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Music

Highs and lows at the Proms Robin Holloway N ovelties at this year's Proms have ranged so far between abysmal and out- standing. Startlingly dreadful was the longest and in some......

Arts

Power building in Paris Nicholas Powell on how President Chirac plans to add to the cultural landscape D uring his traditional televised inter- view at the no less traditional......