Pavlova rose through the ranks quickly, becoming a favorite of the old maestro Petipa.

Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who maintained a household there ; and in 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the ecumenical mother church of Rome and a spectacularly prestigious post indeed for a man only twenty-one years old.

He moved to Bergamo in 1802 and was appointed maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Bergamo, succeeding his old teacher Lenzi.

I have heard an old maestro of the guitar say, ' The duende is not in the throat ; the duende climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet.

He was appointed the new chapel master in 1575, where his old friend Lázaro del Álamo had been maestro de capilla from 1556 to 1570.

The Guardian carried a laudatory review in its issue of November 10, 1967 by Francis Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) who said, " The old maestrina of the crime-novel ( or whatever is the female of ' maestro ') pulls yet another out of her inexhaustible bag with Endless Night, quite different in tone from her usual work.

Other productions include: Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre ( staged Petipa ), with Praskovia Lebedeva as Aspicia, Moscow, 29 November ( old style 17 November ) 1864 ; Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre ( staged Aleksander Gorsky after Petipa ), with Vasily Tikhomirov as the English Tourist ( Taor / Lord Wilson ) and Enrichetta Grimaldi as Vint-Anta ( Aspicia ), Moscow, 27 November 1905 ; a new production by Pierre Lacotte for the Bolshoi Ballet in 2000, which included only three reconstructed dances from Petipa's original choreography for the Grand Pas d ' action of Act II.

On the twenty-nine year old Petipa arrived in the imperial capital.

Choreography was a logical alternative to dancing for the now 41 year old Petipa, who was soon to retire from the stage.

On the near eighty year old Petipa presented one of his greatest ballets, Raymonda, set in Hungary during the middle ages to the music of Alexander Glazunov, which premiered to great success.

Petipa noted his final composition on 17 January 1905 in his diraies: a variation to the music of Cesare Pugni for the Prima ballerina Olga Preobrajenskaya from the old ballet La Danseuse en voyage.

Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova ( pronounced vah-GAH-naw-vah ) () ( July 6, 1879-November 5, 1951 ) was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method-the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School ( today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet ) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.

The old Maestro Petipa cared little for Vaganova as a dancer — any mention of her performances in his diaries were usually followed by such comments as " awful " or " dreadful ".

Gerdt studied under Alexander Pimenov, a pupil of the legendary Charles Didelot, and with Jean Petipa, Marius Petipa's father, a master of the old pantomime and a student of Auguste Vestris.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.

Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

She did suddenly, through the link of memory with his father, old Titus, who must have been in his nineties when Henrietta ran away.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

But she did not move, taking the words and the sticks in that old defiance of her extreme youth until suddenly Pile of Clouds came howling among them, swinging a great bullhide whip.

This did little to diminish the status of the Darnley urn as the most important icon in cricket, the symbol of this old and keenly fought contest.

St. James's Church was built in 1763, replacing the old chapel however it did not achieve parochial status until as late as 1870.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.

The old placoderms did not have teeth at all, but had sharp bony plates in their mouth.

Yet, at first, Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

By all accounts, Mucianus held the real power in Vespasian's absence and he was careful to ensure that Domitian, still only eighteen years old, did not overstep the boundaries of his function.

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

The total privatization of the pension system has implied a serious burden for the public finances, because the newly created private Pension Association Funds did not absorb coverage of retired pensioners covered in the old system.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

A Homo fossil was found near some Oldowan tools, and its age was noted at 2. 3 million years old, suggesting that maybe the Homo species did indeed create and use these tools.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

Peter signed his consent for 19-year old John " Weissmuller "' s passport application in 1924, preceding Johnny's Olympic competition in France.

Paul thus sees it as a problem of evil, because this means, throughout human history, over 50 billion people died naturally before they were old enough to give mature consent.

With the consent of the Frankish ruler, Pippin of Herstal, he settled in an old Roman fort in Utrecht.

The Act tightened up the requirements for marrying in England and Wales but did not apply in Scotland, where it was possible for boys to marry at 14 and girls at 12 years old with or without parental consent ( see Marriage in Scotland ).

Since 1929 both parties in Scotland have had to be at least 16 years old, but they still may marry without parental consent.

A conflict with his stepmother when he was about 14 years old drove Wilfrid to leave home, probably without his father's consent.

1n 1971, without the full band's knowledge or consent SGC released Nazz III, in which most of Rundgren's vocals from the old ' Fungo Bat ' tapes were replaced by Stewkey.

They charged him with perjury based on his claiming the throne instead of just his old lands and titles ; his taxing the clergy despite having promised not to without the consent of Parliament ; imprisoning and murdering King Richard II, and not permitting a free Parliamentary election and refusing to pay a just ransom, requested by Owain Glyndŵr, who was then holding Edmund Mortimer.

Minimum age for paintball is 14 years old with parents consent, from 16 and up no parental consent is required.

The old man had been in Leiden in his youth, and admired the scholarship of the Netherlands ; so his consent was easily won.

The next few years were marked by protracted legal procedures before the assets of the old company could be transferred and before final consent to rebuild the railway was given.

Thus, without the previous consent of the estates, no new law could be imposed, no old law abolished, no offensive war undertaken, no extraordinary war subsidy levied.

campaign to reduce the age of consent to 14 to adjust for studies that showed nearly half of all young people — gay and straight — had their first sexual experiences prior to 16 years old and to counter them from being " treated as criminals by the law ".

Technically, the couple had to be old enough to consent, but the age of consent was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, though in practice boys seem to have been on average five years older.

The ferry was old and somewhat dangerous, and in 1766 Spencer formed the Battersea Bridge Company and sought and obtained Parliamentary consent to build " a fine stone bridge " across the Thames.

Gretna's principal claim to fame arose in 1753 when an Act of Parliament, Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, was passed in England, which provided, among other things, that if both parties to a marriage were not at least 21 years old, consent to the marriage had to be given by the parents.

After attending Our Lady Help of Christians School in Tottenville, Zappalorti attended Tottenville High School, but dropped out before graduating in order to enlist in the United States Navy, which he entered on November 27, 1962 ; his mother signed the parental consent form ( necessary because he was not yet 18 years old ) after his father refused to do so.

" " Child " was sometimes defined, not biologically, but as underaged or as a minor under the legal age of consent, which in some states of the USA is 18 years old.

Persons 18 years old or older are above the legal Age of consent in all states of the USA, and thus are not " children " even in the loosest definition of the term.

Frequently injured during his spell with the Lions and vastly underperforming, the 33-year old rescinded his contract by mutual consent on 6 July 2011.

On 15 February 1792 Honoré Muraire, reporting for the Legislative Committee, presented a series of recommendations on marriage reform, including the implementation of registers of civil status ( replacing registers maintained by the clergy ), and allowing young people the age of twenty-one years old to marry without the consent of their parents.

Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats, and age of consent has been raised to eight years old.

** Any surgery not absolutely necessary for physical health should be postponed until the person is old enough to give informed consent ; parents should not be empowered to make medical decisions for their children.