John Quincy Adams
Billy Budd Quick reference
The Grove Book of Operas (2 ed.)
...the Novice, with great reluctance, agrees. Waking Billy, the Novice tries to tempt him with money (provided by Claggart) into leading a gang of dissidents who are plotting mutiny. Billy is initially attracted by the gold, but when he realizes what it is for he grows angry, his stammer starts up, and the Novice runs off. Dansker appears and helps Billy calm down. Billy tells him of the mutiny plan and his resistance to it. Dansker warns him that Claggart is hostile to him, but Billy refuses to believe it. The two men sing together: Billy is enraptured at the...
Holdridge, Lee (3 March 1944) Reference library
Warren M. Sherk
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...(ABC miniseries), 1981 ; Moonlighting (ABC series theme), 1985 ; Beauty and the Beast (CBS series theme), 1989 ; Do You Know the Muffin Man? (CBS movie), 1990 ; Call of the Wild (CBS movie), 1993 ; Buffalo Girls (CBS movie), 1995 ; Tuskegee Airmen (HBO miniseries), 1996 ; Mutiny (NBC movie), 1999 ; The Mists of Avalon (TNT movie), 2002 ; Saving Milly (CBS movie), 2005 Concert music “Summerland,” from the ballet Trinity (2d mvt), for orch, choir, rock ens, 1970 ; Scenes of Summer, sym suite, 1973 ; Serenade for ob and str, 1973 ; Conc. for vn and...
Ulisse Quick reference
The Grove Book of Operas (2 ed.)
...no longer and breaks down. The King, noticing his tears, asks his name. Ulysses identifies himself, and agrees to tell them his story. The scene immediately dissolves, revealing (scene ii) Ulysses’ ship about to drop anchor off the island of the Lotus‐eaters. His crew are near to mutiny, but they agree to beach the ship when they hear the sound of the Lotus‐eaters in the distance. The islanders then appear, drugged into euphoric lassitude through eating the blossoms and fruits of the lotus. They offer these to Ulysses’ crew, some of whom, despite his...
Steiner, Max(imilian Raoul Walter) (10 May 1888) Reference library
Kate Daubney
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
...with Father, 1947 ; Johnny Belinda, 1948 ; Key Largo, 1948 ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 ; Adventures of Don Juan, 1949 ; The Fountainhead, 1949 ; The Glass Menagerie, 1950 ; Operation Pacific, 1951 ; The Jazz Singer, 1953 ; This is Cinerama, 1953 ; The Caine Mutiny, 1954 ; King Richard and the Crusaders, 1954 ; Come Next Spring, 1955 ; Helen of Troy, 1956 ; The Searchers, 1956 ; A Summer Place, 1959 ; The FBI Story, 1959 ; John Paul Jones, 1959 ; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, 1960 ; The Sins of Rachel Cade, 1961 ; Rome...
Lansbury Angela Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...The Hoodlum Saint (1946). The Harvey Girls (1946). If Winter Comes (1947). The Private Affairs Of Bel Ami (1947). Tenth Avenue Angel (1948). State Of The Union (1948). The Three Musketeers (1948). The Red Danube (1949). Samson And Delilah (1949). Kind Lady (1951). Mutiny (1952). Remains To Be Seen (1952). A Life At Stake (1954). The Key Man (1955). The Purple Mask (1955). Please Murder Me (1956). The Court Jester (1956). The Reluctant Debutante (1958). The Long Hot Summer (1958). Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll (1959). The Dark At The...
López Israel 'Cachao' Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...meaning ‘lively with joy’). Between 1934 and 1936 he worked with Ernesto Muñoz, Antonio Maria Cruz and Orquesta Antillana. In 1937, López joined La Maravilla Del Siglo, a flute, strings and rhythm section band led by singer Fernando Collazo. The following year, the musicians mutinied after a row with Collazo and formed themselves into a co-operative directed by Antonio Arcaño Betancourt, which became known as Arcaño Y Sus Maravillas. Besides Cachao and Arcaño, membership of the band included Cachao’s brother Orestes López (b. 29 August 1908, Havana, Cuba;...
