The premiere took place on 30 May 1962, in the rebuilt cathedral with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Meredith Davies ( accompanying soprano and chorus ), and the Melos Ensemble, conducted by the composer ( accompanying tenor and baritone ).

The modern Welsh poet John Davies of Denbighshire ( 1841-94 ) took the bardic name of Taliesin Hiraethog.

He took up a post as music adviser at the nearby Bath Academy of Art and invited young composers to his house, including Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.

The show started with a broadcast of Ray Davies, during his " Storyteller " tour, and took its name from this first show.

Davies was already building a reputation as a popular film comedienne when Hearst took over her career, promoting her heavily through his newspapers, and pressuring the studios to cast her in historical dramas to which she was not suited.

* John Henry Davies ( died 1927 ), brewery owner who in 1902 took over the British football club Manchester United

The victim was a noted wit who had insulted him in public, and Davies immediately took a boat at the Temple steps and retired to Oxford, where he chose to write poetry.

Davies took on a less comedic role in 2004, starring as Henry Farmer, a maverick barrister, in the ITV Sunday night drama The Brief, but quit after two series.

Following the injury to the then Welsh captain Mervyn Davies, Bennett took over this role, which resulted in him becoming captain of the British Lions on the 1977 Tour.

Ray Davies of The Kinks took an initial interest in the group, although tracks produced by Davies did not surface commercially until decades later.

Davies and Red's founder Nicola Shindler took the project to the BBC, who quickly turned it down ; it found a home on ITV, a channel that had gained a reputation for producing mainstream, unchallenging, " middle-of-the-road " drama in recent years.

Davies was an alcoholic for decades, and this left him in a weakened state of health, particularly by the time he took on the burden of party leadership.

Major-General Francis Davies took command on 19 September 1914.

Former Welsh Secretary in the UK government Ron Davies had a " moment of madness " in 1998 in an incident that took place on the Common.

Davies was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1985 and at the University of London where he took a LLM degree.

When he first got the script in 2007, he was unsure if British television needed another Jane Austen adaptation but he took the role when he saw how Davies had given more screen time to the male characters than they get in the 1995 film adaptation.

In January 2010 Davies took part in the ITV series Dancing on Ice, partnered by regular participant Pavel Albrecht.

Finally, at Manchester United's home match against Fulham on 14 March, fans at the game received a replica copy of the programme from the first Old Trafford match, and half-time saw relatives of the players who took part in the first game – as well as those of the club chairman John Henry Davies and stadium architect Archibald Leitch – taking part in the burial of a time capsule of Manchester United memorabilia near the centre tunnel.

Friends who took part in the show included Terry Scott, Talbot Rothwell, Jimmy Jewell, John Casson and Rupert Davies.

In June he took the first nine wickets to fall in the first innings against Essex, ending with 9-138 ; had wicket-keeper Steven Davies not dropped a catch offered by last man Darren Gough he would have become the first bowler ever to take all ten for the county.

This was followed in 2005 with the publication of Emma Wilby's Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic, which took a somewhat different attitude to the cunning craft than Hutton and Davies, emphasising the spiritual as opposed to simply practical side to cunning folk's magic.

He joined Southampton in July 1998 valued at £ 1 million, as a make-weight part of the deal that took Kevin Davies to Ewood Park for £ 7 million.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

Grazing was also removed from Mounts Feathertop, Hotham and Bogong around this time, from around Mount Howitt in the 1980s, and from the northern Bogong High Plains, the Bluff and part of Davies Plains in the early 1990s, leaving about one third of the Alpine National Park – over 200, 000 hectares – available for grazing.

In March 2011, Howard Davies resigned over allegations about the institution's links to the Libyan regime.

Considering that Evans was necessarily not very clear on the Neolithic, being primarily interested in the palace, John Davies Evans ( no relation ), whose specialty was the Neolithic of the Aegean, undertook further excavations in pits and trenches over the palace, elucidating the Neolithic.

But thanks to the addition of young striker Kevin Davies, and the acquisition of a few others, Southampton achieved a respectable eleventh place finish in the table and managed a home win over Manchester United for the third consecutive season.

On "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman ", Davies vented his existential angst about the 1979 energy crisis over a thumping disco beat ; on " A Gallon of Gas ", he addressed the same concern over a traditional acoustic twelve-bar blues shuffle.

* The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O ' Neill, with Alan Tllvern taking over the role of Hickey from the " indisposed " Ian Holm, directed by Howard Davies ( May 1976 )

Part of the reason why the company was targeted was that the management buy-in group that had taken over Channel Television earlier in the same year was led by two former HTV executives-Huw Davies ( chief executive ) and David Jenkins ( finance director ).

* 23 August — Fred ‘ Tenby ’ Davies ( Wales ) defeats Bert Day ( Ireland ) at Pontypridd to become world champion over the half-mile distance run.

Davies ( 2010 ) lists over 500 websites, where links to online exercises can be found, along with links to online dictionaries and encyclopaedias, concordancers, translation aids and other miscellaneous resources of interest to the language teacher and learner.

Notable programmes produced by Southern Television over the years included the flagship regional news magazine Day by Day presented by an able team of presenters including Barry Westwood, Peter Clark, and long-serving weatherman Trevor Baker ; Out of Town, a countryside programme introduced by Jack Hargreaves, who would later join Southern's board of directors ; How, a children's science programme also featuring Hargreaves along with Fred Dinenage, Bunty James ( later replaced by Marian Davies ) and Jon Miller ; Freewheelers, a children's spy series ; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years and Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee as the eponymous walking scarecrow.

Debuting on June 10 with a 2 – 1 success over Albion, the first official goals for the club were scored by Juan Peña and William Davies.

It culminated with Davies insulting Avory and kicking over his drum set after finishing the first song, " You Really Got Me ".

Davies has played a number of guitars over time, the most recognizable of which is his Gibson Flying V. Davies bought it in 1965, and soon began appearing live and on TV performances with it.

Davies comments that the Christian begins from the confession of Jesus as Lord – Jesus who is sovereign over the individual ’ s relation to the state, “ we must understand the state in the context of the command to love one ’ s neighbour .” He had earlier quoted from an article on ‘ Priests and Socialism in Chile ’ written in 1971 by Maruja Echegoyen: “ Loving one ’ s neighbour, which is the first commandment by definition, today means working to destroy the structures that can destroy my neighbour, the people, the poor ”.

Finding pestilence and famine all over Ireland, Davies noted that the courts still commanded respect, but that the sloth of the protestant clergy and the ruin of the churches was detrimental to religion.

* “ Certainly, the wording and substance of the declaration of the Confederation of Warsaw of 28 January 1573 were extraordinary with regards to prevailing conditions elsewhere in Europe ; and they governed the principles of religious life in the Republic for over two hundred years .”-Norman Davies

From 2004 to 2009 the column was written by Russell T Davies, and since January 2010, Steven Moffat has taken over the page, although other writers and production staff have from time-to-time written the column.