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Those Last Names Still Fit Perfectly
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Yes, we're still collecting them, because the world is still
full of them. With thanks to my farflung collectors and submitters,
here's the most recent assemblage of Perfect Fit Last Names (PFLNs)
- surnames that suit their owners to a T.
Bill Warden, of McLean, reports that the pastor of South
Parkersburg (W. Va.) Baptist Church is the Rev. David Easter.
I can't learn his last name, but his first name is certainly
perfect. Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, of Northwest Washington, reports
that the guy who works the fish counter at the Fresh Fields grocery
on Rockville Pike is named Marlin.
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Review: CD "The Three Ravens" by Alfred Deller...
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Review: CD The Three Ravens by Alfred Deller Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9...sung by the great countertenor Alfred Deller. Manoff remembers listening to...this story of King Henry. Mr. ALFRED DELLER: (Singing) King Henry, King...
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Review: CD "The Three Ravens" by Alfred Deller
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Review: CD The Three Ravens by Alfred Deller Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9...sung by the great countertenor Alfred Deller. Manoff remembers listening to...this story of King Henry. Mr. ALFRED DELLER: (Singing) King Henry, King...
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DISCS: CLASSICAL HHHII Alfred Deller Portrait of a Legend HARMONIA MUNDI
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...original talent, counter-tenor Alfred Deller defined the sound of early vocal...music, lute- song or in consort, Deller was acutely sensitive to poetic nuance...counter-tenors, whose careers Deller single-handedly made possible...
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FOLK SONGS AND BALLADS/MUSIC OF HENRY PURCELL
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; FOLK SONGS AND BALLADS * Alfred Deller (ct), dir; The Deller Consort...ROSSETER MUSIC OF HENRY PURCELL * Alfred Deller (ct), dir; Michael Tippett...a British folk song. That was Alfred Deller. When I introduced him to my...
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CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND MOTETS
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...Early Music CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND MOTETS & * Alfred Deller (ct), dir; Deller Consort; Ren Clemencic, dir; Musica Antiqua...then making his very first American tour, was Alfred Deller, the first countertenor ever heard by anyone...
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Classical CDs
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; Alfred Deller Portrait of a Legend (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290261.64, 4 CDs, pounds...revival of the counter-tenor voice was almost entirely due to one man, Alfred Deller. To mark the 25th anniversary of his death, Harmonia Mundi, for whom...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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High and mighty: counter-tenors. (music)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...1945 rebound of the counter-tenor's art, led by Alfred Deller, a majestic British musician, the male alto has achieved...Oberon in the opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Alfred Deller, he wrote a role for the young James Bowman in his...
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Living the high life Sight Readings; No longer an exotic oddity, the countertenor voice has firmly established itself as a major attraction - and not just in the Baroque repertoire
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...was written for its new pioneer, Alfred Deller, who recolonised the castrato repertory...with ethereal plangency, however, Deller couldn't act. When James Bowman took over the tailor-made role which Deller could not handle - Oberon in Britten...
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Unabashedly Christmas; Harkening back to carols of yore.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(FROM THE VAULTS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...the songwriter and jazz musician Alfred S. Burt, who died half a century...English: the celebrated countertenor Alfred Deller (1912-1979), whose uncanny...Christmas albums recorded by the Alfred Deller Consort, a quartet of soprano...
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THE ARTS: Crossover at a high pitch It was Handel that made him famous; now the countertenor Andreas Scholl has released a folk song CD and plans a soul-funk album. Michael Church meets the eclectic singer
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...rechristened with its Purcellian name, "counter- tenor". Alfred Deller began the process of recolonisation, and after him...His hero in this respect, as in many others, was Alfred Deller: "I was impressed by the way he could deliver these...
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