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Your support makes all the difference.GORECKI, Bono, Ralph Fiennes - all names to conjure with. If you know how to pronounce them. For anyone who has ever had a scintillating point to make about a conductor or film director, only to lose all credibility by stumbling over their name, here is Hughes's guide to those arty names you've always had trouble saying, but were afraid to ask about. It's highly selective, probably fallible, but tolerably authoritative. Further suggestions most welcome - put them on a postcard to me, c/o Arts, IoS, 40 City Rd, London EC1Y 2DB, and we'll do this again soon.
Leonard Bernstein, composer. . . . . . . . Burnstyne, not Burnsteen
Bjork, singer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Byerk
Bono, singer with U2. . . . . . . . . . . .Bonno, not Boh-no
Sonny Bono, singer with Cher. . . . . . . .Boh-no, not Bonno
David Bowie, singer. . . . . . . . . . . . rhymes with Snowy, not Wow-ee
Cher, singer and actress. . . . . . . . . .Share
Cholmondeleys, dance company. . . . . . . .Chumleys
Kurt Cobain, singer. . . . . . . . . . . . CO-bane, not C'BANE
Aaron Copland, composer. . . . . . . . . . Cope-land
Francis Ford Coppola, film-maker. . . . . .COPE-uh-la
Angus Deayton, TV quizmaster. . . . . . . .Deeton, not Dayton
Degas, painter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Duh-gah, not Day-gah
Gerard Depardieu, actor. . . . . . . . . . J'AI-rar Duh-pud-JUH
Featherstonehaughs, dance company. . . . . Fanshaws
Ralph Fiennes, actor. . . . . . . . . . . .Rafe Fines
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, singer. . . . . .D-trick Fisher Deeze-cow
Frank Gehry, architect. . . . . . . . . . .Gear-y
Goethe, writer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GUR-ter
Henryk Gorecki, composer. . . . . . . . . Ger-RET-ski
Haydn Gwynne, actress. . . . . . . . . . . Hay-den Gwyn, not Hide'n'
Agnieszka Holland, film-maker. . . . . . . Ann-yesh-ka
Nicholas Hytner, theatre director. . . . . HEIGHT-ner
Irene Jacob, actress. . . . . . . . . . . .Ee-RENN Yack-OBB
Shobana Jeyasingh, dancer. . . . . . . . . Sher-BARN-er JIE-er-sing
Chen Kaige, film director. . . . . . . . . rhymes with tiger
Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer. . . . . . . .Tay CAN-uh-wuh
Herbert von Karajan, conductor. . . . . . .Fonn Carr-AYE-an
Krzysztof Kieslowski, film-maker. . . . . .Chris-toff Kiz-lov-ski
R B Kitaj, painter. . . . . . . . . . . . .Kit-aye
Roy Lichtenstein, painter. . . . . . . . . LICK-tern-styne
James Levine, conductor. . . . . . . . . . rhymes with divine
Sidney Lumet, film-maker. . . . . . . . . .Loo-met
Olivier Messiaen, composer. . . . . . . . .Messy-Un (as in Un ami)
Julia Migenes, opera singer. . . . . . . . M'Guinness
M Butterfly, play and film. . . . . . . . .M'sieur, not Em
Michelangelo, artist and Ninja turtle. . . Mickle, not Michael
Amedeo Modigliani, artist . . . . . . . . .Ammer-day-o Mod-ill-YARny
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist. . . . . . . ANN-ser-fee MUH-tair
Nietzsche, writer. . . . . . . . . . . . . rhymes with teacher
Arvo Part, composer. . . . . . . . . . . . Pairt
Joe Pesci, actor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Peshy
Michel Petrucciani, jazzman. . . . . . . . PetrOOSHiarny
Michelle Pfeiffer, actress. . . . . . . . .Fife-er (the P is silent, as in Psmith)
Augustus Pugin, architect. . . . . . . . . Pew-djin, not Pewg-in
Greta Scacchi, actress. . . . . . . . . . .Gretta Scarky
Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor. . . . . . . .SchvARTS-ern-egger
Anja Silja, opera singer. . . . . . . . . .Anya Sill-yer
Uma Thurman, actress. . . . . . . . . . . .OOH-mer, not Ewe-mer or Er-mer
Van Gogh, painter. . . . . . . . . . . . . rhymes with och, but with even softer C
Matthew Warchus, theatre director. . . . . WARTCH-us
Wim Wenders, film-maker. . . . . . . . . . Vim Venders
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