Happy birthday – and lamentable death date – William Shakespeare!
Blackadder strikes back at the Bard for Kenneth Branagh’s interminable “Hamlet” (with amusing cameo by Colin Firth):
Rowan Atkinson, again, in an unrelated sketch about Shakespeare and his publisher, this time with Hugh Laurie:
“But all I’m saying, Shakey, is let’s just shorten this one terribly dull speech.”
#Shakespeare400
It’s official. Sir Simon Rattle will be the next music director of the London Symphony Orchestra (replacing Valery Gergiev), beginning in 2017.
Read the press release here:
file:///C:/Users/famul_000/Downloads/LSO_Press_Release_3.3.15_54f5746ab7c52.pdf
An analysis from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31696988
In case you missed it, here’s Rattle conducting the LSO at the 2012 London Olympics – with Rowan Atkinson!
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