Anyway, this is the deal: The UK's biggest grime crew hailing from a tower block in Bow, east London, playing football against a bunch of middle-class hair metal guys brought up in the serene setting of the English countryside.
The PALM COURT at the NORWICH INN in Norwich (Route 32; 860-886-2401) is a serene setting for a formal English tea at $15.95, replete with canapes and pastries, served daily except Sunday, from 3 p.m. to 4 30 p.m. Alas, in such a handsome locale, we expected more than tea bags.
He packs Magid back home to be educated, but the son returns eight years later with a pukka English accent and a serene atheism.
"Stand By Me," performed by the Kingdom Choir, would not have been so stirring had it not been preceded by Thomas Tallis's "If Ye Love Me," one of the most serene motets in the canon of English music.
The 450 scribes of the 110-year-old Budget help knit 20,000 avid subscribers in what outsiders -- whom the Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking Amish call English -- can only envy as the most serene escape imaginable from the news plied elsewhere.
With music by Mr. Andriessen, the Dutch composer, and libretto by Mr. Greenaway, the English director and visual artist, the opera juxtaposes the serene world of Vermeer's paintings with the turbulent events of the time.
"I just want people to think about it more". Sitting in her studio in an industrial unit in north London, she seems improbably serene for an agitprop designer with a sunny demeanor and softly accented English.
They've an enviable roster now with Oliver Hacke, Dominik Eulberg, Polish oddball Off Pop all appearing, and it's refreshing to hear Nathan Fake, the only English guy present, provide the disc's highlight with his serene "Dinamo" odyssey.
Then comes "The River Wensum, Norwich," a serene depiction of houses reflected in glass-like water, by John Crome, an unknown English painter admired by the French, whose exacting technique was at complete odds with Constable's style.
