Peter Pears - Peter Pears Peter Neville Luard Pears (June 22 1910 - April 3 1986) was an eminent British tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten. He trained at Hertford College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar, and at the Royal College of Music. Several of Britten's works contain a main tenor role written specifically for Pears. He also sang tenor parts in such works as Johann Sebastian Bach's Passions..
Kathleen Ferrier - a career in music. Her marriage, however, did not work out, and was annulled after 12 years. She studied with the baritone, Roy Henderson, who was a well known singing teacher at the time. Benjamin Britten wrote several parts specifically for her, including Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Abraham and Isaac (also written for Peter Pears), and part of the Spring Symphony (1949). She worked with several famous conductors, including Bruno Walter, John Barbirolli, Malcolm Sargent, Clemens Krauss, Herbert von Karajan, Eduard van Beinum and also with Benjamin Britten. She also worked with other famous singers such as Isobel Baillie and Peter Pears. Her final performance was as Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo et Euridice at Covent Garden in 1953. She had previously sung this at Glyndebourne in 1947, but the.
Igor Stravinsky - for business matters which puts him in a minority of composers (although it should be mentioned that his copyright difficulties were legendary), and appearing relaxed and comfortable in many of the world's cities: Paris, Venice, Berlin, London, New York all saw his successful appearances as pianist and conductor. This provides a key to his personality. Most people who knew him through dealings connected with performances spoke of him as polite, courteous and helpful. For example, Otto Klemperer, who knew Schoenberg well, said he always found Stravinsky much more co-operative and easy to deal with. At the same time he had an aristocratic disregard of his social inferiors: Robert Craft was embarrassed by his habit of tapping a glass with a fork and loudly demanding attention in restaurants. Igor Fyodorovitch was a.
Hertford College, Oxford - gaining full collegiate statis. Hertford was one of the first five co-educational colleges in the university. Famous Former Students John Donne John Meade Falkner Charles James Fox Thomas Hobbes Gavin Maxwell Max Nicholson Peter Pears Henry Pelham Jonathan Swift William Tyndale Evelyn Waugh Byron White Academics/Teachers External Link Official website.
Dennis Brain - Busch Chamber players who made recordings in the late 30s and Dennis may have appeared in some of these as second horn. But his solo career really begins with the first performance and recording of Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, which was written for him and Peter Pears, and in which he was able to display his range of technique and expression. At this time, and at the age of 21, he was appointed first horn of Sidney Beer's National Symphony Orchestra, and his distinctive tone can be heard on their recordings, such as Falla's El Amor Brujo, Elgar's In the South and Wagner's Siegfried's Rhine Journey. Drafted into the Royal Air Force, he continued to establish his position with a famous recording of Beethoven's Horn Sonata with the.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - One of the most successful versions was the one produced in 1935 by Henry Blanke and directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt. It was adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. Several notables were in the cast: James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell and Victor Jory. The film won two Academy Awards: Best Cinematography - Hal Mohr Best Film Editing - Ralph Dawson Nominated for: Best Picture - Henry Blanke, producer Best Assistant Director - Sherry Shourds Notably, Hal Mohr was not nominated for his work on the movie; he won the Oscar thanks to a grass-roots write-in campaign. The next year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declared that it would not accept write-in votes for the awards. Other.
Aksel Schiøtz - Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, 1931. At the Glyndebourne Festival in 1946, he alternated with Peter Pears in the part of 'Male Chorus' in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. However, more than as an opera singer, he is remembered for his interpretaion of Danish songs and Schubert's and Schumann's Lieder, as well as songs by Bellman. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark (1940-1945), he achieved great popularity for his recording of Danish songs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. From 1955 to 1957 he was professor of music at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis..
Aldeburgh - 400 years, and it still is. It also houses the local museum. Outside the town, the Maltings at Snape is the venue for a well-known classical music festival every June. It is the largest one in England. The Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears. (Britten died in Aldeburgh in 1976.) Geography Aldeburgh is located at 52°09'00" North, 01°35'00" West (52.1500, -1.5833)1..
Aldeburgh Festival - every year in June at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, in the 15th century church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and in the Jubilee Hall. Further venues nearby include Snape, Orford, Blythburgh and Framlingham. The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composers Sir Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier and the singer Sir Peter Pears. Several of Britten's operas were premiered at the festival, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and Death in Venice (1973). Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy was also first heard there in 1968. See also: Festivals in the United Kingdom.
Tenor - been well known for other types of music, who have concentrated on concert performances either with orchestras, or in chamber music, such as lieder or song recitals. These performers may be better known for this kind of work than for opera. Examples might include performers such as John Heddle-Nash, Richard Lewis, John McCormack, Peter Pears, Robert Tear, Alexander Young. It would be wrong to say that tenors only sing in opera, or that they only sing in lieder, but some have spent more of their efforts in certain types of singing than in others. It is often applied to instruments to indicate their range in relation to other instruments of the same group. For instance the tenor saxophone. The name "tenor" comes from the Latin word tenere, which means "to hold"..
Benjamin Britten - 1942 and died in Aldeburgh. Some of his works were based on British folk songs, and they, like many of his operatic roles, were intended to be sung by his partner, the tenor Peter Pears. Britten founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948 and became a life peer in 1976. One of Britten's best known works is the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946), which was composed to accompany Instruments of the Orchestra, an educational film produced by the British government. It has the subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, and takes a melody from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar as its central theme. Britten gives individual variations to each of the instruments in the orchestra, starting with the woodwind, then the string instruments, the brass instruments and finally the.
War Requiem - throughout, the tenor and baritone sing poems by Wilfred Owen. The overall effect is sombre and Britten presents war as both devastating and futile. For the opening performance, it was intended that the soloists should be Galina Vishnevskaya (a Russian), Peter Pears (an Englishman) and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (a German), to demonstrate a spirit of unity. Unfortunately the USSR did not permit Vishnevskaya to travel to Coventry for the event and, at short notice, she was replaced by Heather Harper. A famous recording, featuring Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau and Pears, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Britten, was produced in 1963. Another recording, featuring Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear and Thomas Allen, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle is available. An interpretation of Britten's War Requiem was performed.
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Royal College of Music - the public. Famous students of the RCM have included: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), composer Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), composer Leopold Stokowski (1882 - 1977), conductor George Butterworth (1885 - 1916), composer Arthur Bliss (1891 - 1975), composer Eugène Goossens (1893 - 1962), conductor Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951), composer Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), composer Peter Pears (1910 - 1986), singer Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), composer Charles Groves (1915 - 1992), conductor Neville Marriner (born 1924), conductor Joan Sutherland (born 1926), singer Colin Davis (born 1927), conductor James Galway (born 1939), flautist John Williams (born 1941), guitarist Thomas Allen (born 1944), singer Andrew Davis (born 1944), conductor John Lill (born 1944), pianist Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer.
List of English people - murderer Harold Shipman, (1946-2004), serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper Economists William Beveridge, (1879-1963), economist and social reformer John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946), economist Thomas Malthus, (1766-1834), demographer Alfred Marshall, (1842-1924), economist John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher Engineers Benjamin Baker, (1840-1907), engineer Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), engineer James Brindley, (1716-1772), engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806-1859), engineer Sidney Camm, engineer William Tierney Clark, (1783-1852), civil engineer Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882 - 1965), aeronautical engineer John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), electrical engineer R.J. Mitchell, (1895-1937), aeronautical engineer Samuel Morton Peto, (1809-1889), railways, harbours Henry Royce, (1863-1933), engineer Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer Richard Trevithick, (1771-1833), engineer Barnes Wallis, (1887-1978), engineer Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine Joseph Whitworth, (1803-1887), engineer Entrepreneurs Richard Branson, (born 1950) Abraham Darby,.
List of encyclopedias - Heinrich Zedler. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon Nationalencyklopedin: encyclopedia in Swedish Nordisk familjebok: encyclopedia in Swedish Oracle Encyclopædia: a five volume encyclopedia published in 1895. Pears Cyclopaedia: a one volume encylopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom. World Book: designed for family use, World Book claims to be the world's best selling print encyclopedia. On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or a website Encyclopædia Britannica. See also the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. AllRefer.com: Columbia Encyclopedia Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: only available in electronic form. Enciclopedia Libre: project to create a Spanish encyclopedia using wiki software. Released under the GNU Free Documentation License. EncycloZine: an online encyclopedia of books and knowledge. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an electronic encyclopedia published by Grolier. Informationsphere.com: originally founded as an online German language encyclopedia, now in English. Managed by Jan Keller and based in Germany..
List of books by title: P - du Maurier (1950) Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret Olwen Macmillan and Richard Holbrooke (2002) The Parsifal Mosaic - Robert Ludlum (1982) The Partner - John Grisham (1997) A Passage to India - E. M. Forster (1924) Passenger - Thomas Keneally (1979) A Passion in Rome - Morley Callaghan (1961) The Passions of the Mind - Irving Stone (1971) The Past Through Tomorrow - Robert A. Heinlein (1967) Pastoral - Nevil Shute The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum (1913) Patriot Games - Tom Clancy (1987) Pattern Recognition - William Gibson (2003) Paul Verlaine - Stefan Zweig The Pawnbroker - Edward Lewis Wallant (1961) Pears Cyclopaedia, encyclopedia Pebble In The Sky - Isaac Asimov (1950) Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo (1955) Pere Goriot - Honore.
List of famous pairs - (colleagues; entertainers) Atlas & Gazetteer (equipment; complementary) B The Babbitt & the Bromide Battledore & Shuttlecock (equipment; complementary) Bacon & eggs (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary; food) Bambi & Thumper (fictional; companions) Barnes & Noble (commercial partnership) Barnum & Bailey (commercial partnership) Baskin & Robbins (commercial partners) Bass & treble (conceptual; technical; antitheses) Bathroom & W.C (proverbial/idiomatic; complementary) (British usage) The two essential hygienic plumbing facilities. Batman and Robin (fictional; colleagues) Beany & Cecil (fictional; companions; animated cartoons; television) Beavis & Butthead (fictional; companions) Bed and breakfast (proverbial/idiomatic) Ben & Jerry (commercial partners) Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (colleagues; couples) Bert & Ernie (fictional; companions; puppets; television) Creations of Jim Henson, possibly named after characters in It's a Wonderful Life Big-endian & Little-endian (fictional; opposing factions) Creations of Jonathan Swift. Satirized homoousia & homoiousia,.
John Pearson - the lord-keeper Finch, by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk. In the Civil War he acted as chaplain to George Goring's forces in the west. In 1654 he was made weekly preacher at St Clement's, Eastcheap, in London. With Peter Gunning he disputed against two Roman Catholics on the subject of schism, a one-sided account of which was printed in Paris by one of the Roman Catholic disputants, under the title Scisme Unmask't (1658). Pearson also argued against the Puritan party, and was much interested in Brian Walton's polyglot Bible. In 1659 he published in London his celebrated Exposition of the Creed, dedicated to his parishioners of St Clement's, Eastcheap, to whom the substance of the work had been preached several years before. In the same.
Jan Peter Balkenende - Jan Peter Balkenende Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende (born May 7, 1956, officially Jan Pieter Balkenende) became Prime Minister of the Netherlands on July 22, 2002, heading the first Balkenende cabinet and the second Balkenende cabinet. He began his career on the staff of the research institute of the Christen Democratisch Appèl (CDA) political party and was also a member of the council of Amstelveen. Afterwards he became a special professor of "Christian social thinking" at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He became a member of the CDA faction in the lower house of parliament (the Tweede Kamer) on May 19, 1998, while the party was in opposition. He became the financial spokesman of the CDA and was also involved with social affairs, justice and internal affairs. He.
