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6 unusual facts about Arion


Alec Roth

He is best known for his collaboration with Vikram Seth to produce the opera Arion and the Dolphin in 1994 based on the myth of Arion.

Arion

In 1994, it was adapted by Vikram Seth and Alec Roth for the opera Arion and the Dolphin (aka "The Dolphin Opera"), commissioned by the English National Opera for professional performers with community chorus and children's chorus.

Arion-Edo Foundation

Thought up in 1985 by Kyoko Edo (pianist), Maki Ishii (composer) and Tashi Funayama (musicologist), they joined hands to plan a truly international music festival in Tokyo at a time when there was no such event in Japan.

Kyoko Edo

Kyoko Edo is a pianist, artistic director, and president of the Arion-Edo Foundation.

She founded the Arion-Edo Foundation in 1985, of which she has been president ever since its inception.

Besides her activities for the Arion-Edo Foundation, Ms. Edo’s activities also include the artistic direction of the Amber Hall in Kuji and the musical direction of the Phoenix Hall in Osaka.


Anton I. Arion

Anton I. Arion (1824 - 1897) was a Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Interior from August 12, 1868 until November 16, 1868.

Arion alpinus

Arion alpinus auct. non Pollonera, 1887, a newly reinstated name by Manganelli et al. (2010) is Arion obesoductus Reischütz, 1973

Boyer River

In southern Sac County it turns southwestward and flows through Crawford, Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties, past the towns of Deloit, Denison, Arion, Dow City, Dunlap, Woodbine, Logan and Missouri Valley.

Camper and Nicholsons

Purchased by Aristotle Onassis from war surplus, she was refitted and renamed Arion and presented as a wedding present to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco when he married actress Grace Kelly.

Nama band

After seven albums and two times awarded for best pop group in Greece by the Arion music awardsIFPI Greece 2002 and 2006, they record their last album on winter 2008.

Richard Diebenkorn

In 1990, Diebenkorn produced a series of six etchings for the Arion Press edition of "Poems of W. B. Yeats", with poems selected and introduced by Helen Vendler.

Valeri Brainin


literary magazines "Znamya" (Moscow), "Novy Mir" (Moscow), "Arion" (Moscow), "Ogoniok" (Moscow), "Grani" (Frankfurt-am-Main), "Dvadtsat dva" (Jerusalem), "Kreshchatik" (Kiev), anthologies "Verses of the Century" (Moscow, compiled by Yevgeny Yevtushenko) and "Verses of the Century-2" (Moscow, compiled by Eugen V. Witkowsky).


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