CONCERNS have been raised about the potential de-registration of a piece of common land. At Tuesday s meeting of Dalston Parish Council, local resident Oliver Roberts criticised the council for considering de-registering land at Walk Mill in the village. The row has been brewing for months - at December s meeting, councillors voted by eight votes to four to remove fencing erected by the owners of 1, 2 and 3 Walk Mill, stating they had not complied with the terms of their lease by erecting fencing to enclose areas of the common land. On Tuesday, councillors pointed out that two of the fences had been there for some time - but former parish councillor Mr Roberts had previously raised a complaint about the newest fence on the land.
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On July 24th, a French horn will solo in the Quarry Gardens of Schuyler. Also on the program, an accordion, percussion and two singers from the Metropolitan Opera who are known for their ability to project.
“We do not like to use microphones in our work,” says Brenda Patterson, co-founder of Charlottesville’s Victory Hall Opera. During the pandemic the company was confined to performances online, but now it returns with a live, outdoor show using the quarry’s rock walls to naturally amplify sound.
“We believe that the power of the live operatic voice, just acoustically produced from the singer’s body, is actually the point of opera,” Patterson explains.
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Victory Hall Opera singers recorded themselves for a documentary about how the pandemic has changed their lives.
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Charlottesville’s Victory Hall Opera was planning a production of La Traviata when the pandemic hit. It was a small irony since that 19th century Italian opera tells the tale of a young woman fighting a deadly disease.
Artistic Director Miriam Gordon-Stewart says the company had hired a distinguished, 74-year-old conductor from The Met.
“Joel Revson was originally scheduled to conduct our Traviata production, she recalls. He contracted COVID and after a very long struggle passed away.”
Binotto calls on Ferrari to cut out ‘intolerable mistakes’
Date published:
February 26 2021
Mattia Binotto made erasing “setbacks and mistakes” the key theme of his message in part one of Ferrari’s launch for the 2021 season.
The Scuderia’s team principal was clearly unafraid to address the elephant in the room, namely the Italian giants’ dreadful 2020 campaign in which they finished sixth in the Constructors’ World Championship.
The first half of the Ferrari launch took the form of a recorded broadcast, bookended with statements from Binotto standing in the Victory Hall at the Maranello HQ, while the middle section comprised of interviews with drivers Charles Leclerc and newcomer Carlos Sainz – including quizzing each other.