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Michael Tippet
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio ''A Child of Our Time'', the orchestral '' Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli'', and the opera ''The Midsummer Marriage''. Tippett's talent developed slowly. He withdrew or destroyed his earliest compositions, and was 30 before any of his works were published. Until the mid-to-late 1950s his music was broadly lyrical in character, before changing to a more astringent and experimental style. New influences—including those of jazz and blues after his first visit to America in 1965—became increasingly evident in his compositions. While Tippett's stature with the public continued to grow, not all critics approved of these changes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tippett Old Age
Tippett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Andre Tippett (born 1959), American Hall of Fame footballer *Clark Tippet (1954–1992), American dancer *Coby Tippett, American football coach and son of Andre *Dave Tippett (born 1961), ice hockey coach *Keith Tippett (born 1947), English pianist known for work with King Crimson *Krista Tippett (born 1960), journalist, author, public intellectual, and entrepreneur *Kurt Tippett (born 1987), Australian rules footballer *James Sterling Tippett (1885-1958), American educator *L. H. C. Tippett (1902-1985), English statistician *Liz Whitney Tippett (1906-1988), American philanthropist *Michael Tippett (1905-1998), English composer *Owen Tippett (born 1999), Canadian ice hockey player. *Peter Tippett (born 1953), American physician, researcher, and inventor *Peter Tippett (footballer) (1926–1990), Australian rules footballer *Phil Tippett (born 1951), animator, visual effects supervisor and founder of Tippett Studio Fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the '' Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21. When by 1903 women in Britain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, world's third-oldest university in continuous operation. The university's founding followed the arrival of scholars who left the University of Oxford for Cambridge after a dispute with local townspeople. The two ancient university, ancient English universities, although sometimes described as rivals, share many common features and are often jointly referred to as Oxbridge. In 1231, 22 years after its founding, the university was recognised with a royal charter, granted by Henry III of England, King Henry III. The University of Cambridge includes colleges of the University of Cambridge, 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and List of institutions of the University of Cambridge#Schools, Faculties, and Departments, over 150 academic departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Planquette
Jean Robert Planquette (; 31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, especially ''Les cloches de Corneville'' (1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time. ''Rip Van Winkle (operetta), Rip Van Winkle'' (1882) also earned international fame. Life and career The son of a singer, Planquette was born in Paris and educated at the Paris Conservatoire. He did not finish his studies, lacking the funds to do so, and worked as a café pianist and composer and singing (he was a tenor). A few romances that he composed brought less fame than did his song, "Sambre et Meuse", first sung in 1867 by Lucien Fugère, who went on to be one of the foremost French opera singers of his day. In 1876, the director of the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques gave Planquette a commission to compose his first operetta, ''Les c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Sargent
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic, The Hallé, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestras. Sargent was held in high esteem by choirs and instrumental soloists, but because of his high standards and a statement that he made in a 1936 interview disputing musicians' rights to tenure, his relationship with orchestral players was often uneasy. Despite this, he was co-founder of the London Philharmonic, was the first conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic as a full-time ensemble, and played a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamford School
Stamford School is a co-educational independent school (UK), independent school in Stamford, Lincolnshire in the English Public School (United Kingdom), public school tradition. Founded in 1532, it has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920. With the former Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Stamford High School and the coeducational Stamford Junior School, it is part of the Stamford Endowed Schools (SES). From September 2023, Stamford became co-educational. History The school was founded in 1532 by a local merchant and alderman, William Radcliffe, who had been encouraged when younger by Lady Margaret Beaufort, (died 1509) mother of Henry VII of England, Henry VII, though there is evidence to suggest that a school existed from the beginning of the fourteenth century. Founded as a chantry school, it fell foul of the Protestant reformers and was only saved from destruction under the Chantry#Abolition of Chantries Acts.2C 1545 and 1547, Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fettes College
Fettes College () is a co-educational private boarding and day school in Craigleith, Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus. The school was originally a boarding school for boys only and became co-ed in 1983. In 1978 the College had a nine-hole golf course, an ice-skating rink used in winter for ice hockey and in summer as an outdoor swimming pool, a cross-country running track, and a rifle shooting range within the forested 300-acre grounds.Fettes College Prospectus 1978 Fettes is sometimes referred to as a public school, although that term was traditionally used in Scotland for state schools. The school was founded with a bequest of Sir William Fettes in 1870 and started admitting girls in 1970. It follows the English rather than the Scottish education system and has nine houses. The main building, called the Bryce Building, was designed by David Bryce. The school is included in The Schools Index as one of the 150 best private sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swanage
Swanage () is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately south of Poole and east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbour to the north. Within the parish are Durlston Bay and Durlston Country Park to the south of the town. The parish also includes the areas of Herston, Dorset, Herston, just to the west of the town, and Durlston, just to the south. The town, originally a small port and fishing village, flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and later a seaside resort for the rich of the day. Today the town remains a popular tourist resort, this being the town's primary industry, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherden
Wetherden is a village and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, situated about northwest of Stowmarket and about west of the larger village of Haughley. In 2011 the parish had a population of 540. History It was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as 'Watdena' or 'Wederdena', the name deriving from old English ' wether' for castrated rams (male sheep) and 'dena' denoting valley. In the late 16th century the manor of Wetherden was acquired by John Sulyard who built Wetherden Hall to the north east of village - a moated farmhouse now occupies its site at Base Green. Buildings Buildings in the village include *a Grade I listed medieval church, dedicated to Mary St Mary's Church dates from the 14th century and is listed grade I. It has a late 15th century roof ( hammerbeams in the nave and camber beams in the aisle) and contains tombs to the Sulyard family, who partly funded its construction. It suffered damage during World War II when it was hit by bombs which also ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamford School - Illuminated At Night
Stamford may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Stamford, Lincolnshire, a town and civil parish in England ** Stamford (UK Parliament constituency), a former constituency in Lincolnshire, England * Stamford, Northumberland, a hamlet in Rennington parish * Stamford Brook, a brook in West London United States * Stamford, Connecticut, the second largest city in the state of Connecticut * Stamford, Nebraska, a village * Stamford, New York, a town * Stamford (village), New York, a village in Delaware county, New York * Stamford, South Dakota * Stamford, Texas, a city * Stamford, Vermont, a town * Lake Stamford, a reservoir in Texas Elsewhere * Stamford, Queensland, Australia, a town and location * Stamford Township, Ontario, a former township first in Upper Canada, then in Canada People * Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), English statesman and founder of Singapore * Stamford Raffles-Flint (1847–1925), Archdeacon of Cornwall Educational institutions * Stamford University (Bangl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastcote
Eastcote is a suburban area in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, west Greater London, London. In the Middle Ages, Eastcote was one of the three areas that made up the parish of Ruislip, under the name of Ascot. The name came from its position to the east of the parish. Eastcote housed an outstation of the Bletchley Park codebreaking activities during the World War II, Second World War, with several codebreaking computers in use. This operation became the precursor to GCHQ, which remained in Eastcote after the war until the department moved to purpose-built buildings in Cheltenham in 1952. Mary Bankes, Lady Mary Bankes lived in Eastcote for a time, and led the defence of Corfe Castle in Dorset against the Roundheads during the English Civil War. By the History of London (1900–1939), turn of the 20th century, the recorded population was around 600; this had reached for the ward in 2007. Part of Eastcote is in the Pinner postal district, despite being in Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
