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The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

Poetry that blends music, mortality and fame

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Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler

● ONE MORNING IN 2007 I KNOCKED at ...

A Chekhovian opera from Colin Matthews and William Boyd