They included works such as Haydn's Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' added by Donald Swann, an 'excerpt from Belshazzar's Feast, with full orchestra and chorus conducted by William Walton himself (with a fly swat), which turned out to consist of just a single chord with the word "Slain!", and humorous works specially commissioned from well-known composers of the day.
At Dalhousie, he was conductor of the Dalhousie Chorale and the Dalhousie Orchestra, and with the chorale gave performances of several large works including the St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach and Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton.
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Charles Jennens, Belshazzar: An oratorio, verse and music; performed in March; music by Handel
His death was hastened by madness induced by failure to complete a sculpture of Belshazzar at the moment of seeing the handwriting on the wall; he died in Danvers, Massachusetts.
During the 1884 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate James G. Blaine dined at a New York City restaurant with some wealthy business executives including "Commodore" Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, etc.
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The Austin, Texas band Sound Team references Belshazzar with the lyric: "But I don't have to sleep at Belshazzar's house anymore / Gave up the center line" on the track "No More Birthdays" off their Movie Monster LP.
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Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, liked to incorporate historical names into his pseudo-historical stories.
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Howard also used the name of 'Nabonidus' (father of Belshazzar) in the Conan tale "Rogues in the House" which appeared in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian #11.
She had a notable film roles as Inger in Ordet (1955) and, in later life, as Martina in Babette's Feast (1987), while on TV she played "Baroness von Rydtger" in three episodes of Matador.
She appeared in several of his productions including the role of Morgana in the world premier of Alcina (1735) and in the world premiers of the oratorios Alexander’s Feast (1736) and Saul (1739).
Clos de Vougeot 1845 was the featured wine in the film Babette's Feast, which is set in 1871.
Gabriel Axel (born 18 April 1918) is a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette's Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed.
St. Michael's feast is celebrated the Sunday before the 29 September by the Lija fireworks team.
Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar.
Although "art house," foreign and English language, films such as Babette's Feast and Adam's Apples, have been discussed in the Journal, scholars have also turned their attention to blockbuster films, such as Armageddon and Backdraft.
Her recent credits include Heston's Feast for chef Heston Blumenthal (winner of Royal Television Society Award for Best Features Programme in 2008), and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (winner of BAFTA for Best Features programme in both 2004 and 2007, an International Emmy for Best Non Scripted Entertainment Programme in 2006 and the Grierson Award for Most Entertaining Documentary also in 2006) plus long running food magazine series The F Word for chef, Gordon Ramsay.
In contrast to the previous book by Raymond P. Dougherty, Beaulieu's book downplays the role of Nabonidus' heterodox religious beliefs in causing his split rule with his son Belshazzar, instead highlighting political and economic factors.
In September 1931 his oratorio A Prophet in the Land Op. 21 was performed in Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival - the work was somewhat overshadowed by the splash made by William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast performed the same year.
The player can afford a ticket to the luxurious cruise spaceship Belshazzar.
Many of her works explore the liminality of certain phenomena including the practice of automatic writing (Sisters of Menon, 1972/79; Homage to Gertrude Stein, 2010), near death experiences (Clinic, 2004) and collective experiences of unconscious, subconscious and paranormal activity (Dream Mapping, 1974; Belshazzar's Feast, 1983-4; Dream Screens, 1996;
The events of the novel are mentioned in the collection Trimalcho's Feast in the short story "Death by Vespasian", which takes the form of a letter from Bato to the Emperor.
Yuri Kara became known in Russia with his movies Thieves within the Law (1988) and The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (1990), and with his conflict with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) which was caused by his film The Prize is a Trip into Space, based on the novel Cassandra's Brand written by the Russian author Chinghiz Aitmatov.