To 25 Mar (www.centrepompidou.fr) Here's a jolly Christmas pressie from the folks at London's Kew Gardens – free entry.
With last week's Man Booker Prize over, Britain's literary hotshots are looking forward to December and a jolly winter jaunt to Petra in Jordan.
Frank Sinatra, feeling the lyric was too grim, asked Martin rewrite it when he recorded the song for his 1957 LP "A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra". Martin came up with "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough," a line that many other performers have used since.
At least that's the only way to explain why no one has predicted that the comet, hurtling toward earth during a jolly Christmas season, is going to come a lot closer than all of the comet-party revelers around the country suspect.
As if mounting a double-pronged attack, Kate Rufuss's mother) and her sister Anna have two albums out now: a French album, from which they play two songs tonight, and a jolly Christmas record, from which they play nothing at all.
E-commerce stocks powered ahead yesterday, fueled by signs of whats beginning to look a lot like a jolly Christmas for Internet retailers.
E-commerce stocks powered ahead yesterday, fueled by signs of whats beginning to look a lot like a holly jolly Christmas for Internet retailers.
Burl Ives narrates and sings "A Holly, Jolly Christmas".
The bright-and-breezy treatment of A Holly Jolly Christmas – Hilary Scott's lead vocal is complemented by lightly swinging strings and horns – is a pleasure; so is the sprightly, fiddle-filled Let It Snow! and the first two-thirds of The First Noel, before Scott's delicate interpretation is trampled by drippy violins.
Have a holly, jolly summer.
