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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....
...One image from Ethel Smyth’s life sticks in the memory....
...Ethel Smyth, a leading figure among the suffragettes and too long neglected as a composer, is suddenly in the spotlight again....
...Following Glyndebourne’s bracing revival of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Garsington’s Orfeo, which has the expert English Concert as its instrumental ensemble, is up there with the best....
.... ★★★☆☆ To July 3, thegrangefestival.co.uk Having opened its season with the first professional production in the UK of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Glyndebourne can be forgiven for making a popular choice...
...But more than that, you know, there’s got to be an overall calculus, as in the [Richard] Nixon case, about the good of the country.”...
...How typical of Smyth to make such an individual contribution to the English oratorio tradition. ★★★★☆ ‘Ethel Smyth: The Prison’ is released by Chandos...
...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....
...father, the King, and is sentenced to ride naked on horseback through the town, finally ending in a pool of blood on the floor — all because she did not want to get married, especially not to a man called Ethel...
...Richard Roxburgh also brings plenty of roguish charm and lightly worn existential angst to the role....
...In 1903, the British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth had two performances of her opera Der Wald. “This little woman writes music with a masculine hand,” judged one contemporary critic....
...David took a 10-year-old William to see another aunt, Ethel, a sculptor. “She was really inspirational,” he recalls....
...At a time when even some US presidential candidates are sticking up for the whistleblower Edward Snowden, Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair reminds us that more grievous turncoats rarely aroused...
...Warhol based his many versions of the electric chair used to execute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason in 1953 on an utterly bland and matter-of-fact archival photo that he borrowed from the New York...
...The photographer was Richard Avedon, and a monumental version of this image of the artist as martyr introduces a smart, glamorous exhibition, Avedon Warhol, launching next week at London’s Gagosian Gallery...
...“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....
...They detect the influence of the blues on the raucous comedy of Richard Pryor, for example, but not his white counterpart Lenny Bruce....
...Everything in the show belongs to collector Richard Harris, a former prints dealer from Chicago. He started collecting, as he tells me at the Wellcome, “inadvertently”....
...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...
...The ageless Richard Thomas portrays Strickland, and if his professorial-looking character is a billionaire, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. ()...
...A first commission followed immediately: from collector Robert Scull, for a portrait of his wife Ethel, who, designer-dressed, expected to trip off to Richard Avedon’s studio to be photographed for the silkscreen...
...After lunch we go to a tea party at Hickory Hill, Ethel Kennedy’s estate in Virginia, and almost every woman under 36 is in DVF....
...The Quarter, Vermont and joint-venture financier Ethel Austin Properties’ big hotel, office and apartment project in Liverpool, appears to be safely held in a special-purpose vehicle although construction...
...Other old names, in contrast, remain stubbornly out of favour, such as Deirdre, Ethel and Gertrude for girls and Norman, Percy and Walter for boys....
...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....
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