Wihan Quartet St Peter's Church, Goodwick, Sat, Sun; Wolfscastle Hotel, Haverfordwest, Tue Three programmes built around this year's Haydn and Mendelssohn anniversaries for the Fishguard festival.
In advance of Merkel's visit, the British media stressed the plethora of Anglo-German anniversaries coming up this year: 100 years since the start of the first world war, 200 years since the British and Prussians united to defeat Napoleon, and 300 years since a German princeling became King George I.
There are no celebratory parades scheduled this week – as there have been in previous years – perhaps because the North plans them for other significant anniversaries.
This year's programme is built around two more anniversaries.
Anniversaries are annual events.
ARE Turner-Prize anniversaries like dog years, equal to seven human ones?
The planned date of independence March 24th 2016 coincides with the anniversaries of the 1603 Union of the Crowns and the 1707 Act of Union.Yet next year also brings a British heartstring-tugger: the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the first world war.
If the Baltic prime ministers and presidents will not meet the Dalai Lama, then their solemn talk about anniversaries, statehood and continuity is just self-indulgent, hypocritical windbaggery.
But to those who brood on anniversaries, who suspect every last thing the government does, and who nourish their hatreds in the emptier corners of the country, the trial raises more questions than it answers.
ANNIVERSARIES are times for reflection, and this one should be no exception, for the 30-year history of AIDS is a mirror in which humanity can examine itself.
Next year's 30th anniversaries of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy will bring to mind this party, which once fearlessly took on segregation, poverty and the Mob and made at least some headway against them.Could the Democrats offer something both credible and different from the centrist consensus?
