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Sweet Berg. (Alban Berg)
The Economist (US)
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January 25, 1992
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TOGETHER with Arnold Schoenberg, A who was his teacher, Alban Berg usually shares the blame for "new music", the revolution in composing practice that sprang out of Vienna in the first decade of this century. This movement, which was paralleled by the advent of modernism in art and literature, has produced some of the most daunting and intellectually strenuous pieces in the musical repertoire. But Berg himself was something of a paradox-as has been revealed during a three-day festival at London's Barbican centre.
Berg, as much as Schoenberg, wanted to do away with ...
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The secret Skye family of Ramsay MacDonald
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...tree he is mapping is that of Ramsay MacDonald, the country's first Labour...of National Unity in 1931, Ramsay MacDonald has become a neglected historical...are sitting in the house of Ramsay MacDonald's second cousin. Ramsay...
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The lad from Lossiemouth: John Shepherd says it's time to reappraise the political reputation of Ramsay MacDonald, who died seventy years ago this month.(CROSS CURRENT)(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...death, from a heart attack, of Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of Britain...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The name of Ramsay MacDonald remains irretrievably linked...secretary, published The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald in 1938, which demonized his...
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Great Scots: ramsay MacDonald 1866-1937
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...politics and of human affairs. Ramsay MacDonald's failure, though, was more...rouble had gone into freefall. MacDonald chose country over party interest...to begin at the beginning, Ramsay MacDonald was from the humblest of Morayshire...
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THE LASSIES OF NO.10; As PM, Ramsay MacDonald kept in touch with his Scottish roots by employing his old neighbours from Morayshire... the gaggle of girls who put the Doric in Downing Street.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Tony Blair would have made of Ramsay MacDonald's somewhat unorthodox roll of...the Moray fishing village where MacDonald grew up. They enjoyed meeting...in his second spell in office, MacDonald felt pretty much the same way...
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James Ramsay MacDonald; TIMESPAST
Newspaper article from: Evening Times
; ...Prime Minister was Scots-born James Ramsay MacDonald. The illegitimate son of a maidservant, MacDonald was born in 1866 in Lossiemouth. In...Zinoviev Com-munist scandal forced MacDonald's party out of office in 1924 but his...
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Critics of Empire: Bernard Porter says that today's advocates of humanitarian intervention would do well to ponder what J. A. Hobson and Ramsay MacDonald had to say a century ago about the dangers of liberal imperialism.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...capitalist theory' alongside him: Ramsay MacDonald, later famous (or notorious...thought to the question of Empire. MacDonald too recognized the genuineness...had Tony Blair in mind.) But, MacDonald went on to say, that wasn't...
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Tony Blair: the Ramsay MacDonald of our age; One of Labour's most controversial Left-wingers on why he believes the Prime Minister is a traitor to his own party.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...its people's interests and their safety u or those acting as agents of a foreign power? Who, exactly, is betraying whom? Ramsay Mac-D o n a l d , Labour's first Premier in 1924, was the golden boy of British Labour politics, as gifted a communicator...
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Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...restaurant L'Escargot, said Ramsay epitomised the "sexist" catering...industry because of attitudes like Ramsay's." Claire Macdonald, owner of the Kinlcoh Lodge...Masterchef judge, dismissed Ramsay's comments as pathetic. She...
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MacDonald and Lossiemouth.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: History Today
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...firm, while Dundee's James Macdonald remains the definitive voice of...goes to Lossiemouth's James Ramsay MacDonald, now curiously regarded as...Crash to cause a Cabinet split. MacDonald became reviled as the pawn of...
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