Radio, Television and West End actor Stephen Critchlow was raised and schooled in Mansfield and pianist John Ogdon was born in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1937.

John Andrew Howard Ogdon ( 27 January 1937 – 1 August 1989 ) was an English pianist and composer.

John Ogdon was able to play most pieces at sight and had committed a huge range of pieces to memory.

Ogdon was also a formidable exponent of the works of Alkan and Busoni.

Ogdon and Diana McVeigh developed a performing version of the piece from Elgar's manuscript, which was full of corrections, crossings out and additions.

Ogdon spent some time in the Maudsley Hospital in London, and in general needed more nursing than it was possible to provide while touring.

John Ogdon was played by Alfred Molina, who won a Best Actor award from the Royal Television Society for his performance.

While there he met fellow composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, who, together with pianist John Ogdon and conductor Elgar Howarth, formed the New Music Manchester group, dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works.

In his composition classes Goehr became friends with young composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle and pianist John Ogdon, with whom he founded the New Music Manchester Group.

Peter Hill's performances on a Bösendorfer Imperial at the Northern College of Music earned high praise from John Ogdon in his review for Tempo.

Together with composer Wilbur Ogdon he founded the music department at the University of California San Diego in 1967: " We decided we wanted a department where composers could feel at home, the way scholars feel at home in other schools.

Several years after their visit to La Jolla, Will Ogdon, then UCSD's Department of Music chair, invited the Reynoldses back to the area, offering Reynolds a position as an associate professor.

Earl Wild, Ozan Marsh and John Ogdon were among his international students.

His notable students include John Adams, Milton Babbitt, Jack Behrens, Elmer Bernstein, Robert Cogan, Robert Black, Edward T. Cone, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, David Del Tredici, Alan Fletcher, Carlton Gamer, Steven Gellman, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Walter Hekster, Robert Helps, Andrew Imbrie, Earl Kim, Fred Lerdahl, Leon Kirchner, David Lewin, William Mayer, Conlon Nancarrow, Roger Nixon, Will Ogdon, Claire Polin, Einojuhani Rautavaara, William Schimmel, Richard St. Clair, Roland Trogan, George Tsontakis, John Veale, Peter Westergaard, Rolv Yttrehus and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

His American students include the composers Will Ogdon, Janet Maguire, the conductor David Montgomery, and the avant-garde film director-animator John Whitney.

Instrumentalists have included Ruggiero Ricci, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dennis Brain, Osian Ellis, Cecil Aronowitz, Nia Harries, John Ogdon to name a few, and more recently euphonium player David Childs, cellist Kathryn Price, trombonist Mark Eager and song pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen.

* 1937 – John Ogdon, English pianist ( d. 1989 )

* January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist ( d. 1989 )

* August 1 – John Ogdon, English pianist ( b. 1937 )

* " Brighten The Corner Where You Are " w. Ina Duley Ogdon m. Charles H. Gabriel

British pianist John Ogdon, one of the champions of the work, called it " the longest and grandest piano concerto of all.

The most famous of these is La Campanella ( BV B 68 ), which has been championed by pianists such as Ignaz Friedman and Josef Lhévinne, and more recently by John Ogdon.

* 1962: Vladimir Ashkenazy and John Ogdon shared first prize.

Works by Alkan have also been recorded by John Ogdon, Raymond Lewenthal, Jack Gibbons, Egon Petri, Mark Latimer, Stephanie McCallum, Alan Weiss, Steven Osborne and Marc-André Hamelin, amongst others.

* Glazunov: Piano Concerto ( with John Ogdon ); Yardumian: Passacaglia, Recitative & Fugue.

She has collaborated with such composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Vinko Globokar, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Foss, Betsy Jolas, Will Ogdon, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Erickson.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.