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    Maths and Voting

    In this talk we use mathematics to look at these flaws and answer associated questions (eg. voting trends and gerrymandering). For a bit of light relief we will see how the same principles work in the Eurovision Song Contest.

    Exporting Russia: Diaghilev’s Beginnings

    In this lecture we follow his early years, when he published The World of Art, a provocative Russian journal, exhibited Russian visual art in Paris, and then brought Russian music there, culminating in his production of Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov.

    Prokofiev's War and Peace

    Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace (1953) was an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel begun during WWII. He saw it as a personal interpretation of the novel.

    The Unacclaimed Accompanist

    Graham Johnson examines a problematic profession that continues to attract many gifted young pianists to its ranks and asks why.

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