Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Other composers of major violin concertos include Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walton, Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Kan-no.

In 1987 John Britten developed the Aero-D One featuring a composite monocoque chassis that only weighed 12 kg.

John Piper ( artist ) | John Piper's Benjamin Britten memorial window in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh

Following the financial loss of the tour, it was decided that Glyndebourne would not send out any more tours, and in response, Britten along with Peter Pears, his librettist Eric Crozier and designer John Piper set up The English Opera Group with the express role of presenting new opera on tour.

", Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Augustus John, George Orwell, Herbert Read ( chairman ), Osbert Sitwell and George Woodcock set up the Freedom Defence Committee to " uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organizations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action.

After Britten ’ s own death in 1976, the artistic direction of the Festival was shared ; many world-class musicians joined the artistic team, including at various times Philip Ledger, Colin Graham, Steuart Bedford, Mstislav Rostropovich, Murray Perahia, Simon Rattle, John Shirley-Quirk and Oliver Knussen.

In 1999, a sole Artistic Director in the Britten mould – composer, solo performer, accompanist and conductor – was appointed in Thomas Adès, joined in 2004 by composer John Woolrich, first as Guest Artistic Director then as an Associate Artistic Director.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

* John Britten ( 1950 – 1995 ), New Zealand motorcycle designer

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Later alumni include Benjamin Britten, Colin Davis, Gwyneth Jones, Neville Marriner, Gillian Weir, Trevor Pinnock, Anna Russell, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the guitarist John Williams.

The residences are named after Horatio Nelson, John Constable, Benjamin Britten, Jeremiah Colman, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.

He learned the clarinet while serving in the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone after his sapper friend John A. Britten gave him a clarinet that he had bought at a bazaar and had no use for.

The group has given hundreds of world premieres and some of the most important composers include Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Georges Aperghis, Harrison Birtwistle, Benjamin Britten, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Edison Denisov, James Dillon, Hugues Dufourt, Pascal Dusapin, Ivan Fedele, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Luca Francesconi, Francisco Guerrero, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jonathan Harvey, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Conlon Nancarrow, Roger Reynolds, Wolfgang Rihm, Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis.

They have given world premieres of works by William Alwyn, Benjamin Britten, Alan Bush, Daniel Jones, Gordon Crosse, Nicholas Maw, Panufnik and John McCabe.

He subsequently became a teacher at the College himself, his pupils including Richard Arnell and Ernest John Moeran ( who both admired him ); Benjamin Britten ( who found Ireland's teaching less interesting ); the socialist composer Alan Bush ; Geoffrey Bush ( no relation to Alan ), who subsequently edited or arranged many of Ireland's works for publication ; and Anthony Bernard.

Other notable British composers ; Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Henry Wood, John Taverner, John Blow, Arthur Sullivan, William Walton, John Stafford Smith, Henry Bishop, Ivor Novello, Malcolm Arnold, Michael Tippett and John Barry have made major contributions to British music, and are known internationally.

Desmond John Morris FZS, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist.

Demands in Britain, for example by the Marxist John Desmond Bernal, for centrally planned scientific research led Polanyi to defend the claim that science requires free debate.

Newer contributors who appeared in this period include Anthony Barbieri, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, John Caldwell, Desmond Devlin, Drew Friedman, Barry Liebmann, Kevin Pope, Scott Maiko, Hermann Mejia, Tom Richmond, Andrew J. Schwartzberg, Mike Snider, Greg Theakston, Nadina Simon, Rick Tulka and Bill Wray.

It was directed by Derek Goldby and designed by Desmond Heeley and starred Paul Hecht as the Player, Brian Murray as Rosencrantz and John Wood as Guildenstern.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

* John Desmond Bernal

* July 23 – At the Battle of Callann, the Normans, under John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond, are defeated by the Gaelic forces of Fínghin Mac Carthaigh, King of Desmond.

In a spill-over from the War of the Roses, according to R. J. Mitchell in John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, the Earl of Desmond and his two youngest sons ( still children ) were executed there on Valentine's Day, 1468, on orders of the Earl of Worcester, the Lord Deputy of Ireland.

In honour of her gold medal win in Sydney, she represented Oceania in carrying the Olympic flag at the opening ceremonies of the next Olympics, in Salt Lake City, joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( Africa ), John Glenn ( The Americas ), Kazuyoshi Funaki ( Asia ), Lech Wałęsa ( Europe ), Jean-Michel Cousteau ( Environment ), Jean-Claude Killy ( Sport ), and Steven Spielberg ( Culture ).

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

In 1953, John Desmond opened the first architectural firm in Hammond.

A Bernal sphere is a type of space habitat intended as a long-term home for permanent residents, first proposed in 1929 by John Desmond Bernal.

There were brief appearances by Geoffrey Russell ( Sir Henry Thorpe ), Desmond Llewelyn ( Sir Charles Thorpe, father of Sir Henry ); Mark Eden ( Detective Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's brother in law ), John Duttine ( Wally Pratt, bellringer ) and Kenneth Colley (" Potty " Peake, local resident )

The opening night cast included Roslyn Roseman as Usherette / Magenta, Needa Greene as Janet Weiss, Robert Reynolds as Brad Majors, Richard Gee as the Narrator, Buddy King as Riff-Raff, Paula Desmond as Columbia, Bob Dulaney as Rocky Horror, and Emil Borelli as Eddie / Dr. Everett Scott, with back-up vocals by Vikki D ' Orazi, William J. Tacke and Kelly St. John.

Their children were John, Mary, Mark and Desmond.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

He expressed his enthusiasm for Irish soldiers, considering those who had fought under the Geraldine John of Desmond as resolute as any in Europe ; in 1579 he had commented that the only difference between English and Irish soldiers lay in the superior discipline of the former.

Short term cast members included: Peter Adams, Briony Behets, Pat Bishop, Aileen Britton, Chelsea Brown, Carlotta, Anne Charleston, Chantal Contouri, Lynette Curran, Lorrae Desmond, Carmen Duncan, Paula Duncan, Judi Farr, Jill Forster, Joseph Furst, Arianthe Galani, Vivienne Garrett, Pamela Garrick, Deborah Gray, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Wendy Hughes, Chris King, Josephine Knur, Anne Louise Lambert, Margaret Laurence, Joanna Lockwood, Judy McBurney, Diana McLean, John McTernan, Vince Martin, Ray Meagher, Julieanne Newbould, John Orcsik, Shane Porteous, Candy Raymond, Tristan Rogers, June Salter, Justine Saunders, Mary Ann Severne, Henri Szeps, Malcolm Thompson, Rowena Wallace and Norman Yemm.

Mrs. William Odell, Mrs. Clinton B. King, John Holabird Jr., Norman Boothby, and Actress Maureen O'Sullivan will judge the costumes in the grand march at the Affaire Old Towne Bal Masque tomorrow in the Germania club.

Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that Mackenzie was in the # 11 place just after John Sparrow David Thompson.

John of Worcester, a medieval chronicler, stated that Ealdred crowned King Harold II in 1066, although the Norman chroniclers mention Stigand as the officiating prelate.

* The Archbishopric of Canterbury, from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest, by John William Lamb ", Published 1971, Faith Press, from Google Book Search

In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.

County Dublin was one of the first parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the Norman invasion of Ireland.

Various other conservative Christian leaders — among them John Ankerberg and Norman Geisler — have emphasized themes similar to Martin's.

Dublin Castle, which became the centre of Norman power in Ireland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

* 1931 – John Norman, American author

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

John Norman " Johnny " Haynes ( 17 October 1934 – 18 October 2005 ) was an English footballer, best known for his 18 years at Fulham.

John ( 24 December 1166 – 18 / 19 October 1216 ), also known as John Lackland ( Norman French: Johan sanz Terre ), was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death.

When war with France broke out again in 1202, John achieved early victories, but shortages of military resources and his treatment of Norman, Breton and Anjou nobles resulted in the collapse of his empire in northern France in 1204.

With Norman law favouring John as the only surviving son of Henry II and Angevin law favouring Arthur as the heir of Henry's elder son, the matter rapidly became an open conflict.

John was supported by the bulk of the English and Norman nobility and was crowned at Westminster, backed by his mother, Eleanor.

* Moss, V. D. ( 2007 ) " The Norman Exchequer Rolls of King John ," in Church ( ed ) 2007.

( 2007 ) " King John and the Norman Aristocracy ," in Church ( ed ) 2007.

Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century.

* Pounds, Norman John Greville.

The theorem is named after Henry Gordon Rice, and is also known as the Rice-Myhill-Shapiro theorem after Rice, John Myhill, and Norman Shapiro.