... appeared twice at the Aix en Provence International Music Festival and her oratorio reper toire embraced Durufte's Requiem, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Vivaldi's Gloria. Rachmaninov's Vespers and Bach's B Minor Mass. She sang at the Royal Festival Hall in ...

... on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent on October 12, 1915, and said that his passion for music began with a radio performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture when he was a child in the twen ties. From then on he absorbed radio music until he was able to attend ...

... chairman of the Garrick Club and chairman of the Justices on the Marylebone bench. He also wrote articles on Elgar and Beethoven and pro gramme notes and various cri tiques on Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1983-84 he collaborated with Robin Wilson on an official ...

... Gershwin's Porgy. Overcoming the lack of roles for black singers, Blair made his Lincoln Center New York debut as Jacquino in Beethoven's Rdelio in 1983. He also appeared in the world premiere of Dave Brubeck's Mass. To Hope: A Celebration, in Newark, New Jersey ...

... Stratford in cluded The Tempest (1946) and A Win ter's Tale (1960). He was born in Oxford in 1903, to a father who played Beethoven on the pianola and a mother of partly French descent. Fluent in French from boy hood, he read French at Merton College, Oxford ...