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4 unusual facts about A Dance to the Music of Time


Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

It forms the fifth volume of his masterpiece, the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960.

Dance to the Music

A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell

Simeon Solomon

In Anthony Powell's novel A Buyer's Market (book 2 in A Dance to the Music of Time), the narrator says of the artist Mr. Deacon that Solomon was one of the few painters he admired.

Umfraville

Dickie Umfraville was a much-married character in Anthony Powell's novel series A Dance to the Music of Time.


Chris Lang

He has acted in such British television series as Shadow of the Noose, KYTV, Paul Merton, The Series, Drop the Dead Donkey, Outside Edge, A Dance to the Music of Time, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, and All Along the Watchtower, as well as the American television series Melrose Place.

Constant Lambert

He was at the centre of a brilliant literary and intellectual circle including Michael Ayrton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, and despite Powell's denial, he is often said to be the prototype of the character Hugh Moreland in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.

Pope Clement IX

He was also a patron of Nicolas Poussin, commissioning A Dance to the Music of Time from him and dictating its iconography.


see also

Anthony Powell Society

The Society emerged from the Anthony Powell Resources website begun in 1994 by Dr Keith Marshall and its associated email discussion list arising from the interest in Powell stimulated by the dramatization of A Dance to the Music of Time on UK Channel 4 TV in autumn 1997 and following his death.

George Goring

George Goring, Lord Goring, fictional character in Anthony Powell's 1952 novel A Buyer's Market, second in the A Dance to the Music of Time cycle.