Burmester was so offended that he refused ever to play the concerto, and Sibelius re-dedicated it to the Hungarian " wunderkind " Ferenc von Vecsey.

Burmester was so offended that he refused ever to play the concerto, and Sibelius re-dedicated it to the Hungarian " wunderkind " Ferenc von Vecsey, who was aged only 12 at the time.

George Vecsey, in The New York Times wrote: " Roger Connor was a complete player — a deft first baseman and an agile base runner who hit 233 triples and stole 244 bases despite his size ( 6 feet 3 inches and 200 pounds ).

New York Times columnist George Vecsey wrote that Franklin was a " so-called big name ... whose specialty was hurling insults at fans who knew vastly more than he did.

His book Five O ' Clock Comes Early: A Cy Young Award-Winner Recounts His Greatest Victory was co-written with New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey and chronicles Welch's battle with alcoholism.

Sheppard was deeply religious, "... as strong in his Roman Catholic faith as anybody I knew ," wrote his longtime friend, George Vecsey.

Vecsey noted that during the course of his professional dealings with Richardson, he found the player to be " so unsettled, so unsophisticated and so pliable anybody could draw him into saying anything about anything at any time ".

In 1976, she released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help of writer George Vecsey.

In 1985, Navratilova released an autobiography, co-written with The New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey, titled Martina in the U. S. and Being Myself in the rest of the world.

Peter Vecsey questioned the Times Union's motives in not releasing the audio recording of their exchange with Richardson.

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Four Austrian generals were killed or mortally wounded during the fighting, Armand von Nordmann, Josef Philipp Vukassovich, Peter Vecsey, and Konstantin Ghilian Karl d ' Aspré.

A number of violinists from Hungary have also achieved international renown, especially Joseph Joachim, Jenő Hubay, Edward Reményi, Sándor Végh, Franz von Vecsey, Ede Zathureczky, Emil Telmányi and Leopold Auer.

George Vecsey of The New York Times described his voice as " a bizarre mixture of Dr. Michael Bird, Archie Bunker and Daffy Duck.

* Vecsey, George.

* George Vecsey and George C. Dade ; Getting off the Ground

* Vecsey, George.

George Vecsey of The New York Times once described Russo's voice as " a bizarre mixture of Jerry Lewis, Archie Bunker and Daffy Duck.

Its first president was Jean Sibelius, whose music Bantock championed during the early years of the century.

The concerto was later championed by David Oistrakh.

This theory was first proposed in 1930 and has recently been championed by Stephen Greenblatt.

The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.

She championed recreational drug prevention causes by founding the " Just Say No " drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as first lady.

The first attempt at mathematical rigour in the field of probability, championed by Pierre-Simon Laplace, is now known as the classical definition.

Venezuela worked closely with its neighbors following the 1997 Summit of the Americas in many areas — particularly energy integration — and championed the OAS decision to adopt the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, also being among the first to ratify it ( in 1997 ).

" This explanation was widely accepted when it was championed by Bruckner scholar Robert Haas, who was the chief editor of the first critical editions of Bruckner's works published by the International Bruckner Society ; it continues to be found in the majority of program notes and biographical sketches concerning Bruckner.

She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

Establishment of the Bank was included in a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power ( along with a federal mint and excise taxes ) championed by Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury.

At the first conference in Europe of teachers of the blind in 1873, the cause of braille was championed by Dr. Thomas Rhodes Armitage and thereafter its international use increased rapidly.

The first statewide federated labor body was the Mechanics ' State Council that championed the eight-hour day against the employers ' 1867 " Ten Hour League ".

However, the original version as written by Dvořák has been championed by conductor Denis Vaughan, who performed it for the first time on 17 May 2005 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

( Later in life Cui championed the music of this late colleague of his, to the point of making the first completion of Mussorgsky's unfinished opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi.

While the term magical realism in its modern sense first appeared in 1955, the German art critic Franz Roh first used the phrase in 1925, to refer to a painterly style also known as Neue Sachlichkeit ( the New Objectivity ), an alternative championed by fellow German museum director Gustav Hartlaub.

Messiaen's music was by this time championed by, among others, Pierre Boulez, who programmed first performances at his Domaine musical concerts and the Donaueschingen festival.

As it became clear that Finland would be a republic, Stålberg also championed direct election of the President of Finland, but the Council of State chose the electoral college system, although the first President would be elected by Parliament.

Many members of the family had enjoyed successful political careers based on reform, including to colonial policies ; Grey's grandfather, while prime minister, championed the Reform Act 1832 and in 1846, Grey's uncle, the third Earl Grey, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the first ministry of the Earl Russell, was the first to suggest that colonies should be self-sustaining and governed for the benefit of their inhabitants, instead of for the benefit of the United Kingdom .< ref name = GG >

In the first instance, though, the King's anger at Cromwell for recommending Anne to him ( a move Cromwell thought would move England closer to the Protestant German princes, whose cause he championed ) cost Cromwell his head.

Yet a number of composers born in the 1950s and later have made some impact, notably Leonid Desyatnikov who became the first composer in decades to have a new opera commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre ( Rosenthal's Children, 2005 ), and whose music has been championed by Gidon Kremer and Roman Mints.

As governor, La Follette championed numerous progressive reforms, including the first workers ' compensation system, railroad rate reform, direct legislation, municipal home rule, open government, the minimum wage, non-partisan elections, the open primary system, direct election of U. S. Senators, women's suffrage, and progressive taxation.

At first he was associated mainly with bubblegum and mainstream pop, but he later championed soul music.

Among many initiatives in the early years of AOL, Case personally championed many innovative online interactive titles and games, including graphical chat environments Habitat ( 1986 ) and Club Caribe ( 1989 ), the first online interactive fiction series QuantumLink Serial by Tracy Reed ( 1988 ), Quantum Space, the first fully automated Play by email game ( 1989 ), and the original Dungeons & Dragons title Neverwinter Nights, the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ( MMORPG ) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text ( 1991 ).