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Konya
Konya , city (1990 pop. 509,208), capital of Konya prov., S central Turkey. It is the trade center of a rich agricultural and livestock-raising region. Manufactures include cement, carpets, and leather, cotton, and silk goods. As the ancient Iconium , the city was important in Roman times, but it... Read more |
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Iconium
Iconium , ancient city of Asia Minor, the modern Konya , Turkey. In ancient days it was at various times in Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, and the Roman province of Galatia. It was visited by Paul, who converted part of the Greek and Jewish population and established an important church there. In... Read more |
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Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Rumi , 1207-73, great Islamic Persian sage and poet mystic, b. in Balkh. His father, a scholar, was invited by the Seljuk sultan of Rum to settle in Iconium (now Konya), Turkey. His apprenticeship as a Sufi mystic was guided by the mysterious Shams ad-Din Tabrizi (d. 1247), who was... Read more |
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Catal Huyuk
Çatal Hüyük , Neolithic settlement on the Konya Plain in S Turkey that flourished c.6500-c.5800 BC The site, excavated (1961-65) by British archaeologist James Mellaart, occupies 32 acres (12.8 hectares) and is divided into 12 horizons (levels of development). Also found on the site... Read more |
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Mahmud II
Mahmud II 1784-1839, Ottoman sultan (1808-39), younger son of Abd al-Hamid I. He was raised to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) upon the deposition of his brother, Mustafa IV , and continued the reforms of his cousin, Selim III . During his reign, the Eastern Question assumed... Read more |
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Sandor Petofi
Sándor Petöfi Sándor Petöfi (1823-1849) was the foremost 19th century Hungarian lyricist. He was a master of the Magyar language, the native language of Hungary. His poems celebrated nature, life's joys and sorrows, the Hungarian people, married love, and later in his life,... Read more |
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Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein 1882-1960, British psychoanalyst, b. Vienna. She became a psychoanalyst after seeking therapy from Sandor Ferenczi, a colleague of Sigmund Freud , who encouraged her to pursue her own studies with young children. She served as a member (1921-26) of the Berlin Psychoanalytic... Read more |
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Sandor Ferenczi
Ferenczi, SãndorWORKS BY FERENCZISUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHYSándor Ferenczi, one of the earliest psychoanalysts, was born in Miskolc, Hungary, in 1873 and died in Budapest, in his house in the Buda hills, in 1933. He was for a time Sigmund Freud’s closest friend and collaborator.Early life .... Read more |
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Sandor Konya, Hungarian tenor known at the Met for Wagnerian roles, dies
...Dateline: IBIZA, Balearic Islands Sandor Konya, a Hungarian-born tenor with a...seasons, has died. He was 78. Konya died May 20 at his home on the Spanish...critic Pedro Echarte said Thursday. Konya had a broad repertory including several... |
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Famed Met Tenor Sandor Konya Dies
...IBIZA, Balearic Islands (AP) _ Sandor Konya, a Hungarian-born tenor with a...seasons, has died. He was 78. Konya died May 20 at his home on the Spanish...critic Pedro Echarte said Thursday. Konya had a broad repertory including several... |
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Sandor Konya, Hungarian tenor, dies
...Dateline: IBIZA, Balearic Islands Sandor Konya, a Hungarian-born tenor who spent...Metropolitan opera, has died. He was 78. Konya died at his home on this Spanish...Hungary, on Sept. 23, 1923, Konya studied in Hungary, Italy and Germany... |
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Obituaries: Sandor Konya
SANDOR KENYA, Sarkad, Hungary September 23, 1923 - Ibiza, Spain, May 20, 2002 Konya's ringing voice had plangency equal to its power...Florence (1961) and Covent Garden (1963). Konya remained on the Met roster for fourteen seasons... |
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In memoriam: Sandor Konya
...placed tone and good musical sense' (John Steane), Sandor Konya's Lohengrin was one of the highpoints of post-war...created the part of Leandro in Henze's Konig Hirsch. Sandor K6nya: born Sarhad, 23 September 1923; died Ibiza... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Obituary: Sandor Knya Tenor remembered for his authentic Lohengrin
SANDOR KONYA will be best remembered by opera lovers as Lohengrin, a role he sang all...students perform at a concert on the island in his memory. Elizabeth Forbes Sandor Knya, opera singer: born Sarkad, Hungary 23 September 1923; married... |
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Deaths
...photography publisher Aperture. He was also recently named chairman of the Academy of American Poets. Sandor Konya IBIZA, Balearic Islands -- Sandor Konya, a Hungarian-born tenor with a dramatic, powerful voice who became a fixture at New York... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Baritone lends voice to help Marist fathers
...Janowitz (Eva), Brigitte Fassbaender (Magdalena), Sandor Konya (Walther), Thomas Stewart (Hans Sachs), Franz Crass...recording every cast member is competitive with the best, and Konya is the most successful Walther on any complete recording... |
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Wagner: Lohengrin / Parsifal
Grummer, Gorr, Konya, Blanc, Waechter, Crass; Bayreuth Festival, Matacic (1959...that keeps up the pace from first to last. I have always admired Sandor Konya's swan knight, both for the sweetness inherent in the voice, allied... |
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Wieland's way
...appeared beyond the steps, and then Lohengrin himself [Sandor Konya], all in gold. Here indeed was a knight of old romance...Leonie Rysanek) and Ortrud (Astrid Varnay), with Konya's essentially gentle Lohengrin virtually powerless to... |
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