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A Conversation with Agnes Grossmann - The WholeNote  Jun 30, 2009 ... For four years Agnes Grossmann has been artistic director of the Toronto ... She then took up conducting  in a country where women are given few ... and my father, who was my first teacher, discovered that I had absolute pitch. ... as an artist in residence, to take over the university's orchestra and choir.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri  Page 43  November 16, 1997 ... It's been said that being in a band is a lot like being married. ... 'For a woman, it was very diffi cult," said Grossmann from Vienna j "I could teach, but I ... and the power to realize it She is the first artistic director to have a real ... the vocal standards of the group, which have been in decline in recent years.
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The Grey Labyrinth :: View topic - Twenty Years of "Final Jeopardy"  FAMOUS NOVELS: The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is ..... MUSIC: In 1997 Agnes Grossmann took over as the 1st woman artistic director of this group in its 500-year history.
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Agnes Grossmann - The Canadian Encyclopedia  Dec 14, 2013 ... She was artistic director of the Wiener Singakademie Choir in Vienna (1983-6) ... Grossmann also took the Vienna Boys' Choir on a tour of North America. ... In 1987, she was named Woman of the Year, in the arts category, at the ... "Agnes Grossmann and Raffi Armenian," Montreal Gazette, 30 March 1997.
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Long biography  Acclaimed conductor with whom music has regained its rightful place, the first . (J.J.Vlasselaer, Ottawa), Agnes Grossmann has been, in the thirty year span of her conduct- ing career, Artistic Director of several illustrious organizations : Wiener ... (1986-1995), ProCoro Canada, Edmonton, Alberta (1995-1997), the Vienna...
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  IN 1976 SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO CONDUCT THE METROPOLITAN .... BILL CLINTON THOUGHT OF MAKING ZOE BAIRD THE FIRST FEMALE ATTORNEY GENERAL BUT IN THE END IT WAS THIS WOMAN, JANET RENO.
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Featured Artists - American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet  Mar 5, 2014 ... She won Le Prix de Lausanne in 2009 and the first prize in the senior ... was appointed Director of Dance at the Paris Opera by Stephane .... de danse de l'Opra in 1999 to join the corps de ballet in 1997, and become soloist in 2014. ... and Claude Bessy  then director of the ballet school - convinced her...
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Europe's Cultural Capital For '96 Takes a Longer View - The New ...  Aug 28, 1996 ... Copenhagen, this year's European cultural capital, uses the occasion to ... ''Copenhagen '96 became a clearinghouse for projects long under discussion ... and as a new ballet performed by the Royal Danish Ballet on a floating stage ... and the New York Philharmonic, which is on a nine-city European tour.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland - TheXtraordinary  After being inspired by Gro's leadership, the tables were turnedmore mothers ... threatened global health, Gro did an awesome job in educating health organizations ... Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first woman Prime Minister of Norway. ... She served as DirectorGeneral of the World Health Organization for 5 years.
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12 Women Who Ruled Cannes - MSN.com  May 20, 2016 ... Across 69 editions, the Cannes Film Festival has long recognized the work of auteurs from ... Only 10 women have served as Jury President: Olivia de Havilland (the first ... Ingrid Bergman (1973), Jeanne Moreau (1975 and 1995), Francoise .... From actress to director, French filmmaker Maiwenn has played...
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Music in Review - The New York Times  Oct 31, 2006 ... Maria Guleghina assumes the crown of Tosca, the Tokyo String Quartet ... stage jewels Swarovski made for Maria Callas's first Met Tosca in 1956. ... The real news about the evening began with Ms. Guleghina's strong, passionate performance. ... This speaks well for her artistry, and for her Tosca: the pitch...
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Jeopary Questions page 624 - 1999 ANNIVERSARIES - TriviaBistro ...  MUSICAL THEATRE: Act I of this 1997 "Best Musical" features an opening sequence titled "The Launching"  SWITZERLAND: The flag of this international...
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Symphony Orchestras and Artist-Prophets  There is only one woman among the Vienna Philharmonic's 150 members: their second harpist, Anna Lelkes. After having performed with them unofficially for 26 years, she was given membership in 1997, in order to stem ... The soul does not let itself be separated from the cultural roots that we have here in central Europe.
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jeopardy/267_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ART BIENNIALS | This country's first "Documenta" highlighted the artists of the "Degenerate Art" propaganda exhibit of 1937 | Germany. right: Ben. Wrong:.
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First exhibition in U.S. of paintings from Juan Abell Collection ends ...  Featuring works spanning 500 years of Western art. July 30, 2015. The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is featuring the first exhibition in the United ... Along with his wife Anna Gamazo, Abell has amassed more than 500 ... Algur H. Meadows, who similarly devoted his fortune to the collection, study, and...
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Celine's Maniacs - Archivio 2006  Oct 31, 2007 ... (3:10 p.m. GMT) Secondo Billboard, gli spettacoli di Cline dal 10 al 14 ... It's the first time she's been on a UK stage for five years. .... October 25th, 2007 ..... During her Las Vegas run of her very successful theatrical show "A New Day," ..... in March 2003, with almost 3 million people having seen the show.
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A Model of Courage | A.R.T. - American Repertory Theater  Helene Weigel, Brecht's wife and the co-founder of the Berliner Ensemble, gave the first ... Brecht with his first major success as a playwright directing his own work. ... He returned to Germany in 1948, fleeing the States after a close encounter with ... in 1949, "As it stands, Mother Courage can also be staged in the old way.
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Gustav Mahler | - Gustav Mahler |  Jan 6, 2015 ... He was at various times the music director of La Scala Milan, the ... Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (193754), and this led to his becoming a ... Early years.
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Sacred Monster - The New Yorker  Oct 28, 2002 ... Olivier Messiaen's St. Francis of Assisi, the grandest grand opera since Wagner's Parsifal, came into being in 1983, during the first Reagan .... Kent Nagano, the conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, led The...
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Richard Bonynge - Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation  His first appearance as a conductor was in Rome in January 1962. ... In 1954 he married the soprano, Joan Sutherland and their son, Adam, was born in 1956. Richard Bonynge was Musical Director of the Sutherland-Williamson Grand ... of the Vancouver Opera, 1974-77 and Musical Director of The Australian Opera,...
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Agnes de Mille an essay by Barbara Palfy - Dance Heritage Coalition  choreographer and writer who opened ... The die was cast and she ... Ballet Theatre was formed in 1940, creating for its first season Black Ritual (Obeah), with an all-black cast, and for the next season. Three Virgins and a Devil, a lusty medieval comedy. It was with what became her signature ballet, Rodeo in 1942, that her.