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...Ethel Smyth’s Piano Trio in D Minor (1880) invokes her youthful connections to Brahms in a weighty and well-argued score that foreshadows the strength of the major scores of her maturity....
...It was during his visit to Kuala Lumpur in 1921 that the lawyer EAS Wagner told Maugham of the notorious case 10 years earlier, in which he’d defended Ethel Proudlock, the wife of a local schoolmaster, accused...
...Major of Ethel Smyth, who, though never wholly forgotten, has long been marginalised by virtue of her gender....
...The following year, now pregnant with Ethel, she married the builder Sam Cooper. The reception was held at their 17th-century manor house in rural Gloucestershire....
...Sebba’s painstaking research pulls back the veil of historic projections to reveal an unloved daughter, fiercely loyal wife and passionately devoted mother, who’d dreamed of becoming an opera singer but...
..., whose house we’d spent weekends at and who’d come to live with us a few years before she died....
...“If he’d been a geologist,” he said, “I would have been a geologist.” Hammerstein, who knew Sondheim’s mother, was something of a surrogate father to Sondheim following his parents’ separation....
...I keep singing, “Make it another old-fashioned please,” with Ethel Merman’s caustic vibrato, but I’m not sure it’s helping....
...In 1912, at the height of the suffragette movement, Ethel Smyth was sentenced to two months in Holloway prison for smashing the windows of a cabinet minister....
...A full-length portrait of the suffragette Una Dugdale Duval by Ethel Wright depicts the campaigner as a fearless, red-lipped force of nature....
...Investors should demand that carveout (d) be deleted. 3) In-secure debt SRS apparently still has some loopholes in its bond covenants meant to limit the amount of secured debt it accumulates, Hallock said...
...If we’re really going to town, they’re joined by Elizabeth Maconchy, Ethel Smyth, maybe even Amy Beach. As far as most of the world is concerned, that’s all there is....
...Murrell couldn’t snare “Olympia” for the show — it is, after all, the Musée d’Orsay’s most indispensable headliner....
...“I was going to hire somebody to read into them, to pretend it was me, so that they’d be a little more . . . interesting,” he said....
...Instead, in our digital and memory-card era, we’d better call the movie a memory card game: a poignant heraldry of moving pictures that magic forth the wartime childhood, the milkman dad and jobbing mum,...
...He pointed out that it was his namesake who’d written the piece....
...At the Met, Robert Lepage’s production, already seen at the Festival d’Opéra de Québec, will reflect the music’s iridescent beauty....
...It’s a way of telling about ourselves in the hopes of being recognised as what we’d like to be.”...
...It is fairly decent he replied with a bashful glance at Ethel . . . ” The modern day super-rich should take note, but it’s not going to be easy for them....
...Ethel spoke this month of her former aide’s “big heart, quick wit, thoughtful generosity and caring spirit”....
...“When my mother was pregnant with me and my twin brother, she danced on Broadway in the original Annie Get Your Gun, so we were serenaded in the womb by Ethel Merman,” he says....
...I aim for a subtle fusion of high celebration, longing and muted hope and end up (on a good day) sounding like the baffled love child of Ethel Merman and Anita Brookner....
...I’d say to Michael, “When are we going to visit Mommy and Daddy again?” And he’d look at me and say, “We can’t. They’re dead.”...
...Gypsy, with Ethel Merman (1959) When the young Sondheim was invited to write the words and music for Gypsy, a musical loosely about striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, its star Ethel Merman was unimpressed...
...He married Joan Ethel Blacksley, of Fulham, west London, in 1942....
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