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Buxtehude's Ciacona in C minor and the Nicene Creed
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MATHS AND MUSIC GO TOGETHER' - how often have you heard this comment? It is certainly an observation that can be applied to the Danish organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 16370 -1707). In addition to his duties as organist at St Mary's, Lübeck, a position he held from 1668 until his death, he was also employed as 'Werkmeister' - administrator and treasurer - at the church. In fact, the meticulously kept account books of that period form part of a small number of surviving documents in Buxtehude's hand. His education as a boy at a Latin school in Denmark would have included the ...
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Obituary: Meriel Forbes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...known as the wife of Sir Ralph Richardson, who...hairdresser's. Born Meriel Forbes-Robertson in 1913 in Fulham...family. Her father Frank Forbes-Robertson ran an acting troupe, and her great-uncle Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson had...
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JOANNA'S FAMILY DRAMAS
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...that Joanna's grandfather, Aberdeen-born Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, was the first of the theatrical dynasty she...explains. "My mother was an actress called Jean Forbes-Robertson, and a lot of her uncles were in the same business...
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City STORIES Remembering the golden years of glorious Alhambra Series: Milwaukee 150 \ 1846-1996
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...international star made his way there as well. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson was a British actor who became a sensation on...indeed, George Bernard Shaw himself called Forbes-Robertson the greatest "Hamlet" that ever was. His appearance...
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Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
; ...performers to fill the most important roles. Thus, a number of 'footlight favourites' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, F. R. Benson, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and H. B. Irving among them - doubled as the first generation of British cinema...
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Are you Dressed to Kilt?
Newspaper article from: PR Newswire Europe
; ...s event include Sir Sean and Lady Connery...soccer legend Mo Johnston; and celebutantes...Patricia Duff, Moira Forbes, Cristina Greeven...Denise Rich, Belinda Robertson, Susan Shin, and...International, Castle Forbes Collection, University...Atelier, Belinda Robertson, Thistle &...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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THE SCOTS GONG SHOW; List of all the tartan honours.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...East Lothian) James Alexander Forbes. Lately chief executive...Giffnock, Renfrewshire) Sir John Lister-Kaye, Bt. President...Scotland. (Saltcoats) John Robertson. Lately area director North...Ross and Cromarty) David Johnston Stobie. Lately chairman...
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