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Anniversaries
; ...Ludwig Planck, physicist, 1858; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, 1858; Edmund Henry Hynman...Bowles Pearson, statesman, 1897; Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh, novelist, 1899...Protestants at Muhlberg, 1547; Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 16, married...
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Music on Radio
; ...and triumphs of a composer, Dame Hilda Tablet. She was an upper-cla...played by the redoubtable Mary O'Farrell as a sort of latter-d...itself. The obvious model for Dame Hilda's gritty determination was the long-dead Ethel Smyth - though her music was clearly...all kinds of figures in mind. ...
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Call Her Ishmael
; ...woman. The composer was Ethel Smyth, obscure to us now but considered...Botstein. Botstein ran across Smyth and her music in the Bruno...flexibility and range of Smyth's palette. "It's not monochromatic...times, toward comic opera." Smyth's keen political sense infuses...variety of The ...
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WOMEN COMPOSERS MAKING STRIDES.(LIFESTYLE)
; ...Barbara Strozzi, Louise Reichardt, Emilie Zumsteeg, Fanny Hensel, Thea Musgrave, Elizabeth Alexander, Dede Duson, Dame Ethel Smyth, Mary Carr Moore, Amy Beach and Hilary Tann, who will give a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. The program also offers...
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Queen's Birthday Honours : Ulster honours.(News)
; ...Order of the British Empire: Geraldine Mary Marcella Keegan OBE (Londonderry), for services to secondary education. Mary Elizabeth Peters CBE (Dunmurry, Belfast...education and the community. Joseph Desmond Smyth (Belfast), for services to broadcasting...officer, Department of Social Security. ...
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Obituary: The Rev Michael Hollings
; ...Michael Hollings, Roman Catholic parish priest of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, lived and worked and slept...Hollings, was the eccentric sister of the formidable Dame Ethel Smyth), and Molly, nee Hamilton-Dalrymple, a Catholic and a...
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Of Barnum and Brubeck; Plymouth series to offer diverse musical tributes.(ENTERTAINMENT)
; ...with a one-act opera, The Forest, by British composer Dame Ethel Smyth. Nine new short choral works by British composers, including...repertoire. For its concert in March at the Basilica of St. Mary, the Sixteen will sing music by Victoria, Byrd and Palestrina...
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A devilish bit of fun.
; ...the many famous guests at the Old Inn at Mullion was Dame Ethel Smyth, the pre-eminent British woman composer who signed the...piece of music dedicated to the legendary innkeeper, Mary Mundy, and whose operaThe Wreckers is set in Cornwall...
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