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Charm school
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When I was a bridesmaid, at the age of eight, I was given two silver charms. One was of a ballet dancer, en pointe, in a full skirt, like a little Degas. The other was a tiny cathedral which opened to show a bride, a groom, a vicar and rows of pews. My spirits still skip at the memory of it.
The art historian Deborah Alun-Jones was mesmerised to see the story of her mother's life recorded in the charms hanging from her bracelet. There was a miniature Vespa, a fryingpan to remind her of burnt early marital breakfasts, a lawnmower to signify home. The best charms are dazzlingly ingenious and ...
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The thinking man's thinking man
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...to the Met this month in Busoni's Doktor Faust, is an...intellectual incarnation courtesy of Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni. Virtually typecast as Doktor...becomes Doktor Faust and Ferruccio Busoni at the same time...
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Renowned conductor to make all Italian SA debut.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa)
; ...the Piano Concerto Opus 39 by Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1866-1924). The soloist...As Shinozaki points out, the Busoni concerto is quite a rarely performed piece. "Busoni called the concerto his 'symphony...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1765; Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, statesman, 1815; Edwin Austin Abbey, painter, 1852; Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, musician, 1866; Edmond-Eugene Alexis Rostand, playwright, 1868; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, composer...
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Birthdays and Anniversries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1697; Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, statesman, 1815; Edwin Austin Abbey, painter, 1852; Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, musician, 1866; Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov, composer, 1873; Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace, journalist...
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