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5 unusual facts about Purcell


Brent Ridge

Together with his partner Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Ridge bought in 2007 a 19th Century farm, Beekman Mansion, located in Sharon Springs, New York.

Helen Lawson

Lawson has made another fictional appearance since in the newly published novel Candy Everybody Wants (2008) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, where she acts as a mentor to the protagonist Jayson Blocher as he is starting his career in Hollywood as a 15-year-old.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

On March 10, 2010, Bravo television network announced a development deal with Darren Star to produce I Am Not Myself These Days as a scripted television series based on Kilmer-Purcell's bestselling memoir of the same name.

Purcell, Oklahoma

The bridge, among the longest in Oklahoma, is named for James C. Nance, a newspaper publisher and legislative leader in Oklahoma and U.S. Uniform Law Commissioner.

The territorial courthouse was established under the Nonintercourse Act.


Alberto Guerrero

While he shifted his focus to piano technique and pedagogy, he expanded his performing repertory to include works from Purcell through Les Six.

Amir Hosseinpour

His grandfather also founded the Philarmonic Orchestra of Persia, bringing the music of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Purcell to Persia.

Anne Sharp

At the Royal Opera House, Sharp sang in the chorus in the first post-war production, Purcell's The Fairy Queen, then in the 1947 productions of Bizet's Carmen, Massenet's Manon and Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Caroline Stam

On the opera stage she appeared as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Clarijn in Der Spiegel von Venedig of Hendrik Andriessen, Ninfa in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Dorinda in Handel's Orlando and Hélène in Chabrier's Une éducation manquée.

Catherine Bott

She has recorded extensively, for example as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1994), with the choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion, as Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Philip Pickett, and in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Charles and Grace Parker House

Architecture critic Larry Millett calls it one of Purcell and Elmslie's greatest houses, citing the broad gabled roof, the groupings of windows, the side porch, and the detail surrounding the entry.

Charles H. Purcell

When the commission finished its work, Purcell was appointed by Governor Jim Rolph as the Chief Engineer responsible for the design and construction of the bridge.

Chelypus

Chelypus barberi Purcell 1902 (=Chelypus macronyx Hewitt 1919) - Northern Cape, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zimbabwe and Zambia - "On some South African Arachnida belonging to the orders of Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Solifugae".

Clare Purcell

Between 1911 and 1918 Rev. Purcell served the following appointments: Madison Circuit, the Owenton Church (later renamed McCoy Memorial) in Birmingham, and First Methodist Church of Sylacauga.

Cromer Hospital

The hospital is being designed by architects Purcell Miller Tritton and a Swaffham-based Mansell team will undertake the construction work.

Dark metal

Many writers, including Ian Christe, music journalist Chuck Eddy, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Natalie J Purcell, Brian Reesman, Jeff Wagner, and Steven Wilson, find that there is a melancholy tone that distinguishes dark metal bands from their contemporaries.

Dillington House

Designed by Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Purcell Miller Tritton, the building won the 2010 South-West Region Architecture Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Edward Purcell

Teddy Purcell, Edward Purcell (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player

Glenn Kesby

Other opera roles have included Silvio in Handel's Il Pastor Fido (Harmonie Universelle), Cupid in John Blow's Venus and Adonis, Spirit in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Burghley Opera), Tolomeo in Julius Caesar, Arsamenes in Xerxes, Polinesso in Ariodante, and Venus in Pepusch's Venus and Adonis for the Handel House Museum.

Graeme Danby

European engagements include Brag in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona; Somnos (Semele) and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) with De Vlaamse Opera; and Xuthus in Pam Vir's Ion for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Graham B. Purcell, Jr.

Purcell was elected to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of fellow Democrat, Representative Frank N. Ikard.

Hayden Lake, Idaho

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

Heartland Flyer

Keynote speaker, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett addressed the crowd along with the mayors of Perry, Guthrie, and Purcell, Oklahoma, encouraging the state fund the service and to expand the train into Kansas.

Indre Viskontas

Viskontas has performed as a soprano for numerous roles, including Beth in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Kate in John Estacio’s Frobisher, Heart's Desire in Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia and Aurelia in Purcell's Dioclesian.

James N. Purcell, Jr.

In 1983, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Purcell as Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs and he held this office from June 12, 1983 to September 28, 1986.

Purcell worked in public affairs for his entire career, serving in every presidential administration from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan.

Jason Barry-Smith

Barry-Smith made his directorial debut at the 2001 4MBS Festival with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in which he also sang the role of Æneas; this production won him the Perform 4MBS Award for Opera Production.

Kerry William Purcell

Born in Cleethorpes, Purcell is a writer, design critic and historian.

Lost Adams Diggings

Purcell believes that the gold exists and is perhaps somewhere in the mountains just south of Quemado, New Mexico.

Magnormos

Other productions include an orchestral concert of Kevin Purcell and Victor Kazans 'Rebecca - the Musical', and workshops of new musicals 'Flowerchildren' (Peter Fitzpatrick) and 'Better Than Broadway' (Melvyn Morrow, David Mitchel, Ray Cook).

Millicent Silver

An important point in Millicent Silver's career came at the end of the war, when at Dartington Hall she was persuaded by the conductor Hans Oppenheim to play the continuo in a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas on a harpsichord.

Nancy Evans

In or before 1936 she took the part of Dido in the premiere recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Roy Henderson as Aeneas, under Boyd Neel.

New Age Vaudeville

Throughout its 4-year run, O'Donnell co-produced and wrote while McKenzie co-produced and directed numerous productions starring themselves and actors Megan Cavanagh, Todd Erickson, Bobby McGuire, Peter Neville, Michael Dempsey, Caroline Schless, Lisa Keefe, Tom Purcell (head writer, Colbert Report), and Del Close.

Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe

On 9 May 1691, a French convoy reached Limerick with General Charles St. Ruth, two lieutenant-generals, d'Usson and de Tessé, and Brigadier Luttrell and Colonel Purcell, and also a considerable quantity of arms, ammunition and supplies.

Poul Ruders

Ruders has composed a Concerto in Pieces (1995), which is a set of variations on the "Witches' Chorus" from Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas.

Purcell effect

The Purcell effect can also be useful for modeling single-photon sources for Quantum cryptography.

Purcell Operatic Society

Burden, Michael (2004) "Purcell's operas on Craig's stage: the productions of the Purcell Operatic Society", Early Music, Vol.

Purcell Room

The Purcell Room was built at the same time as the QEH, with which it shares a common foyer building and architectural features as an example of Brutalist architecture.

Robert Purcell

Purcell also served on a number of corporate boards and had a noted role in Bendix Corporation's 1982 attempt to acquire Martin Marietta.

Samuel Thomas Champnes

A former Westminster Chorister, probably owing to his maternal grandfather being John Weldon an apprentice to Purcell and a Royal Organist at St George's Chapel.

Sébastien d'Hérin

He founded his own ensemble les Nouveaux Caractères in 2006 with which he has led performances of operas including works of Purcell, Sisyphe amoureux d'Égine from Les Fêtes de Thétis by Colin de Blamont (second act Titon et l'Aurore by Bernard de Bury), and Philémon et Baucis by Haydn.

Solhi al-Wadi

In 1995 Solhi al-Wadi conducted the first-ever performance of an opera in Syria, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, which was performed at the ancient Roman amphitheaters of Bosra and Palmyra for huge crowds of enthusiastic listeners.

Tales from Ovid

In 2009, Fiona Shaw performed one of these tales, Echo and Narcissus, in the context of a Prologue to Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, directed by French conductor and harpsichordist William Christie.

The Faery Queen

The Fairy-Queen, 1692 music drama by Henry Purcell based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (and not on Spenser's poem)

The Winsford E-ACT Academy

The Academy has four houses which, as a Specialist Music School, are named after English composers, Britten, Purcell,Elgar and Sullivan.

Wu Qian

In 2001, she played a recital at the Purcell Room where her ambitious programme included Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies, two György Ligeti Études and Hafliði Hallgrímsson's Homage to Mondrian.


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