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Aloha, Canada: if only Sir Sandford Fleming had succeeded in his 1894 ambition to annex a Hawaiian island.(Biography)
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It was a cloudy day in Ottawa June 2.8, 1894, when photographer G.R. Lancefield focused his lens on an unprecedented gathering in the Senate Chamber. Representatives of the British colonies of New Zealand, five Australian states, and South Africa were meeting with ministers of the Canadian government and officials from Britain.
This was the first time imperial and colonial representatives had met outside of Britain. They had gathered to discuss proposals made by the Canadian government to increase trade among the British colonies. In addition, they had gathered to ...
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LUCIANO PAVAROTTI WITH LEONE MAGIERA, PIANO LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: LIVE RECITAL SONGS AND ARIAS BY BONONCINI, BEETHOVEN, SCARLATTI, BELLINI, PUCCINI, TOSTI, DONIZETTI, CILEA AND VERDI DECCA
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; While we are waiting for the video of Luciano Pavarotti's concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of his debut (which reportedly contains some spectacularly temperamental backstage antics by Angela Gheorghiou), the tenor's career-long record label, Decca, provides a disc of live recordings culled
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ALESSANDRINI BRINGS GUSTO TO H & H
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...contemporaries, the brothers Giovanni and Antonio Bononcini. In his day, Giovanni Bononcini was internationally famous and Handel's great...hear from a period-instrument group. Antonio Bononcini wound up in Modena, the city that produced...
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Camilla.
Magazine article from: Notes
; Giovanni Bononcini's opera Il trionfo di Camilla was...performances. Lowell Lindgren, the Bononcini expert to whom we are indebted for these...Frideric Handel - or, for that matter, of Bononcini himself in his later years. Shorter...
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BARTOLI'S SOPRANO STEALS HEARTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...group of pieces by Vivaldi, Gluck, Bononcini, and Broschi. Not all of them were...famous melody was actually composed by Bononcini, who used it in another tempo (not...however, like the Gluck arias and the Bononcini, Bartoli is sublime. She ravishes the...
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From Harmonia Mundi, a Sampling of Nicholas McGegan's Versatility
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...and a rival opera composer, Giovanni Bononcini. Each act was a self-contained story...now mercifully forgotten), Act 2 by Bononcini and Act 3 by Handel. Handel was declared the winner - though Bononcini's music is by no means negligible...
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HARROWING EXPERIENCE FOR SUBMERGED DRIVER AFTER FLIP.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...hydroplane race about an hour after Phil Bononcini of Redmond toppled in his unlimited light...in satisfactory condition last night. Bononcini had a cut on his face and bruised his...more like wreckage than a racing hull. Bononcini came out of it in better shape than his...
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CLEF'S NOTES.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...a mastery of string orchestration and a fetching American quality. GIOVANNI BONONCINI Giovanni Bononcini died in London on this day in 1747. He was 77. Bononcini was the second-most-acclaimed composer in London...in Handel's day...
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Luciano Pavarotti in Recital
Magazine article from: Opera News
; Luciano Pavarotti in Recital Selections by Bizet, Bononcini, Caldara, de Curtis, di Capua, Donizetti, Gluck...executed messa di voce and appoggiaturas even, as in Bononcini's "Per la gloria d'adorarvi," a pretty decent trill...
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Moschetta e Grullo/Mirena e Floro
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; SARRI Moschetta e Grullo. GASPARINI/BONONCINI Mirena e Floro * Kathleen Van De Graaff (sop); Peter Van...the central one was composed by the more familiar Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747). The occasion for which it was written is...
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Glass' new opera on WCRB
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...opera by Handel and his rival, the Italian composer Giovanni Bononcini; each composed an act. The recording features Handel's act complete, with excerpts from Bononcini's act. The cast includes D'Anna Fortunato, Julianne Baird...
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