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Sullivan's and last
The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premiered at the Savoy, and all of their operas came to be known as Savoy Operas.
The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premièred at the Savoy: Iolanthe ( 1882 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ), The Mikado ( 1885 ), Ruddigore ( 1887 ), The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ) The Gondoliers ( 1889 ), Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ), and The Grand Duke ( 1896 ), and the term Savoy Opera has come to be associated with all their joint works.
In 1889, The Great John L. Sullivan-one of the world's first sports superstars-came to Belfast to train for the last bare knuckle boxing championship with Belfast resident William Muldoon for what was arguably the most important fight of Sullivan's career.
Sullivan's Island Police Chief, Jack Lilien, was the last person to leave the island before the bridge gave way.
Apart from Sullivan's famous 1889 fight against Jake Kilrain, this is the last major bareknuckle contest fought under London Prize Ring Rules.
Elements of Thespis also appear in Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera together, The Grand Duke ( 1896 ), where a theatre company replaces the ruler and decides to " revive the classic memories of Athens at its best ".
The Gondoliers was Gilbert and Sullivan's last great success.
But The Gondoliers would prove to be Gilbert and Sullivan's last big hit.
During Sullivan's tenure as Ambassador to Iran, he played an important role in communicating America's directives to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the second and last Pahlavi king.
I remember that I broke my last sovereign to get a box of Sullivan's cigarettes for Raffles to smoke on the voyage.
During Sullivan's tenure as general manager and top executive, the Red Sox, with their history as the last pre-expansion MLB team to break the color line, were again criticized for institutional racism.

Sullivan's and major
Hanssen mostly wanted to chat about his interest in computer security technology and the new Intelink-FBI network that Sullivan's unit was building and installing throughout the Bureau's major field offices.
Sullivan's major contributions to the Navy's future directions include the advent of naval nuclear propulsion.
Sonia O ' Sullivan's first major international competition was the 1990 European Championships at Split, where she finished 11th in the 3000 m. However, O ' Sullivan improved quickly after that, and on 26 January the following year, at Boston, she set a new world indoor record in the 5000 m of 15: 17. 28, taking more than 5 seconds off the old record.
Haynes returned to the major promotions when he appeared under a mask in World Championship Wrestling as Black Blood in Kevin Sullivan's stable.
Under Colonel William Moultrie, the South Carolinians defeated the Royal Navy in the Battle of Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776 and brought the Patriot Continental Army a major victory.

Sullivan's and work
The critics felt that Sullivan's work in Iolanthe had taken a step forward.
Helmore encouraged the young Sullivan's composing talent and arranged for one of his pieces, " O Israel ", to be published in 1855, Sullivan's first published work.
Sullivan's first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace ( 1863 – 64 ) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs from the work, which were separately published.
Sullivan's most successful orchestral work, the Overture di Ballo, was composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1870.
But the latter work had only a few short runs, and for the next 15 years, Sullivan's sole operatic collaborator was Gilbert ; the two created an additional 12 operas together.
Gilbert was surprised to hear of Sullivan's hesitation and had started work on a new opera involving a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge.
" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The work that opened the new theatre was Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience, which been running since April 1881 at the smaller Opera Comique.
Pat Sullivan's work
The reviewer for the Sunday Times wrote that the score of Ida was " the best in every way that Sir Arthur Sullivan has produced, apart from his serious works .... Humour is almost as strong a point with Sir Arthur ... as with his clever collaborator ...." The humour of the piece also drew the comment that Gilbert and Sullivan's work " has the great merit of putting everyone in a good temper.
" The praise for Sullivan's effort was unanimous, though Gilbert's work received some mixed notices.
" Gilbert was surprised to hear of Sullivan's hesitation and had started work on a new opera involving a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge – a plot that Sullivan had previously rejected.
O ' Sullivan's work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Beuys, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting.
* Richardson's great admirer Louis Sullivan adapted Richardson's characteristic lessons of texture, massing, and the expressive language of stone walling, particularly at Chicago's Auditorium Building, and these influences are detectable in the work of Sullivan's own student Frank Lloyd Wright.
In Sullivan's autograph score for the later work, the first part of " Climbing over rocky mountain " is actually taken from a Thespis copyist score, with the Thespis words cancelled and the new words written in, which raises the question of why Sullivan had a Thespis score to hand, if not for that purpose.
Of Gilbert's work in the opera, Isaac Goldberg opined, " the old self-censorship has relaxed ", and of Sullivan's he concludes, " his grip upon the text was relaxing ; he pays less attention to the words, setting them with less regard than formerly to their natural rhythms ".
Sullivan's work on interpersonal relationships became the foundation of interpersonal psychoanalysis, a school of psychoanalytic theory and treatment that stresses the detailed exploration of the nuances of patients ' patterns of interacting with others.
Examples of Sullivan's work include:
Although influenced by Wright, Sullivan's work diverged from Wright's in certain important ways.
Nickel encountered Sullivan's work while photographing the architect's buildings for a school project at the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago under Aaron Siskind.
He died without completing his publication containing a great collection of photographs of Sullivan's work, but Nickel's black-and-white photos have been displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago and elsewhere.
In fact, Sullivan's fascination with his friends ' crossdressing was to become a leitmotif of his work.

Sullivan's and 1860s
English-language operettas were first composed in England in the 1860s — for example, Arthur Sullivan's Cox and Box ( 1866 ).
O ' Sullivan's father had been a devout Catholic, and O ' Sullivan himself was politically associated with the Catholics in New York City, but there is no evidence that he was a practicing Catholic before the 1860s, and then the evidence is unclear.
After the Shubenacadie Canal was largely abandoned in the 1860s due to unsustainable competition from the Nova Scotia Railway, Sullivan's Pond fell into disrepair and homes gradually began to surround the pond.

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