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The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihály s honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the couple are sitting at an outdoor café. It s János, someone Mihály hasn t seen for years, and he wants Mihály to come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble comes to a head when Mihály misses the train he and Erzsi are due to take to Rome. Off he goes across Italy, wandering from city to city, haunted and accosted by a strange array of figures from the troubled youth that he thought he had left behind: There are the charismatic siblings, Éva and Tamás, whose bizarre amateur theatricals linked sex and death forever in his mind; Ervin, a Jew turned Catholic monk who was his rival for Éva s love; and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle.
The choir of King s College Cambridge performs the traditional Christmas concert
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The nation has spoken, the list is in, and Songs of Praise yesterday revealed the UK’s Top 10 Favourite Christmas Carols. We sing them in churches, chapels, streets and schools every year, wrap presents and decorate our Christmas trees to their accompaniment, know all the words by heart – but how much do we know about the stories behind them?
Here are just some of the histories and controversies, the secret political messages and famous names attached to your favourite carols.
10. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
It’s a rare carol that swaps cradles and shepherds for “Satan’s tyranny” and “death’s dark shadows”, and perhaps that’s the appeal of this wonderfully brooding, solemn hymn. There’s no exuberant rejoicing in a 15th-century melody that may have originally been used as processional music for burial rites. The words, a colourful translation of a Latin an
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The Wheel art installation on Lowestoft s South Beach will be a focal point of First Light Festival s celebration of the Winter Solstice
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Suffolk’s east coast arts festival First Light is marking the end of a unique year with a series of specially-commissioned online winter solstice performances.
The festival, which is based in and around Lowestoft, will be marking the shortest day of the year with a number of online winter solstice events designed to remind people that after a challenging year brighter, lighter days are just around the corner.
The Wheel will send out message of hope at the conclusion of the Winter Solstice celebrations which can be viewed online on Sunday December 20
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