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...The evening began with a single trumpet note sustained over a minor key piano and mallets seething underneath....
...Two years later, in the winter of 1907-08, Vaughan Williams travelled to Paris to study composition under Maurice Ravel....
...“It clearly sounds very suspicious, but it could be a minor thing — we just don’t know,” the person said. (It’s not the first time a company has put off an annual report....
...The album’s highlight, alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi’s “EU (Emotionally Unavailable)”, is a pensive late-night groove that fuels atmospheric slabs of brass and minor-key strums with forceful hip-hop beats...
...Elsewhere, splayed arpeggios, plunked strings and rumbustious gospel trills introduced “Wait and See”; a new tune — title as yet undecided — moved from minor to a major key....
...The band’s ad hoc interplay is exhibited early when Sheila Maurice-Grey’s trumpet trill is echoed by Femi Koleoso’s drums; later, Binker Golding uses her off-the-cuff finale to launch his first tenor sax...
...“It’s all disrespect — which can be from something very minor to something very major.”...
...She segued, with no break for applause, from the 20th-century modernism of Webern’s Four Pieces, Op 7, to the 19th-century romanticism of Schumann’s Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 121....
...Romanian riot police detain a man after minor clashes erupted during a protest in Bucharest, Romania....
...These are works that Sudbin treats freely in translating them from harpsichord to piano, beginning languorously with the D minor Sonata (Kk213)....
...The thing Maurice “Moz” Giles remembers most about the first Latitude Festival in 2006 is just how quiet it was....
...De Beers believes the majority of those which are not will need to make only minor adjustments to adhere to the rules....
...His immense judicial dignity lets minor personages – such as the chairman of the Fed – know where they stand in the scheme of life....
...However, Maurice Tulloch, who runs Aviva’s UK general insurance arm, urged ministers to do more....
...Then in early July came an attack of mildew, which produced only minor damage. Grape worm caused more serious problems....
...That led to some minor internal tension last month, when a provincial representative in the country’s north quit the party because he found the anti-Islam campaign “stale”....
...The struggle to rebuild House of Reeves has been an all-consuming task for the family, who have rallied behind their 80-year-old father Maurice in their pledge to reopen the premises....
...There have been some minor rumbles of dissent from within the wine trade, however....
...Of all the novelties that stream out of Basel and SIHH each year, a new colour sounds a minor addition. Colour in watchmaking is mainly limited to dials and straps....
...The case of the late Maurice Papon has much in common with Mr Polanski’s....
...Koestler had a minor nervous breakdown on hearing Kollek’s details and immediately wrote a novel called Arrival & Departure, in which he prophetically described mass killings – in fact a pale foretaste of...
...Kubin, the self-taught Austrian eccentric who is now the focus of a reverential exhibition at the Neue Galerie, was a minor artist who cunningly tapped into a fellowship of disgust....
...It would make a “minor” difference in most cases, even if it had a broader psychological impact on the housing market, said Maurice Fitzpatrick, head of tax at Grant Thornton, the accountants....
...He slogged through minor tournaments in places such as Teheran....
...In Athens, the US will be looking to Maurice Greene to lift some of the gloom that hangs over American track and field and to help restore its good name....
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