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...Then a cover of Ethel Waters’ subtle riposte to racial stereotyping captured on a 1933 recording of “Underneath the Harlem Moon”....
...A powerful speaker on the wider causes of cancer, who effortlessly packed lecture halls, he was notably lacking in arrogance, even after his Nobel award, Stanley says....
...Smyth’s Mass was being given in the Royal Albert Hall, where it premiered in 1893, though this was its Proms debut....
...Another encouraging sign is the recent opening of Pawa Café & Bar, just 250 metres away from Fed Square across Princes Bridge in the Hamer Hall concert venue....
...Ethel Smyth, a leading figure among the suffragettes and too long neglected as a composer, is suddenly in the spotlight again....
...Smyth was 72 by the time of its first performance in 1931 at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, which she conducted herself....
...That same year, Albert Einstein made a powerful speech in London’s Albert Hall to raise funds for the organisation....
...Full of expected gay icons — Cecil Beaton’s languorous images of gay socialite Stephen Tennant; Charles Buchel’s portrait of lesbian novelist “Radclyffe Hall” dressed as a man; Henry Scott Tuke’s breezy...
...David took a 10-year-old William to see another aunt, Ethel, a sculptor. “She was really inspirational,” he recalls....
...‘Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection’, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to May 15, ashmolean.org ‘Avedon Warhol’, Gagosian Gallery, London, February 9-April 23 gagosian.com Slideshow photographs: Hall...
...It’s 1593 and William Shakespeare is composing his masterpiece Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter....
...“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....
...Music-hall melodies waft through the theatre agreeably and oompah waltzes inject the evening with a steady pulse....
...Unwin’s cast of 12 constitutes a fine ensemble, but at its core is the principal couple, Frank (originally played by Coward) and Ethel....
...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...
...Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was quite a Dame. A progressive, dauntlessly prolific composer, she demanded and commanded her place in a man’s world. She hobnobbed with Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Dvorák....
...price: £14.39 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain By Oliver Sacks Picador £17.99, 400 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 On a Wednesday in 2001, stillness hung in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall...
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