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Gardiner, (Sir) John Eliot
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Gardiner, (Sir) John Eliot (
b Fontmell Magna, Dorset, 1943). Eng. conductor, great-nephew of Balfour
Gardiner. Founded Monteverdi Choir 1964, Monteverdi Orch. 1968, English Baroque Soloists (period instr.) 1978, and Orchestre révolutionnaire et romantique 1990. Prof. début 1966. Has made new edns. of Monteverdi's
Vespers (1967), and Rameau's
Dardanus, Les Fêtes d'Hébé, and
Les Boréades. Cond. f. staged p. of
Les Boréades, Aix 1982 and f. modern revival of Berlioz's
Mass, Paris 1993. SW début 1969; CG 1973. Youngest cond. to appear at Henry Wood Proms. (1968). Prin. cond. CBC Vancouver Orch. 1980–3, art. dir. Göttingen Handel Fest. 1981–90, mus. dir. Lyons Opera 1982–8. Salzburg début 1990. Prin. cond. N Ger. Radio Orch., Hamburg, 1991–4. At Lyons cond. operas by Charpentier, Handel, and Leclair, revived Chabrier's
L'Étoile and cond.
Pelléas et Mélisande in a score which was scrupulously close to Debussy's autograph. CBE 1990. Knighted 1998.
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George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento.(Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...as the Five Days, precipitated Eliot to write that she "should not be...Lombardy" (p. 32). One year before Eliot saw Lombardy for herself, Italy...sovereignty. As an assistant to John Chapman, Eliot commissioned for The Westminster...
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George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of course, well known that Eliot and her companion G. H. Lewes...transform society. Many friends of Eliot and Lewes were followers of...Charles Bray. Others, such as John Morley (perhaps the most influential...strong liberals. We know from Eliot's letters and from articles...
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Eliot's sources and "a cumulative plausibility": Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron. (T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling)(T.S. Eliot at 110)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...poems being listed among Eliot's books, c. August 1920...none of these Dobson > Eliot instances is a knock-down...remember the principle that Eliot himself invoked when reviewing Violet M. Jeffery's John Lyly and the Italian Renaissance...
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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Schuchard evidently began to see that Eliot's relation to French and Italian...the March Hare drew attention to Eliot's sources not only in Dante...Kipling, Lionel Johnson, and John Davidson. "Eliot was the last of the poets of the...
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T. S. Eliot's "Uranian Muse": The Verdenal Letters.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...caesarean Operation," pointed Eliot in the direction of obscuring...his poetry? My book T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism...poem to my enterprise, as had John Peter earlier in two important...young man who died by drowning. Eliot's solicitor threatened a libel...
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T. S. Eliot and Pyre of Youth: The Fugitive Poetry of Robert Penn Warren.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...strong-willed leader, John Crowe Ransom, Tate championed...was reluctant to endorse Eliot as heartily as his precocious...his head was "too full of John Ford and John Webster and William Blake and T. S. Eliot" (Talking 29). Yet his...
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T.S. Eliot: a life.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/28/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...perceptively points out that Eliot expressed his deepest feelings...poetry. The central drama of Eliot's life was his marriage to...Dostoyevsky novel badly rewritten by John Middleton Murry. Lady Ottoline Morrell noted that the young Eliot had already "lost all spontaneity...
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George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; George Eliot and Schiller. Intertextuality and Cross...00 [pounds sterling]. Although George Eliot's preoccupation with Goethe is better...knowledge, which is plentiful, and argues that Eliot was particularly drawn to the force of his...
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George Eliot and culture.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...biblical prophecy. George Eliot's early letters reveal...the Apocalypse of St. John as a mirror of 'continuous...schemes), Daniel Deronda (Eliot's radical interpretation...The Legend of Jubal (Eliot's feminist and humanist...patriarchal and elitist poems in John Keble's The Christian...
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T.S. Eliot's ghostly compound: Coleridge and Whitman in 'Little Gidding II.'
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...allegedly, "have forgotten" (Eliot 218). Yeats's case is by now...commentaries and our access to Eliot's correspondence with John Hayward, cited in The Composition...Two other poets whose influence Eliot had snuggled hard to overcome...
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Eliot, T. S.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
T. S. Eliot Born: September 26, 1888St...and commentary was written. Eliot was also writing anonymous...Sacred Wood (1920), Homage to John Dryden (1924), Selected...recovering from exhaustion in 1921, Eliot wrote The Waste Land, one...
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Eliot, Charles (1834–1926)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
ELIOT, CHARLES (1834 – 1926) During Charles Eliot's forty-year tenure as president of Harvard, he helped...The son of a prominent Bostonian businessman, Charles Eliot entered Harvard in 1849. After graduating second in his...
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John Eliot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Eliot John Eliot (1604-1690), English-born clergyman of the first New England generation and missionary to the Massachusetts Native Americans, translated the Bible and other books into the Algonquian tongue. John Eliot's baptismal...
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Indian Bible, Eliot's
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...ELIOT'S INDIAN BIBLE, ELIOT'S. Eliot's Indian Bible was a translation into Algonquian by John Eliot, a minister at Roxborough, Massachusetts...BIBLIOGRAPHY Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before...
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George Eliot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Eliot pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans...pseudonym Lewes chose for her, George Eliot. Although not a popular success...friend of both Lewes and herself, John W. Cross, who later edited George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters...
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