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...Requiem was premiered by Cranko’s Stuttgart company in 1976, the hidebound board of the Royal Opera House having vetoed MacMillan’s use of Gabriel Fauré’s sacred score....
...In the 1770s, the newborn United States sent two commissioners to Paris, Benjamin Franklin and the future American president John Adams....
...John-Mikaël Flaux is mentoring this year’s final-year class at Lycée Edgar Faure. He argues that the need for the “Swiss-made” label isn’t crucial any more. “I’m French,” he says (he’s from Brittany)....
...@jellison22 Letter in response to this article: Philosophical approach to fridge contents is revealing / From John Gaffney, Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE...
...John Holiday is the singer, stretching valiantly up to notes that other countertenors might find out of reach....
...Alongside other public intellectuals such as John McWhorter and Kmele Foster, Williams is a prominent figure in a kind of counter-movement pushing back against the radical and uncompromising doctrines of...
...Faure Gnassingbé said that his government had not decided whether to issue a Eurobond, seek a syndicated loan or borrow from a multilateral organisation like the World Bank, in the wake of a credit rating...
...It is a fair bet that the most popular webcast will be The Gesualdo Six’s other concert, Fauré’s Requiem with members of the London Mozart Players....
...point of collapse, please make time for one more: the rarefied company of aristocrats, stars, geniuses, beauties, heirs and overachievers who have come together at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum for John...
...Faure Gnassingbé told the Financial Times that jihadis based in Burkina Faso were starting to make incursions into Togo and neighbouring Ghana....
...Whether it is really the best bargain since Félix Faure was president of the Third Republic in 1895 is beside the point....
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...Sir Martin and the two fellow board members of S4 — Paul Roy, chairman of Sky Bet, and Rupert Faure Walker, the managing director of HSBC Investment Banking — are all above retirement age....
...And it was visited by luminaries from Emperor Joseph II to Fauré, Joseph Addison and a very young Mozart....
...Clarke has performed with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner and ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment....
...Now the storm has passed, everyone talks to everyone else to ask how they are and Thomas Faure told me he was a property developer. “A week ago I felt like packing up . . ....
...John Rutter Requiem Aurora Orchestra (Collegium Records) Out of a viewing of the manuscript of Fauré’s Requiem came the inspiration for another....
...John is the proud owner of a Pavoni, and claims to have had no difficulty working it....
...His sacred score, which rumbles and rambles onward if not upward for nearly 90 minutes, is supposed to be reminiscent of Fauré and Verdi. That covers an awkward span....
...Its subject is Fauré’s Requiem, marvellously realised some years ago by Kenneth MacMillan as a tribute to John Cranko....
...I particularly remember having lots of Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, Milhaud, Satie and Messiaen, as I was going through a phase of loving French music....
...Before he takes up further similar assignments, may I suggest he familiarise himself with Charles and John Wesley, J.S. Bach and Fauré, for starters?...
...that the three pieces were all first staged in Germany: Concerto was his guide to classical dancing made for the Deutsche Oper Ballet in Berlin when he became its director; Las Hermanas was created at John...
...of the City Chamber Choir, a fine advocate for the Rutter score and the Fauré Pavane (whose words are fête galante poesy by, of all people, Robert de Montesquiou)....
...As a teacher, he was much the same, according to pianist John York, who studied composition with him....
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