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• Save our pipe organs – they provided the chest-thumping heavy metal of their day | Letter

  27-02-2025 19:05
  
  Bravo to the musician Mark Mynett for calling out the loss of these instruments as churches close, writes Stephen WilcoxMark Mynett is right – there is a risk that, as churches close and are repurposed, we lose their pipe organs along with them (UK churches need open-mindedness to preserve heritage says heavy metal musician, 23 February).It’s not surprising that a metal musician is calling this out: until the invention of electronic amplification, previous generations who loved loud
  
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• ‘Ambition beyond words’: How Siena’s art revolution brought heaven down to earth

  27-02-2025 14:38
  
  Before the Black Death devastated Siena, the city thrummed with energy, expressed in art and architecture designed to dazzle its audience – and which still astonishes 800 years laterIf you want to know the moment of a medieval Italian city’s greatest prosperity, look at the year it began work on its cathedral. In Siena, the magic year was 1226, the start of some 85 years of construction of the duomo, a remarkable gothic structure with an intricately complex, creamy pink facade and st
  
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