Good question, Robert Reich…
Year: 2026
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Happy New Year?
The view from my study window this morning:
And walking in the woods later with Ollie, the dog:
I returned to read that Trump has declared war on Venezuela – who will be next? Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of War…
Oh well, Happy New Year to us all – what’s left of it…
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Memories
We had a friend here at the farmhouse to see in the New Year with us, and typically with her, there were wide-ranging conversations about art.
She had just returned from Milan where she had been to see Nureyev’s staging of Sleeping Beauty at La Scala. She said that she had never seen Nureyev in person, so I told her the story of when Len & I saw him in the production he did with London Festival Ballet at the London Coliseum.
This had Rudolf Nureyev as Prince Florimund. It was the first time I had ever seen Nureyev dance live. He didn’t disappoint, although he (deliberately?) almost dropped Princess Aurora (Eva Evdokimona) at the end of a pas de deux to gasps from the audience and an exclamation from Len: “Careful, Rudi!”.
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was to become good friends with the ballet dancer Kerrison Cooke, who was dancing the role of one of the Princess’s suitors. Ah – more memories. Thank you Kerry (and Len).
Today I looked at the programme I had kept from that evening – and dear lord, it was 50 years ago…
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