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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre celebrates the work of George Balanchine
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Familiarity breeds enthusiasm, not contempt, when the subject is a
masterpiece. That's why the hard preparatory work necessary in the
performing arts also can be a lot of fun.
"I've been having a great time, and found myself dancing around
more than I have in a long time," says Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's
artistic director Terrence S. Orr. He's been getting the company
ready for its Balanchine Festival, Friday through April 22 at the
Benedum Center, Downtown.
George Balanchine was the most celebrated choreographer of the
20th century. Orr selected three of his masterpieces for Pittsburgh ...
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Hardwick reawakens.(Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...carrying Bess's initials -- ES, for Elizabeth of Shrewsbury -- and her coronet as a countess. Stupendously high windows, which...1601 inventory are still In place. Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, known to posterity as Bess of Hardwick...
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The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies
; ...to the throne during Queen Elizabeth's long reign, and still...political negotiations by Queen Elizabeth, Arbella spent most of her...grandmother, Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury), whose hard rule she disliked...
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The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies
; ...to the throne during Queen Elizabeth's long reign, and still...political negotiations by Queen Elizabeth, Arbella spent most of her...grandmother, Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury), whose hard rule she disliked...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Anniversaries Births: Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwicke), builder of country mansions, 1518; Jean Bernoulli, mathematician, 1667; Thomas Campbell, poet, 1777...
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antiques: Mining mania that left Victoria feeling blue; CHRISTOPHER PROUDLOVE ON THE CRAZE FOR BLUE JOHN.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...which, when polished, changes from a dull grey to a lustrous black. In 1580, Bess of Hardwick, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, used Ashford marble to build a chimney piece in the great chamber at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire...
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Of Royalty and Loyalties
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Stuart and the earl and countess of Shrewsbury. Who? I hear you asking. George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Bess, were selected by Elizabeth Tudor to be hosts...sold." Elizabeth Shrewsbury has bootstrapped her...
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400 years on, this famous bess is to make a mighty comeback
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph
; ...to the county next year Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as Bess of...woman in England during Elizabeth I's reign, began at the...married again in 1568. George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. He died in 1590 and she...
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Hardwick Hall. (Derbyshire, England)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...November 1590, the old Countess of Shrewsbury decided to erect...this time to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, one of the richest...off to two of the Talbot children, thus assembling...off her daughter, Elizabeth, to Charles Stuart...
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A fine fisher of men John Adamson enjoys this Life of a clever player on the Tudor marriage market
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...times-married, Elizabeth Hardwick - "Bess...by marrying George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury: the Earl Marshal...Once installed as Countess of Shrewsbury, Bess not only zealously...married her daughter, Elizabeth Cavendish, to Charles...
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Bess of Hardwick: in the 400th anniversary of her death, the prominent Elizabethan is the focus of events in her native Derbyshire and elsewhere.(FRONTLINE)(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...13th, 1608, Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury, builder of the...inner circle of Queen Elizabeth (r. 1558-1603...relationship with Elizabeth I fluctuated over...England, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and the marriage...
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