air brake
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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air brake
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n.
a brake worked by air pressure.
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a movable flap or other device on an aircraft to reduce its speed.
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A trio of gems
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/30/2000; ; 624 words
; ...memorable productions . Adolphe Adam, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and...Youri Alexeev as King Charles VII and Ermonela Jaho...Russian by native speakers. Adolphe Adam's Si j'tais roi...century Goa, is one of Adam's best: the orchestration...
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Joffrey Ballet focuses on founders
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/17/1991; ; 676 words
; ...L'Air d'Esprit," Arpino, Adolphe Adam and "Light Rain," Arpino, Douglas...with music by "Giselle" composer Adolphe Adam), and the drooping, delicate...new works, "Panoramagram" by Charles Moulton, was presented Wednesday...
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Woodwind Quintets: No. 5 in b, op. 99; No. 6 in G, op. 99
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Their approaches are based on the new edition of Charles-David Lehrer provided to the International Double...Conservatory. Among his students can be counted Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Franz Liszt, and Cesar Franck. Though...
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Classic subversion
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...him the emotional resonances of the Adolphe Adam original but it also spares him the...weakness is successfully camouflaged by Adam Silverman's other- worldly lighting...elegantly but inadequately lit by Charles Balfour. Charge, choreographed...
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William Littler finds a more realistic resurgence of First Nations themes in opera.(Letter from Norfolk)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 11/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...is a photograph of the 1918 premiere at the old Met of Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis. A toaster isn't sufficient...list of which would have to stretch alphabetically from Adolphe Adam's Les Mohicans to Frederick Zech Jr.'s Wa-Kin...
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Caroling, caroling through the holidays
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 12/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Angels Sing This Christmas hymn was written in 1739 by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley, who helped found...history to hit the top three different times. O Holy Night Adolphe Adam composed the music for an 1847 French poem, "Minuit...
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JOFFREY BALLET SCHEDULE
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/14/1991; ; 428 words
; ...Gerald Arpino, Mahler; "L'Air d'Esprit," Arpino, Adolphe Adam, and "Light Rain," Arpino, to music of Douglas Adams...George Balanchine, Emmanuel Chabrier; "Panoramagram," Charles Moulton, Bill Obrecht; "Tarantella," Balanchine...
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Portraits in Blue.
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/2/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Georges conceived the ballet Giselle. With the music of Adolphe Adam, it became one of the great achievements of Romantic...The Harold Arlen Songbook (Philips 446 818-2). Charles Aznavour, a darling of French films and the Paris boites...
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PERFORMING ARTS SEASON '98-'99 Milwaukee Ballet flexes its wings with new season; Season essentials What: Milwaukee Ballet 1998-'99 season Where: At the Marcus Center Uihlein Hall, 929 N. Water St., and the Pabst Theater, 144 E. Wells St. When: Concert times are 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 1:30 p.m. on Sundays. (The ballet's traditional 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows will be dropped next season.) Tickets: Season subscriptions go on sale Monday through the Milwaukee Ballet office, 643-7677. Current subscribers will automatically receive renewal packets by mail. Subscriptions to all five Milwaukee Ballet events ("The Nutcracker" included) range from $60 to $260. Five-concert subscribers also get 15% discounts on additional "Nutcracker" tickets and 10% off all but the lowest-priced Alvin Ailey tickets. Four- and three-concert packages are also available. Single tickets will go on sale Sept. 1.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...executive director. Premiere of a collaborative work by Charles Moulton and Mark Howard, with the Milwaukee Ballet and...Coralli/Jules Perrot ballet of 1841, with music by Adolphe Adam May 27-30, 1999, Marcus Center "We know that an...
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Old sweet song
Magazine article from: Opera News; 4/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; The commanding position occupied by Charles Francois Gounod, during the Second Empire and Later, requires...was the successor of the Opera National, founded in 1847 by Adolphe Adam and E-L. Crosnier as a third house for Paris. It occupied...
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Adolphe Charles Adam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adolphe Charles Adam , 1803-56, French composer of the popular song Cantique de Noël. He composed more than 50 stage works, including comic operas such as Le Postillon de Longjumeau (1836) and the ballet Giselle (1841).
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Adam, Adolphe (Charles)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Adam, Adolphe (Charles) ( b Paris, 1803; d Paris, 1856). Fr. composer and critic. Wrote 70 operas, mostly opéras-comiques , of which...
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