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Florence Hood
Florence Hood (14 Oct 1880–1968) was a noted violinist from Melbourne, Victoria who married and moved to Canada, where she was a member of the Montreal String Quartet. History Florence was born in Melbourne, a grand-daughter of John Hood M.P. and the youngest daughter of (later Sir) Joseph Henry Hood (1 June 1846 – 28 January 1922), judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and his wife Georgina, née McKee, later Lady Hood OBE (c. 1849 – 13 August 1937), and brought up at their large home "Helenslea", in Caulfield, Victoria. She studied piano and violin under Hermann T. Schrader, whom she remembered with affection and gratitude. Professor Schrader later said of her, with his typical modesty:"... she came to me as a young girl, and made such amazingly rapid progress with her piano studies that before very long I launched her upon the violin. Then, within a few years, I realised that I could not teach her any more. She knew as much as I did ..." She went on to study in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne, Victoria
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung–Taungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local government area, local municipality of City of Melbourne based around Melbourne City Centre, its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Muswellbrook Chronicle
''The Muswellbrook Chronicle and Upper Hunter advertiser'' is a newspaper published in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia since 1872. It has also been published as ''Muswellbrook chronicle'', ''Muswellbrook & Denman, Upper Hunter regional show'', and ''Hunter unlimited''. History ''The Muswellbrook Chronicle'' can trace its origin back to 1868 when it was called ''The Muswellbrook Monitor'', this was then followed by the ''Courier'', published from 1872 to 1876 and continued by the ''Upper Hunter Standard'' from 1876 to 1888. This subsequently gave way to the ''Muswellbrook Chronicle'', which was established in August 1888 by Pierce Healy. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stradivarius
A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are considered some of the finest instruments ever made, and are extremely valuable collector's items. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed. The many blind experiments from 1817 to as recently as 2014 have found no difference in sound between Stradivari's violins and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis. The fame of Stradivarius instruments is widespread, appearing in numerous works of fiction. Construction Stradivari made his instruments using an inner form, unlike the French copyists, such as Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Vuillaume, who employed an outer form. It is clear from the number of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australasian
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle'' (probably best known for Tom Wills's famous 1858 Australian rules football letter) was released. The weekly, which was produced by Charles Frederic Somerton in Melbourne, was one of several Bell's Life publications based on the format of ''Bell's Life in London'', a Sydney version having been published since 1845. On 1 October 1864, the weekly newspaper ''The Australasian'' was launched in Melbourne, Victoria by the proprietors of ''The Argus (Melbourne), The Argus''. It supplanted three unprofitable ''Argus'' publications: ''The Weekly Argus'', ''The Examiner (Melbourne), The Examiner'', and ''The Yeoman'', and contained features of all three. A competitor, ''The Age'', gloated that as it was printed on coarse h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dunhill
Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1 February 187713 March 1946) was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions include much chamber music, a song cycle, ''The Wind Among the Reeds'', and an operetta, '' Tantivy Towers'', that had a successful London run in 1931. He was also a teacher, examiner and writer on musical subjects. Life and career Early years Dunhill was born in Hampstead, London, the fourth of five children of Henry Dunhill (1842–1901) and his wife Jane, ''née'' Styles (1843–1922).Dibble, Jeremy"Dunhill, Thomas Frederick (1877–1946)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 October 2011 Henry Dunhill was a manufacturer of sacks, tarpaulin and ropes; Jane Dunhill ran a small music shop. Their eldest son, Alfred later founded a tobacco company that bears his name. Thomas was educated at the North London High School for Boys, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the ''Enigma Variations'', the ''Pomp and Circumstance Marches'', concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including ''The Dream of Gerontius'', chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Times (Sydney)
''The Sunday Times'' was a newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 1885 to 1930. History ''The Sunday Times'' was founded by W. H. Leighton Bailey. It was first published on 15 November 1885 by Charles Mark Curtiss, and ceased with no. 2389 on 1 June 1930. ''The Sunday Times'' was controlled by the Evans family for over 30 years, until 1916 when the Sunday Times Newspaper Company, as well as the company's premises, were sold to Hugh D. McIntosh. In 1927, McIntosh sold his holdings in the Sunday Times Newspaper Company to Beckett's Newspapers, with J. H. C. Sleeman as Managing Director. ''The Sunday Times'' ceased publication in 1930, with staff informed on 8 June. The Sunday Times Newspaper Company also published '' The Referee'' from 1887, and later the ''Arrow''. Digitisation This paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Arrow (newspaper)
''The Arrow'' was a weekly English-language broadsheet newspaper published in Sydney, Australia between 1896 and 1933. The paper had previously been published under two earlier titles, ''The Dead Bird'' and ''Bird O’Freedom'' and also appeared as the ''Saturday Referee and the Arrow''. It was later absorbed by '' The Referee''. History ''The Dead Bird'' was first published on 16 May 1889 by Herbert Allan Risdale, and in 1891 the name was changed to ''Bird O'Freedom''. On 7 March 1896 the name changed to ''The Arrow''. It was published by Harry Markham Evans. The paper was a sporting weekly. In 1916 ''The Arrow'' came into the ownership of Hugh D. McIntosh in 1916, when he acquired the '' Sunday Times''. In 1933 the paper was absorbed by '' The Referee'', another sporting weekly, which began publication in 1886 and ceased publication on 31 August 1939. Digitisation Many issues of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estelle Ward
Estelle may refer to: People * Estelle (given name), a female given name, including a list of people * Estelle (surname), a list of people * Estelle (musician), British singer/rapper Estelle Fanta Swaray (born 1980) * Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland Fictional characters * Estelle Blofis, a character in ''Trials of Apollo'' by Rick Riordan * Estelle Bright, a main character in the video game '' The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky'' * Estelle Costanza, on the TV series ''Seinfeld'' * Estelle Leonard, a recurring character in the ''Friends'' TV series * Estelle Green, in Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy novel ''Witch Week'' * Estellise Sidos Heurassein, a main character in the video game ''Tales of Vesperia'' * Estelle, in Jean-Paul Sartre's ''No Exit'' Places * Estelle (Arrigas), a hamlet in France * Estelle, a hamlet in France, part of the commune of Saint-Jory, Haute-Garonne * Estelle, Georgia, United States, an unincorporated community * Estelle, Louisiana, Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Coliseum
The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St Martin's Lane, Westminster, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious "family" variety theatres. Opened on 24 December 1904 as the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties, it was designed by the theatrical architect Frank Matcham for the impresario Oswald Stoll. Their ambition was to build the largest and finest music hall, described as the "people's palace of entertainment" of its age. At the time of construction, the Coliseum was one of the few theatres in Europe to provide lifts for taking patrons to the upper levels of the house, and was the first theatre in England to have a triple revolve installed on its stage. The theatre has 2,359 seats making it the largest theatre in London. After being used for variety shows, musical comedies, and stage plays for many years, then as a cinema screening films in the Cinerama format between 1963 and 1968, the Sadler's Wells Opera Company moved into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
