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Valery Gergiev
Valery GergievConductor Valery Gergiev emerged as one of the superstar conductors of the classical music world in the late 1990s and early 2000s, molding Russia's Kirov Opera into a powerhouse undreamed of since the time of the czars. Western audiences got to know Gergiev through his high-profile... Read more |
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Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton Bruce Barton (1886-1967), American business executive and Congressman, was the most famous advertising man of his day, thanks to his best-selling book The Man Nobody Knows. Bruce Barton was born on August 5, 1886, in Robbins, Tennessee. Most of his youth, however, was spent in... Read more |
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Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival annual festival of music and drama held in Salzburg, Austria, for five weeks starting in late July. The festival may be considered a descendant of the Salzburg Music Festival Weeks that the Vienna Philharmonic gave irregularly between 1877 and 1910. After World War I several... Read more |
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Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior , 1890-1973, Danish heroic tenor. He made his debut in Copenhagen in 1913, singing a baritone role in I Pagliacci, and sang regularly at the Bayreuth Festivals from 1925 to 1931. In addition to possessing a great voice, Melchior was an exciting actor. He was the leading Wagnerian... Read more |
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Tammuz
Tammuz , ancient nature deity worshiped in Babylonia. A god of agriculture and flocks, he personified the creative powers of spring. He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar , who, according to one legend, was so grief-stricken at his death that she contrived to enter the underworld to get him... Read more |
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Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain. A large-scale celebration of British culture mounted in 1951; ostensibly it was meant to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition (held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London), but in fact it was intended as ‘a tonic to the nation’ (the words of Sir ... Read more |
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Topsy
Topsy name of the young slave girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who says of herself ‘I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.’ From this, Topsy is taken as the type of something which seems to have grown of itself without anyone's intention or... Read more |
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'Nobody says no to Gergiev'; London is to get a Verdi festival thanks to the...
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