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A few of my favourite things ; Rodgers and Hammerstein's remarkable canon is full of acid, mordant pleasures, says Michael Coveney. So why is the sugary 'Sound of Music' being revived?
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The very title strikes fear into my heart. The original London
production of The Sound of Music, which ran for seven years at the
start of the 1960s, and which I saw with the huge, unforgiving
contralto Constance Shacklock, exhorting us to "Climb Ev'ry
Mountain", was soon translated for my generation as The Sound of
Muzak.
The final collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein,
their fifth major show in a remarkable 17-year partnership -
beginning with Oklahoma! (1943), followed by Carousel (1945), South
Pacific (1949) and The King and I (1951) - has always seemed to be
an ...
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WHO WAS PHILO FARNSWORTH?
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Elma Farnsworth learned early in her marriage to inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth that they were on a journey together...about the millennium with no mention of Philo. "I sent it back," she said. "If...
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Elma Farnsworth, television pioneer, dies at 98
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...get little recognition. Philo Farnsworth gave his wife equal credit in...Francisco building where the first Farnsworth television image was projected...bearing the inscription: "Philo Taylor Farnsworth: Inventor of Television...
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TV Pioneer Elma Farnsworth Dies at 98
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...get little recognition. Philo Farnsworth gave his wife equal credit in...Francisco building where the first Farnsworth television image was projected...bearing the inscription: "Philo Taylor Farnsworth: Inventor of Television...
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WHO WAS PHIL FARNSWORTH?
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Elma Farnsworth learned early in her marriage to inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth that they were on a journey together...about the millennium with no mention of Philo. "I sent it back," she said. "If...
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''Mother of Television'' Elma G. ''Pem'' Farnsworth Dies.
Business Wire
; ...Frontier (Pemberly-Kent Publishing) and wife of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, died...parents to Provo, Utah where she met and married Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1926. She was on her husband's lab team...
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Inventor's wife was 'first woman on TV': She assisted her husband in creating the television
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...get little recognition. Philo Farnsworth gave his wife equal credit in...Francisco building where the first Farnsworth television image was projected...bearing the inscription: "Philo Taylor Farnsworth: Inventor of Television...
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Flying false flags
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...Schweiker of Pennsylvania declared 7 September "Philo Taylor Farnsworth Day" throughout the state, saying: "With the...invention, the television, in Philadelphia, Philo Taylor Farnsworth followed in the footsteps of Pennsylvania's beloved...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE GENIUS BEHIND THE TV
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...old farm boy named Philo T. Farnsworth discovered the key to the television...father of television, while Farnsworth would die in obscurity. This...pioneer Mormon grandfather, Philo Taylor Farnsworth II defied his humble beginnings...
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Book Review: The genius behind the TV.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...old farm boy named Philo T. Farnsworth discovered the key to the television...father of television," while Farnsworth would die in obscurity. "This...pioneer Mormon grandfather, Philo Taylor Farnsworth II defied his humble beginnings...
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Inventors must protect their creations
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...over intellectual property involved native Utahn Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth was born in Beaver and attended Brigham Young...exact replica of the original sketch drawn by Farnsworth when he was a high school student. A legal battle...
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