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unusual facts about Pickard


Angels We Have Heard on High

The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.


Andreas Boyde

The pianist gave the European première of Paul Schoenfield’s Piano Concerto Four Parables, as well as the first performance of John Pickard’s Piano Concerto, which is dedicated to him.

Clyde Apperson

Allegedly Pickard and Apperson previously manufactured LSD in Oregon, in Aspen, Colorado, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Ellsworth, Kansas.

Cory Band

They have an active commissioning policy and have performed works by many of Britain’s leading composers; John McCabe, Judith Bingham, Elgar Howarth, Edward Gregson, Alun Hoddinott, Karl Jenkins, Gareth Wood, David Bedford, as well as John Pickard.

John Pickard’s tenure with the band ended in July 2005 when the band made history giving the première performance of his Gaia Symphony at the prestigious Cheltenham International Festival.

Cum sole

The term is sometimes used in meteorology and physical oceanography to refer to anticyclonic motion, which is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (but with the sun's apparent motion when facing Equator in both hemispheres) (Pond and Pickard, 1983).

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was named after his great-uncle, the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).

Nigel Pickard

In 1982 Pickard became a senior programme director of the children’s department at the newly formed TVS, where his work included No73.

Thomas J. Pickard

On June 25, 2001, Pickard was appointed Acting Director of the FBI by Attorney General John Ashcroft.


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