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...He’d worked in the newspaper business, getting his start in a newsroom when he was 10 years old, at the paper owned by his father....
...(see above), The Orchestra Now will be performing Symphony No 2 in G minor: “Song of a New Race” by African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978)....
...Nogueira paused, rubbed his hands briefly and launched himself upon Bach’s Prelude in G Minor....
...At its core, the teaching of piano technique at the conservatoire still stems from the conventions developed by the two founding fathers of piano playing — Liszt and Chopin — augmented only by wisdom from...
...She recently sent to Manchin a private message literally on a silver platter — one given to her by her good friend, the late West Virginia senator Robert C Byrd, a hero of Manchin’s....
...for “rape of a minor over 15 and sexual harassment”....
...Michael was interested in ideology and ideas. Jeremy was more a small-c managerial conservative.”...
...My father, Charles Hill, was one of London’s last artisanal tie makers, who went into business with Michael Drake; his shirts were beautifully made by my great grandfather, Leslie Brown, himself a tie and...
...Invented by “E. and C. Le Guin and L. Howell”, it was played with Scrabble letters....
...Ruing the mishap, he enlisted his friend Zubair Latib — a fellow day-trading musician who had cashed out his $6,000 from XIV just four days before its implosion — and wrote a lament, set to the melody of...
...“He’s the sort of man that wears a double Windsor”, retorted my friend’s father at a garden party. His mild tone and slightly raised eyebrow added insult to injury. A touch harsh, or entirely fair?...
...The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, by Hisham Matar, Viking, RRP£14.99/Random House, RRP$26 The kidnap of his father, a Libyan dissident, from Cairo in 1990 by Colonel Gaddafi’s secret police...
...The next day he told me what it was like to be a moderate Republican from Kansas landing in the Deep South in the late 1950s and finding racial segregation that offended his moral sensibilities (his father...
...My great friend Aly turned up with her daughters, out of the blue. It was, quietly, sort of magical, alchemical, spiritual. “I think that’s the most spontaneous thing I have ever done,” said Father G....
...People interviewed for this article likened WPP to ITT in the US, where Harold Geneen was CEO until 1977, or Hanson, the industrial group assembled by James Hanson and Gordon White in the 1970s and 1980s...
...His father was a Cape coloured bus driver and his mother, who was of Irish extraction, was obliged to declassify herself in order to marry his father....
...As he did with all clients, Morvillo and his second son, Greg, who was enlisted by his father to work on the case, explained to Kumar that if he wanted to cooperate and strike a deal with the government—promising...
...Her half-brother Michael G. Wilson, however, came to the movie business by a more circuitous route....
...… When US department chain JC Penney launched a Father’s Day campaign this year, depicting real-life gay fathers Todd Koch and Cooper Smith playing with their children, threats of a boycott by the Christian...
...As his biographer and friend, Harry Thompson (the late producer and writer of Have I Got News for You) noted, Ingrams has a strong melancholic streak – surely not helped by the early passing of his father...
...Brutalised by his father and unable to form a happy relationship with his American wife Florence, it was Ismay who decided that 48 lifeboats would be an extravagance too far....
...His father Michael, a landowner who became Margaret Thatcher’s first chief whip in the House of Commons, “had a flat in John Islip Street next to Tate....
...By page 12 he has left Europe on a ship. When he next reaches land, it’s in the Sahara....
...smaller though the service – to my ear – even lovelier, including Harold Darke’s arrangement of the Magnificat in A Minor....
...the memoir by her friend Marlon Brando)....
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