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McCartney work will premier in September at New York City Ballet

Paul McCartney has written a ballet score for the New York City Ballet. The work is titled Ocean's Kingdom and is to premier with a gala performance on September 22. The choreography will be by Peter Martins, the company's ballet master in chief.

McCartney told the New York Times that the work is "basically a romantic story" in which two worlds are in conflict. One world is the ocean kingdom, a place or purity and goodness; the other is the earth kingdom where the "baddies" rule. Earth boy meets ocean girl and "you'll have to see whether the couple makes it." As you would expect, "there's all sorts of troubles along the way." Read more

Danny Boyle's Frankenstein a hit in London

British Critics have raved about the Boyle production. It's "a bravura triumph" with "brilliant" staging (Guardian), gets "four out of five stars" (Independent), "will doubtless be spoken of for many years to come" (Daily Mail) and "the show is a thrill" (Telegraph). Read more

Diagram Prize for oddest book title will be announced tomorrow

n case you've forgotten, this is the prestigious literary award that originated as a boredom-relief diversion at the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair, sponsored by The Bookseller, a British publishing trade magazine. The Diagram Prize is given to the book with the oddest title.

They prefer that the title be unintentionally odd, as opposed to odd by contrivance. Many of the books are published by the "best" publishing houses—Prentice Hall, University of Chicago Press, Penguin, Simon & Schuster—so do not imagine that they are without weight and substance. Read more