ABSTRACT
Task 1: Look at sentences 1–10, which are all extracts from art reviews, and decide what is being talked about in each one. Choose the most appropriate answer from the box. There are some which are not needed.
Performing arts
a modern dance piece
a concert
a play
an opera
a film
a ballet
Literature
poetry
a biography
drama
a novel
a collection of short stories
Fine/visual arts
abstract art
a landscape
a portrait
a still life
a sculpture
Mimi Latouche is getting a little too old for this kind of thing, and as I watched her pirouette across the stage in a tutu two sizes too small, she reminded me not so much of a swan as a rather ungainly crow.
The scenery was wonderful. The costumes were marvellous. The cast were incredible. I wish I could say the same about the script. The playwright should be shot.
In his new book on Ernest Hemingway, acclaimed writer Michael Norris has brought the great man to life in a way nobody else could.
Move over Michelangelo! You have a rival. Vittorio Manelleto’s marble pieces embody the human form in a way that has not been achieved in over five hundred years.
I had to study the picture for almost two minutes before I realised who it was. It was none other than our Queen. I doubt she would have been amused.
There are no great tenors in Britain. That is until now. Brian Clack’s performance in La Traviata sent shudders down my spine. What a man! What a voice! What a size!
Herbert von Caravan has been conducting now for almost forty years, and his final appearance yesterday was greeted with remarkable applause from both musicians and members of the audience.
‘Stone Angel’ is an hilarious tale about the fall and rise of an opera singer. I picked it up and didn’t put it down until I had finished. A fantastic book.
Dylan Thomas showed remarkable eloquence, and this latest compilation of some of his finest verse will surely be a bestseller.
Bruschetta’s studies of dead animals might not be to everyone’s taste, but it is impossible to deny his skill in representing inanimate objects like these on canvas.
