Newman, Ernest (1868) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
..., Ernest ( Roberts, William ) ( b Everton, Lancs , 1868 ; d Tadworth , 1959 ) English music critic and author . Began career as bank employee 1889–1904 , writing on economics and music. Wrote first book, Gluck and the Opera , in 1895 and A Study of Wagner in 1899 . On staff Birmingham Midland Institute of Music 1903–5 . Music critic Manchester Guardian 1905–6 , Birmingham Post 1906–19 , Observer 1919–20 , Sunday Times 1920–58 . Authority on Wagner, of whom he wrote 4‐vol. biography ( 1928–47 ) in addition to Wagner as Man...
Newman, Ernest Robert William (1868–1959) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
..., Ernest Robert William ( 1868–1959 ) Ernest Newman was born in Everton, Lancashire on 30 November 1868 and died in Tadworth, Surrey on 7 July 1959 . He was educated at University College, Liverpool before spending fourteen years as a bank clerk. Granville Bantock, Principal of the Midland Institute, Birmingham, appointed him to teach musical theory and he taught there until moving to Manchester as music critic of the Guardian in 1905 . He held a long series of positions with various newspapers including the Birmingham Daily Post , the Observer,...
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Raimondo Quick reference
A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.)
...1 ( Donizetti : Lucia di Lammermoor ). See Bidebent, Raymond . 2 ( Wagner : Rienzi ). Cardinal, the Papal Legate who excommunicates Rienzi. Created ( 1842 ) by Gioachino Vestri . (In his Life of Richard Wagner , i, Ernest Newman describes how, during a break in rehearsals, the cast went out for lunch, leaving Wagner sitting on the stage. He was unable to join them, as he had no money, but did not want anyone to realize this. Vestri, however, must have had an idea of the position, for he came back and brought Wagner a piece of bread and a glass of...
incompleteness Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
... P is a decidable class, then T is incomplete. The incompleteness theorem came as a nasty shock to mathematicians influenced by Hilbert's programme, for whom mathematical truth consisted in demonstrability. J.W. See also completeness ; Gödel's theorem . Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman , Gödel's Proof (New York,...
Olszewska, Maria Reference library
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The Grove Book of Opera Singers (2 ed.)
...Orlofsky ( Die Fledermaus ) and Herodias ( Salome ) drew the highest critical acclaim. Her Carmen and Amneris were less successful. She sang in Chicago ( 1928–32 ) and at the Metropolitan ( 1933–5 ). Olszewska possessed a rich, beautiful voice and great dramatic temperament; Ernest Newman wrote that ‘she makes us feel for the moment that the whole drama centres in her’. She made a number of recordings, including the role of Octavian in the renowned 1933 abridged version of Der Rosenkavalier . She married the baritone Emil Schipper . H. M. Barnes : ‘ Maria...
