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Life of 'Pie: A Study in Contrasts: My Other Granny
A Study in Contrasts: My Other Granny kittenpie 2006
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"Contrasts" choral concert, the Georgetown University Concert Choir performs pairings of liturgical texts as conceived by different composers. 2 p.m.
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Ms. ALSOP: He actually commissioned Bartok to write a piece called "Contrasts," which is for solo clarinet, solo violin and piano, and this is interesting because this was the very first Bartok piece that I ever played as a violinist, I was 16 years old.
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(Soundbite of "Contrasts") SIMON: He was a dedicated anti-fascist, opposed the fascist government that took root in Hungary, and I gather he even refused to perform in Germany after Hitler took power there, emigrated to the United States in 1940 but was openly unhappy about it.
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Then followed a clever series of "Contrasts," such as the professional fasting man fortune-making at the Aquarium, and a Balaclava hero left to starve by a grateful country -- thus repeating unconsciously Cruikshank's famous plate of "Born a Genius: Born a Dwarf," wherein the tragedy of
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Testament to the New, and this doctrine he had amply illustrated in his great (lost) work, Antithesis, or "Contrasts".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Testament, proposes to handle the 'Contrasts': [Greek: pros autas tas antitheseis tôn logiôn chôrêsômen].
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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The raw ferocity brought to the Bartok "Contrasts" by violinist Joseph Genualdi, clarinetist Larry Combs and pianist Frank carried over into gutsy and altogether winning performances of her own works.
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Bethlehem (610-866-6600) "Contrasts," interpretations of the female figure by photographers Olaf Starorypinski and Scott Nichol; through March 31
Berks county news 2009
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a fanatic, in the cause; whose "Contrasts" (1836) is not only a landmark in the history of the revival of mediaeval art, but a most instructive illustration of the manner in which an aesthetic admiration of the Middle
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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