Samothrace
Samothrace or Samothráki , island (1991 pop. 3,083), c.71 sq mi (184 sq km), NE Greece, in the Aegean Sea. The main town is Samothrace, or Samothráki, located on the northwest shore. The island is largely mountainous, rising to c.5,575 ft (1,700 m) on Mt. Fengari. In ancient times Samothrace was an important center of worship. There are ruins of a religious sanctuary, some of which date to the 6th cent. BC The famous statue of the winged Nike (or Victory ) of Samothrace, built c.200 BC to adorn a ship and later transferred to the island, was discovered on Samothrace in 1863 and is now in the Louvre in Paris. The island was ceded to Greece by the Ottoman Empire in 1913.
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John Knowles Paine.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...accomplished American composer John Knowles Paine. Paine was born in Portland, Maine in...attitudes are nowhere in evidence in John C. Schmidt's preface to the new A-R edition. His description of Paine as "among the first American composers...
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John Knowles Paine. (Organ Music).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; John Knowles Paine. The Complete Organ Works. Edited by Wayne Leupold and Murray Forbes...previously been difficult to obtain. The organ works of American composers John Knowles Paine (1839-1906), Arthur Foote (1853-1937), and Horatio Parker...
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'ST. PETER' CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF JOHN KNOWLES PAINE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/8/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...point is GM's new two-CD set of John Knowles Paine's "St. Peter: An Oratorio...was in Portland, Maine, where Paine was born in 1839, and the first...session after the performance. Paine was the first American composer...
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CLASSICAL RAFAEL DRUIAN, VIOLIN; BENJAMIN PASTERNACK, PIANO SCHULLER: DUOLOGUE PAINE: SONATA IN B MINOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/8/1988; ; 502 words
; ...together with the B-Minor Sonata of John Knowles Paine, a composer for whom Schuller has...raptness that is quite indrawing. The Paine is a more conventional work, a...in the oratorio "St. Peter" by Paine. DYER ;08/23 LDRISC;09/08...
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Historic: Presidents' Paine reaches 1,000 kills
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...High School senior Andrew Paine is the latest addition...in the third game after Paine attained the mark during...Twin brother Brendan Paine set a school record for...will throw sophomore ace John Magliozzi against fellow...5-5, 3-4). Alex Knowles homered in the sixth and...
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Paine notches an ace
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.; 9/27/2007; 700+ words
; AUBURN - Richard Paine of 11 Ryans Way, Auburn, registered a...Jennifer Schubert, 72; 3. Judy Lee, Jill Knowles, Debora Manzi, Hilda Wynne, 73; 4...6'2"; Arnie Benner, #10, 6'; John Henderson, #13, 5'7"; Roger Conley...
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TO HEAR IT WAS TO CHEER IT, BUT A POEM BROUGHT IT HOME
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/8/1987; ; 700+ words
; John Knowles Paine (1839 - was the Leon Kirchner of his day...where was the first BSO performance of Paine's Second Symphony? When given its premiere...to wave handkerchiefs, men to cheer and John S. Dwight of Dwight's Music Journal...
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Clergy Formation in Music: Long-Cherished Dreams Come to Life
Magazine article from: Pastoral Music; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...years after Mason's speech in Boston, in 1876, John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) became the first professor of music...appointment in music to be awarded in this country. John Knowles Paine was an entrepreneur in the lineage of Lowell Mason...
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Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski.
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...1862, the great American composer John Knowles Paine began what would be a forty-three...nation, as well as from abroad. Paine's own roster of students (though...Converse, Daniel Gregory Mason, John Alden Carpenter, and Edward Burlingame...
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FVS Shakespeare tribute not quite `As You Like It'
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the FVS started the concert with John Knowles Paine's 1876 work, "As You Like It...28. You will not find works by Paine included on many concerts these...much value in his compositions. Paine's music has little unique character...
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John Knowles Paine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine (1839-1905), American composer and music educator, was especially instrumental in organizing music courses for the college curriculum. John Knowles Paine was born on Jan. 9, 1839, in Portland, Maine...
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Paine, John Knowles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Paine, John Knowles ( b Portland, Maine, 1839; d Cambridge, Mass., 1906). Amer. composer, organist, and teacher. Became instructor in mus...
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Bands, Orchestras, and Touring Troupes
Book article from: American Eras
...composers of the age—John Knowles Paine (1839-1906), Dudley Buck (1839...with traditional American rhythms. John Philip Sousa. Born into a lower...family in Washington, D.C., John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) grew...
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Bible, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Composers like William Billings (1746–1800) and John Knowles Paine (1839–1906) wrote musical settings for...William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and John Steinbeck 's East of Eden (1952). Ever since religious...
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1878-1899: The Arts: Chronology
Book article from: American Eras
...The Marshes of Glynn”; John Greenleaf Whittier, The Vision of...Central Park in uptown Manhattan. John Knowles Paine’s Second Symphony premieres...Somebody’s Neighbors; John William De Forest
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