Percy Grainger wrote his light orchestral bonne bouche, Handel in the Strand, in 1911. The early 20th-century composer was tipping his hat to the 18th-century maestro who had made London his stomping ground, and the theatres around The Strand and Haymarket his marketplace.
An RA exhibit details attempts to wipe out Ukrainian culture – and what survived
The parallels between the threat to Ukrainian culture in the 1930s and today are unmistakable.