pick-up truck, which then drives away into the backdrop, writes Karl Dallas.

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