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Toru Takemitsu, Timelessly Contemporary
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For those concertgoers who would rather jump through a plate-
glass window than submit to an evening of contemporary music, the
works of Toru Takemitsu usually come as a revelation. The Japanese
composer's soundscapes -- while utterly contemporary and often
brain-breakingly complex -- are also gorgeous, and the
contemplative, nature-oriented sensibility behind them resonates
immediately with modern audiences.
Takemitsu, who died in 1996 at 65, was an unusual and almost Yoda-
like character. A diminutive autodidact who learned Western music as
a bedridden youth, he was discovered by ...
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Stanley Baldwin.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Stanley Baldwin Conservative Leadership and National...would not be necessary in the case of Stanley Baldwin -- who was already an old woman...new dimension to our understanding of Stanley Baldwin; but for me what stands out is still...
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STANLEY BALDWIN IN HIS OWN WORDS.(Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908-1947)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; STANLEY BALDWIN IN HIS OWN WORDS Baldwin Papers: A...1947. Philip Williamson and Edward Baldwin, editors. Cambridge University Press...526 pages. ISBN 0-521-58080-3. Stanley Baldwin is the only Prime Minister in the last...
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Stanley Baldwin and the Search for Consensus. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Review
; ...sterling] **** This new study of Stanley Baldwin deserves to be read by all keen...particularly enjoyed the discussion of Baldwin's shrewd cultivation of a seemingly...They talk of honest, stupid Stanley Baldwin', said his Attorney General...
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Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values. (Reviewed Elsewhere). (book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values. Philip...York: Cambridge UP, 1999. 378 pp. $59.95. Baldwin, Stanley "Williamson's magisterial new study of Baldwin is. . . certainly timely, but it is much else besides...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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STANLEY BALDWIN, 70.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; Stanley M. "Skip" Baldwin, 70, of North Second Avenue died...Mechanicville-Stillwater area. Mr. Baldwin was employed for more than 28 years...Italy and the European Theater. Mr. Baldwin was a communicant of Assumption-St...
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Tuesday Book: A new view of the architect of middle England Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values by Philip Williamson, (Cambridge University Press, pounds 25)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...rivalry, and John Major. Yet Stanley Baldwin, the most important architect...a biography. It is a study of Baldwin's rhetoric, heavily based on...Almighty. The ebbs and flows of Baldwin's career do not always emerge...
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OBITUARIES[2].(Jefferson County Post)(Obituary\Richard W. Werner, Walter E. Leutzinger Sr.\Stanley J. Curtis, Aliedia Georginna Craig\Kevin M. Wuertz, Wilma K. Brand\Maurice Warren Price Jr., Arthur Edward Baldwin)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
; ...Price; and a sister, Lynda Harms. Arthur Edward Baldwin Arthur Edward Baldwin, 87, of House Springs, died Friday (Nov...Vastine of Lebanon, Ill.; a brother, Miles Stanley Baldwin of Orlando, Fla.; two sisters, Margie Green...
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NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ISSUES OPINION REGARDING STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA V. STANLEY BALDWIN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...CAROLINA v. Guilford County Nos. 05 CRS 80271-72 STANLEY BALDWIN Appeal by defendant from judgments entered 9 December...defendant-appellant. MARTIN, Chief Judge. Defendant Stanley Baldwin was charged with two counts of common law robbery...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's pipe will soon make an appearance on the worldwide web.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's pipe will soon make an appearance on the worldwide web. The Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury is creating a digital...
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Exhibits at the London Toy and Model Museum, which has closed for a pounds 3.5m refurbishment programme. Before it re-opens next spring, staff will restore the 7,000 toys and models, some more than 150 years old, which include a dummy of Stan Laurel (above) and a clockwork pig given to Stanley Baldwin by his parents
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...refurbishment programme. Before it re-opens next spring, staff will restore the 7,000 toys and models, some more than 150 years old, which include a dummy of Stan Laurel (above) and a clockwork pig given to Stanley Baldwin by his parents
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