Prom 41 Wednesday 17 August 2022. Review by Julia Pascal. The star of the evening was Behzod Abduraimov in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. If you shut your eyes you might think that four hands were playing the piano not two.
Poetry review – EXTERMINATING ANGELS: Charles Rammelkamp reflects on Alan Catlin’s willingness to confront life’s misfortunes
Poetry review – CANTICLE: Thomas Ovans is pleasantly surprised by the scope, depth and approachability of Murray Bodo’s poetry
Poetry review – PERFORMANCE RITES: James Roderick Burns admires Barry Smith’s exploration of the overlap between art and nature
Feminine Power: the divine and the demonic. Review by Carla Scarano. The Citi exhibition at the British Museum is a thought-provoking and diverse display of more than 80 artefacts and contemporary artworks that draw from the museum’s collections, loans and new commissions. They reveal the complexity of the representation of more than 5,000 years of femininity in cultures and religions around the world.
Desire / All My Good Countrymen (Vojtech Jasny). Review by Alan Price. “Jasny is the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave” claimed Milos Forman. Vojtech Jasny drew upon the lyricism of 1930’s Czech cinema to create his own dreamy naturalism and generosity of spirit that influenced those young directors of the 1960’s. Now we have the opportunity to see fine transfers of two key Jasny films: Desire (1958) and All My Good Countrymen (1968).
Poetry review – CONVERSATIONS: Mat Riches reviews Julia Duke’s poetic reflections on how we talk to one another
Poetry Review – THE KNUCKLEBONE FLOOR: Stuart Henson explores the many elements in Linda France’s new collection
Paul McDonald reviews Seren’s new two-volume edition of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2022. Review by Carla Scarano. ‘Climate’ is the theme of the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts, an unmissable event. The urgency of the climate crisis and global warming has inspired interesting and original pieces that sometimes explore and at other times defy and protest against such an important issue that is putting at risk our life on the planet.
Poetry review – DEFYING EXTINCTION: Charles Rammelkamp finds both resistance and acceptance in Amy Barone’s poems about mortality
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Review by Alan Price. In my previous review of The Complete Alfred Hitchcock Presents I ended it by requesting Viavision to also issue The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Well they have done so.
By Alan Price • television, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, television