10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAVENER»
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Tavener in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before a Fountain
This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France ...
Mary Tavener Holmes, 2006
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A Giraffe Goes to Paris
The true story of Belle the giraffe, a gift from the pasha of Egypt to the king of France in 1827, and her 500-mile walk to Paris as told through the imagined words of her devoted Sudanese caretaker, Atir.
Mary Tavener Holmes, John Harris, 2010
Set in the world of city finance, the BBC an d politics, In the Red is the blackly humorous tale of the i nvestigation into the deaths of several bank managers, all o f whom were murdered using 1 coins. '
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The Music of Silence: A Composer's Testament
With his wide intellectual curiosity and searching musical imagination it comes as no surprise that he possesses a profound and far-reaching musical "philosophy." The Music of Silence gives voice to this philosophy.
John Tavener, Brian Keeble, 1999
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Lifting the veil: the biography of Sir John
Tavener
It was not, however, until the 1980s when Mother Thekla, a Greek Orthodox nun, became his librettist and spiritual guide, that Tavener found massive commercial success, with the Number One Bestseller and Protecting Veil.Piers Dudgeon has ...
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Annals of the Parish of North Wraxhall, Wilts
106 Tavener Isaac, married Oetober 2, 1905, to Sarah Brookman of Marshfield.
Tavener Jane, baptised August 19, 1792, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Tavener.
Tavener Jane, I>uried July 11, 1793, widow. Tavener John, baptised March 30, ...
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Classical Music: The Listener's Companion
MOORE/MAGIL John Tavener (b. 1944) The English have enjoyed great sacred
choral music for centuries, and the 20th is no exception. The great cathedrals
have provided optimum settings for the distinctive British sound produced by ...
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Religion: Beyond a Concept
In contrast to, e.g., Pierre Boulez, who is a prolific writer himself, Tavener has
used a ghost writer for his most important book to date, Brian Keeble, ed., John
Tavener: The Music of Silence, A Composer s Testament (London: Faber and
Faber, ...
... 20 Slimes, Value of, and Reduction by Lime-water (Williams), 41 Slimes, Zinc-
Gold, Acid Treatment of, Cost of (Tavener and others), 117, 120, 121, 140, 145,
147 Slimes, Zinc-Gold, Acid Treatment of, and Loss of Gold (Williams and others),
...
South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1903
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Theology, Music and Time
and radiant compositions of John Tavener (b. 1944) have recently enjoyed huge
popularity, especially since the premiere of The Protecting Veil in 1989 and the
performance of his Songfor Athene at Princess Diana's funeral service in 1997.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAVENER»
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Ryanair passenger Davina Tavener collapsed and died in toilet on …
'In relation to Mrs Tavener's death, it is difficult to know whether any equipment would have assisted, because there was a five to 10 minute period when she was ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
Sound and vision: John Tavener's Flood of Beauty
With Flood of Beauty, John Tavener created a piece of music that evokes this very feeling. Lasting 100 minutes and requiring an orchestra, dozens of singers, ... «New Statesman, Oct 14»
John Tavener Remembered review: powerful, lyrical and sparsely …
John Tavener, who died last November, had made the concept of Total Immersion central to his music long before the BBC Symphony Orchestra thought of ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
Flood of Beauty review – posthumous Tavener premiere is lost in …
There have been a number of posthumous premieres since John Tavener died last November, but nothing on the scale of Flood of Beauty. A 100-minute setting ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
Maryanna Tavener: 'John was always obsessed by death'
John Tavener was the great outsider in British classical music, a traditionalist in a modernist era, and flamboyantly religious where most of his peers were ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
BBC Proms: The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener, Royal Albert Hall …
It takes a very specific kind of music to set the tone for a late-night concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and the intimate religious devotion of John Tavener could ... «Financial Times, Aug 14»
Prom 7: Shostakovich, Bartók & Tavener @ Royal Albert Hall, London
Careful, considerate and diligent are three adjectives that spring to mind when considering the merits of the BBC SO's former Chief Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, ... «musicOMH.com, Jul 14»
Prom 7: BBCSO/Bělohlávek review – Tavener, Shostakovich and …
When he died last November, John Tavener had already completed a ... and percussion, in many ways the still, static Gnosis covers familiar Tavener territory. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
John Tavener works receive Proms world premieres
It's a simple observation by the acting director of the BBC Proms, Edward Blakeman, that sums up the appeal of British composer Sir John Tavener. Since his ... «BBC News, Jul 14»
Huw Watkins/John Tavener, Cheltenham Music Festival, review …
This was the curtain-raiser for a concert in memory of John Tavener, who died earlier this year. His Scatter Roses Over My Tears was a modest 14-minute ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
