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...The work is written for choir, soprano, baritone soloists and orchestra, with the addition of celesta, organ and a small battery of tuned percussion, including xylophone, gongs, bells and more....
...But Steven Gong, one of the partners, is bemused at the geopolitical furore....
...Up to six prizes, worth $3m apiece, are awarded across the life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics, making them the most lucrative individual gongs for science (the Nobel Prizes are each worth...
...Russell Maliphant’s mantelpiece must be groaning with awards — two Oliviers, three Southbank Shows and sundry lesser gongs — but his crepuscular abstractions remain an acquired taste....
...Composers from John Cage to Colin McPhee to Benjamin Britten have been fascinated by gamelan’s resistance to expectation, its implacable demand that the listener should surrender to the flow....
...Benjamin Quinlan, chief executive of Quinlan & Associates, estimates that even excluding the independent research boutiques, banks and brokerages send out more than 40,000 articles a week....
...The bamboo clock struck at 4:53am, and if anyone managed to sleep through that, there was half an hour of sonorous gong-banging to follow....
...Benjamin Joffe, chief executive of Plus Eight Star, a digital strategy consultancy, says: “Investors love to recognise something they know.”...
...Likewise, Squarepusher’s aggressively titled “Acid Gong” turns out to be a gentle jangle....
...We are the supreme film-world gong and guerdon.” How does that claim prove itself? How does that supremacy go forth and manifest its message?...
...Then both hammers strike both gongs alternately to count out the quarter-hours after that hour, and then the second hammer by itself strikes a gong of higher tonality, counting out the minutes after that...
...How good to see gong-givers recognise that good acting can be covert, not overt, and that in the right artistic acoustic a performer doesn’t need to shout to be heard....
...His bestselling title, The Alchemist, was recently included among Britain’s 100 favourite books in a BBC survey, and awarded an industry gong for sales of more than half a million copies in the British market...
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