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Sir Peter's martyred saint makes a welcome Orcadian comeback
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SIR Peter Maxwell Davies's powerful chamber opera The Martyrdom
of St Magnus enjoys iconic status in the world of contemporary
music. Not so much for the piece itself as the part it played in
launching the original St Magnus Festival 31 years ago.
It was Max's second major opera, the first being the
uncompromising and challenging Taverner, a crushing tale of good
versus evil. The Martyrdom - a compelling operatic distillation of
fellow Orcadian George Mackay Brown's historical novel on the life
and death of Earl Magnus of Orkney - exploded on to the musical
landscape in 1977 with such ...
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Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ...Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute...xx, 208 pp. $32.50. SAMUEL CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG was a Yankee by heritage...goals. Engs emphasizes that Samuel Chapman Armstrong's attitudes and approaches...
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Educating the disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...new school constituency as did Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the founder of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Locally, Armstrong wasn't just "the founder...Robert Engs's new biography of Armstrong is a welcome and thoroughgoing...
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Still True to Their School; For Armstrong's Class of '45, Time to Tell the Untold Story
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...take it upon myself to begin to tell the Armstrong story." The story begins near the end...The other school would be for blacks. Armstrong was named after Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute. In 1902...
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Up from Savagery: Booker T. Washington and the Civilizing Mission
Magazine article from: Southern Quarterly
; ...the land purer and better. -Samuel Chapman Armstrong One might have removed from...the inspiring influence of Armstrong and [Hollis Burke] Frisell...colonialism. On one side is Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Washington's mentor and...
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
; ...Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893, by Robert...assumptions, and limitations they worked within. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, as Robert Engs skillfully describes him, was...
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Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ...Lindsey tells how General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute...prisoners, Pratt turned to Armstrong to take some of the Indians...the like, Pratt asserted that Armstrong's "plans always contemplate...
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"With a Weight of Circumstances Like Millstones About their Necks": Freedwomen, Federal Relief, and the Benevolent Guardianship of the Freedmen's Bureau
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ...the Civil War's end, Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, superintendent of the Freedmen...in January 1867, General Armstrong still appealed to his superiors...epitome of the worthy poor to Armstrong, son of missionaries, commander...
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Exhibit revisits old uncomfortable questions
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...end of the Civil War, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong became convinced that his calling...University) in Hampton, Va. Armstrong stands behind his family in...these words Weems acknowledges Armstrong's noble aims while indicting...
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Carry on flame, former state justice tells HU students: A packed auditorium remembers Hampton University's founder with words of praise.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
; ...to continue writing history. Samuel Chapman Armstrong was a Union general who led...Civil War. After the war, Armstrong -- who was white -- worked...women, the 27-year-old Armstrong -- in 1868 -- founded the...
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Assimilation by marriage: White women and Native American men at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; SAMUEL CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG founded the Hampton Normal and Agricultural...Protestant Christianity.1 Although Armstrong, a white humanitarian, had never...the cause of significant anxiety. Armstrong constantly had to defend his coeducational...
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