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Bess became famous for her building projects, especially two of them: Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire ( whose family name is still " Cavendish ", because they are descended from the children of her second marriage ), and Hardwick Hall, of which it has been said: " Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall ", because of the number and size of its windows.
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Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.
While in London, Bess contracted the first of four marriages, to 14-year-old Robert Barlow, heir to a neighbouring estate, and became Elizabeth Barlow.
On 20 August 1547, Bess married the twice-widowed Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King's Chamber, and became Lady Cavendish.
In 1559, Bess married a third time, to Sir William St. Loe ( St Lowe, Saintlowe, or Sentloe ), and became Lady St Loe.
On his death in 1590, Bess became Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury.
Bess of Hardwick was also imprisoned, as Elizabeth became convinced that the marriage was part of a wider conspiracy against herself.
Their ancestor Bess of Hardwick had taken one of her four husbands, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to " take the waters " at Buxton shortly after he became the gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, and they took Mary there in 1573.
Todd Duncan was a D. C .- born singer who made history by being the first to play the lead of the opera Porgy and Bess ; he later became the first black man to play Tonio in I Pagliacci.
Upon his return to Texas he became engaged to Miss Bess Brown and they married on June 9, 1904, in Austin.
She developed a strong interest in acting and became inspired to become an actor at age 9 after she watched a theatre production of Porgy and Bess, an opera by George Gershwin.
As Harry Truman became active in politics Bess Truman traveled with him, sharing his platform appearances as the public had come to expect of a candidate's wife.
Upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman took the presidential oath of office and Bess Truman became the new First Lady.
Perkins ' relationship with Elizabeth was ambiguous: on the one hand, she was Good Queen Bess, the monarch under whom England finally and firmly became a Protestant nation ; on the other hand, Perkins and the other members of the Puritan movement were frustrated that the Elizabethan settlement had not gone far enough and pushed for further Reformation.
With the introduction of a new pattern Short Land Pattern Flintlock Musket (' Brown Bess ') in 1810, with its flat lock and ring-necked cock, the Baker's lock followed suit for what became the fourth pattern.
For example, her lady-in-waiting, Bess Throckmorton, became pregnant with Walter Raleigh's child in the summer of 1591 three years after the defeat of the Armada, not immediately before.
Weir states that Queen Elizabeth first became aware in May 1592 of Raleigh's offense of seducing Bess, a lady-in-waiting and therefore ward of the Queen, as well as the couple's offense of marrying without royal permission.
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He married as his third wife the famous Bess of Hardwick, with whom he had eight children.
He is also known for a fictional overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
He married as his second wife the famous Bess of Hardwick.
Miss Marple is intrigued by the other guests in the tearoom, especially a famous adventuress, Bess Sedgwick ; a young woman, Elvira Blake, and her guardian Colonel Luscombe ; and a forgetful clergyman, Canon Pennyfather.
Her mother, Bess Sedgwick, had abandoned her as a toddler to become a famous star and adventurer, and has not kept in touch.
Bess was, for a time, the husband of Tootsie Bess, longtime owner of Nashville's famous downtown bar Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a hangout for country entertainers.
) Smallens also conducted the Porgy and Bess revivals on Broadway in 1942 and 1953, as well as the famous 1952 world tour of the work, which culminated in that 1953 Broadway production.
* Porgy and Bess ( 1953 ) ( The famous world tour production featuring Leontyne Price.
Georgette Harvey ( 1882 – 1952 ) was an American singer and actress, perhaps most famous for creating the role of Maria in the original 1935 Broadway production of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.
* Porgy and Bess ( 1952 ), a live recording, released in 2008, of a 1952 Hamburg Germany performance by the famous Davis / Breen touring company, starring Leontyne Price, William Warfield, and Cab Calloway.
" Catfish Row ", originally titled " Suite from Porgy and Bess ", is an orchestral work by George Gershwin based upon music from his famous opera.
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His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).
He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.
Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a number of years.
London's pet name for Bess was " Mother-Girl " and Bess's for London was " Daddy-Boy ".
When the US entered World War II at the end of 1941, Lombard traveled to her home state of Indiana for a war bond rally with her mother, Bess Peters, and Clark Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler.
Much of the recitative of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, for instance, is merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's play Porgy set to music as written-in prose-with the lyrics of the arias, duets, trios and choruses written in verse.
Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).
Louis Armstrong served as a model for Cab Calloway, whose 1930s scat solos inspired Gershwin's use of the medium in his Porgy and Bess ; it was from the 1926 recording of " Heebie Jeebies " arose the techniques that would form the foundation of modern scat.
An accomplished needlewoman, Bess hosted Mary at Chatsworth House for extended periods in 1569, 1570, and 1571, during which time they worked together on the Oxburgh Hangings.
In addition to her own six children, Bess was now responsible for the two daughters of Sir William Cavendish from his first marriage.
Despite being courted by several suitors, Bess remained single for a relatively long time, until 1568, when she married for the fourth time to become Countess of Shrewsbury.
The Countess of Lennox, mother of the bridegroom, went to the Tower for several months, and Bess was ordered to London to face an official inquiry, but she ignored the summons, and remained in Sheffield until the row died down.
Around the same time Mary was removed from his custody, Shrewsbury and Bess separated for good — they had been apart off-and-on since about 1580, and even Queen Elizabeth had tried to get them to reconcile.
In his teens, he toured with Dorothy Dandridge and Nat King Cole, joined the Wings Over Jordan Gospel Singers for a while, and also played a small part in the film Porgy and Bess.
She first confided in Bess of Hardwick, who refused to listen to Catherine and berated her for implicating her.
Other treasures include an eighteenth-century nave with a wrought iron rood screen by Robert Bakewell, for which he charged the church £ 157. 10. 0d ; the memorial to Bess of Hardwick ; and the Cavendish brasses, including those of Henry Cavendish and Georgiana Spencer, the wife of one of the Dukes of Devonshire.
* Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire: Greatest English prodigy house, built for Bess of Hardwick.
Kae Williams added four years to Burke's age to avoid having to get the approval of Burke's parents ( thus creating confusion about his age for decades ), and introduced him to Bess Berman, who signed him to her label.
In December 1955 Burke was signed to Apollo, soon after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Apollo's primary star, had left for Columbia Records, accusing Apollo of cheating her out of her royalties, and the owner, Bessie " Bess " Berman ( born June 3, 1902 in New York ; died October 29, 1997 ), of " having a plantation attitude toward Negroes.
In the middle of the 19th century, muskets and muzzle-loading rifles were. 58 caliber or larger ; the Brown Bess flintlock, for example, had a bore diameter of about. 75 caliber ( 19 mm ).
* The Lighting Archive online complete lighting paperwork for West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, by lighting designers Nick Cernovich, Jean Rosenthal, Ken Billington, and Gilbert Helmsley
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