Holbrooke's other board memberships included the American Museum of Natural History, Malaria No More ( a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria ), Partnership for a Secure America, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

On January 14, 2011, Holbrooke's memorial service was held at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Farrow was among the close staffers reported to have been present the night of Holbrooke's death in December 2010.

A particular target was Ernest Newman, initially an enthusiast for Holbrooke's music but who latterly became cool towards the composer:

Holbrooke's imagination was essentially illustrative:

under Granville Bantock in 1943, when Holbrooke's music was totally unfamiliar to anyone of a later generation, revealed this personal and distinctive sound-texture but otherwise seemed shapeless and repetitive.

Only a small fraction of Holbrooke's large output has been recorded, although he was deeply interested in promoting his music through various reproductive formats.

:" Perhaps Tchaikovsky has swayed him more than any other writer, although Mr. Holbrooke's music has nothing of the languorous grace of the Russian master's ; it is rougher and more ragged at the edges, but it has much of Tchaikovsky's fire.

:" The texture of Holbrooke's music is un-Wagnerian, and if kinship with another composer must be found, it should be with Richard Strauss ; but Holbrooke's score is not voluptuous like Wagner's, nor full of nervous frenzy like Strauss '.

The tendency towards the pictorial rather than the abstract in his music undoubtedly stemmed from Holbrooke's tuition at the Royal Academy: his reputation, along with that of other composers ( including Granville Bantock and Arnold Bax ) who studied under Frederick Corder, an ardent Wagnerian, has consequently suffered from what has been perceived as a lack of rigorous musical thought and an assumed want of self-criticism:

Holbrooke's last words before being sedated for surgery, which have been clarified to have been a comical interchange with his doctor, were: " You've got to end this war in Afghanistan.

The symphony ( of nearly 37 minutes duration ) is coupled with two other premiere recordings of British orchestral works, Alexander MacKenzie's Tone Poem, ' La Belle Dame sans Merci ', and Josef Holbrooke's Pantomime Suite op. 16 on CC9034CD.

Several considered Holbrooke's role in the Dayton Accords to merit the Nobel Peace Prize.

Collaboration on two further operas, The Children of Don ( first performed at the London Opera House, conducted by Thomas Beecham, on 12 June 1912 ) and Bronwen, brought about the completion of Holbrooke's most ambitious project, a trilogy under the collective title The Cauldron of Annwn setting Scott-Ellis ' versions of tales from the Welsh Mabinogion.

Holbrooke's mother, whose Jewish family fled Hamburg in 1933 for Buenos Aires before coming to New York, took him to Quaker meetings on Sundays.

Holbrooke's other achievements as UN Ambassador included getting the United Nations Security Council to debate and pass a resolution on HIV / AIDS, the first time that body had treated public health as a matter of global security.

However, " Holbrooke's skill set did not lead to much accomplishment in Afghanistan.

* Holbrooke's plan to avoid the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

* Holbrooke's plan to avoid the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

Holbrooke's The Wild Fowl, written in 1912, is an episode from his opera The Children of Don, Op 56, for wind instruments only, including a part for alto clarinet.

The first movement of Joseph Holbrooke's Fourth Symphony, one of the British entrants for the competition, is mostly a performing version of Schubert's scherzo ( the trio of which had to be completed ), and a theme from the scherzo appears in his finale.

Holbrooke's statement hints at one of the major effects of precision, namely that the traditional notion of massing a large ground force to confront an opponent, particularly on a " field of battle " is now rendered archaic.

Holbrooke's mother died in 1880 from tuberculosis, leaving the family in the care of Joseph senior, who settled the family in London and took the position of pianist at Collins ' Music Hall, Islington, and later at the Bedford Music Hall.

I am tempted to think that Mr. Holbrooke is only discussing his own grievances against the English public, and that the real heading of his articles should be ' Holbrooke's v. German or any other music '"

[...] Mr. Holbrooke's position is analogous to that of the street-minstrel.

Despite the name, the group never played Holbrooke's compositions.

Nonetheless, his stated ambition of substantially improving Britain's long-term economic performance remained largely unfulfilled.

From 1962 until 1968 an Australia Cup was held, but its ambition of becoming an FA Cup style knockout competition went unfulfilled.

However, feeling unfulfilled with acting, Ewa remarried a builder named Cesare Paladino in 1974 and abandoned her acting career to enrol at university and fulfil her childhood ambition of becoming a teacher.

However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as " putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas ", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.

He died of dysentery in 1422, leaving a number of unfulfilled plans, one of which was to lead a new crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims.

Instead of conscious planning, the Soviet economy was based on a process whereby the plan was modified by localized agents and the original plans went largely unfulfilled.

Roosevelt was embarrassed by his corporate financing and was unable to clear a suspicion of a quid pro quo exchange with E. H. Harriman for what was an eventually unfulfilled ambassador nomination.

Away from his expeditions, Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled.

Gary ' Magic ' Marker ( the " Magic " added by Beefheart ) was involved in early session work for this release, and his involvement with Rising Sons was also instrumental in acquiring the skills of Cooder, upon an unfulfilled suggestion that Marker might produce the album.

These hopes proved unfulfilled as then-Kuomintang member James Soong was elected governor of the Taiwan province by a wide margin defeating the DPP candidate Chen Ding-nan.

As Robson recalled, " I never played for England again ... my international career was unfulfilled ".

As part of an " unfulfilled gifts clause " left unmentioned in Henry's will, Thomas was granted the title Baron Seymour of Sudeley.

The unfulfilled intention was for a through station with services to the City.

In his Histories he mentions that he will devote a whole section to the history of Assyria, but this promise was unfulfilled, or perhaps the book has been lost.

The promise of reform in the document initially went unfulfilled: in particular, a parliament with real power was not established until 1890, and the Meiji oligarchy from Satsuma, Chōshū, Tosa and Hizen retained political and military control well into the 20th century.

The author of the 1878 History of Livingston County says only two things about Mr. Forrest: he was a business partner of C. L. Frost, an official of the Toledo, Peoria and Western, and that he had promised to do something for the young village and that promise was “ unfulfilled .” The first version of the name was said to be Forestville, spelled with one ‘ r ,” but Forrest quickly came into use.

But the terms of the original grant were unfulfilled, so Bath was regranted on March 29, 1769 by Governor John Wentworth.

His opponents, however, charge that Zhu's tough and pragmatic stance on policy was unrealistic and unnecessary, and many of his promises were left unfulfilled.

" Thus the dispensation was not a posteriori, and concerned with unfulfilled obligations of the past year, but a priori and having reference to vows one might not be able to fulfill or might forget to observe during the ensuing year.

Additionally, there was the distinct probability that a person would die with unfulfilled vows having been made since the previous Day of Atonement, so annulling these vows in advance might diminish the weight such unkept vows imposed on him at his death.

They went on to perform for Israel, placing eighth ; however the culture minister's threat was left unfulfilled.

Fair success of the fundraising in Tokyo was offset in a way by an unfulfilled promise of Tsunegusu, one of the major promoters of the project.