David Benedict
@eggsbened.bsky.social
Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay.
And the sequels Hy Society and Bali Hy.
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And the sequels Hy Society and Bali Hy.
Surprisingly, there are two writers by the name of David Benedict. I cannot attest to how appealing he is. That aside, only one of us wrote Fifty Years Among the Baptists and I doubt it will take you long to work out which of us that was.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Surprisingly, there are two writers by the name of David Benedict. I cannot attest to how appealing he is. That aside, only one of us wrote Fifty Years Among the Baptists and I doubt it will take you long to work out which of us that was.
With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
With a heigh-ho, the wind and the rain.
I always knew you to be a woman of taste and discernment. It is a thing of majesty.
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I always knew you to be a woman of taste and discernment. It is a thing of majesty.
Dies this mean you will own this? www.bonnemaman.co.uk/advent
Advent Calendar 2025
www.bonnemaman.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Dies this mean you will own this? www.bonnemaman.co.uk/advent
I loved it. I spoke with Nicholas Hytner, its director, a month or so ago about another production and at the end of the chat I took the opportunity to tell him how much I loved this. When the two staircases either side of the stage slid together in the rain at the melancholic end, I wept.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I loved it. I spoke with Nicholas Hytner, its director, a month or so ago about another production and at the end of the chat I took the opportunity to tell him how much I loved this. When the two staircases either side of the stage slid together in the rain at the melancholic end, I wept.
I can completely see why! Am slightly amazed I had stupidly written it off (in deep ignorance) as being of little interest.
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I can completely see why! Am slightly amazed I had stupidly written it off (in deep ignorance) as being of little interest.
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Super-saturated sullenness.
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Super-saturated sullenness.
And the instrumentation and the atmosphere…
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
And the instrumentation and the atmosphere…
I’m glad you did too. She will have appreciated it greatly.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’m glad you did too. She will have appreciated it greatly.
Just awful. She was, in every possible way, bright and not just her gleaming prose: when she was being enthusiastic about something or someone she shone.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just awful. She was, in every possible way, bright and not just her gleaming prose: when she was being enthusiastic about something or someone she shone.
Oh! Had no idea. Thanks for that.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Oh! Had no idea. Thanks for that.
I discovered that piece in my twenties. Loved it ever since. And I reckon the great Nelson Riddle loved it too because his blissful arrangement of Kern/Hammerstein’s The Folks Who Live On The Hill for Peggy Lee on the album conducted by Frank Sinatra echoes it so very strongly. youtu.be/xZmk50oPVok
The Folks Who Live On The Hill
YouTube video by Peggy Lee - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I discovered that piece in my twenties. Loved it ever since. And I reckon the great Nelson Riddle loved it too because his blissful arrangement of Kern/Hammerstein’s The Folks Who Live On The Hill for Peggy Lee on the album conducted by Frank Sinatra echoes it so very strongly. youtu.be/xZmk50oPVok
Indeed I do, alongside Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson… and doubtless others this Brit cannot summon to mind just now.
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Indeed I do, alongside Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson… and doubtless others this Brit cannot summon to mind just now.
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Ooh, @bigthink.com this exchange between @joscha.bsky.social and Jeffrey Epstein is so eugenics-smeared. Contemplating using climate change and involuntary euthanasia of infirm and elderly to cull the population… I think I’m going to be ill.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ooh, @bigthink.com this exchange between @joscha.bsky.social and Jeffrey Epstein is so eugenics-smeared. Contemplating using climate change and involuntary euthanasia of infirm and elderly to cull the population… I think I’m going to be ill.
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I hope sprinters do a decent job of work before running for just 100 metres.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I hope sprinters do a decent job of work before running for just 100 metres.
Someone on the other site is enraged that too tickets for the Royal Opera’ Götterdämmerung have hit £415. Which is a deranged, yes, but considering the fact that it has no economies of scale afforded by a long run, a cast of twelve plus chorus and 100+ musicians and the performance runs six hours…
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Someone on the other site is enraged that too tickets for the Royal Opera’ Götterdämmerung have hit £415. Which is a deranged, yes, but considering the fact that it has no economies of scale afforded by a long run, a cast of twelve plus chorus and 100+ musicians and the performance runs six hours…
I was being polite… you would hate it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was being polite… you would hate it.