Tag: centuries

‘They have inspired composers for centuries’: a first for the seven last words of Christ | Classical music

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Composer Alexander Mills

I felt hugely honoured when I was asked to compose a new setting of Christ’s Seven Last Words for Easter this year. I also felt the weight of 500 years of tradition on my shoulders. […]

‘Irish people have faced centuries of discrimination’: why are Lord of the Rings’ accents so offensively bad? | Television

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Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, a dwarf, in The Rings of Power.

‘What is this, famine cosplay?” asked Ed Power in the Irish Times after glimpsing the harfoots wandering around Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. In the weeks since then, he […]