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51Le diable à quatre (opera) — Le diable à quatre ( The Devil to Pay ) is an opéra comique in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The French language libretto is by Michel Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after the ballad opera by Charles Coffey entitled The Devil to Pay …
52Patricia Lynch — (1898 ndash; 1972) was an Irish author of children s literature and journalist. She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy as in The Turf Cutter s Donkey .BiographyPatricia Lynch was born in Cork, Ireland and became the author of …
53Böhme, Jakob — born 1575, Altseidenberg, Saxony died Nov. 21, 1624, Görlitz German philosophical mystic. Originally a cobbler, Böhme had a religious experience in 1600 that he felt gave him insight into how the tensions of his age could be resolved. He… …
54Stalin, Joseph — orig. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili born Dec. 21, 1879, Gori, Georgia, Russian Empire died March 5, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet politician and dictator. The son of a cobbler, he studied at a seminary but was expelled for… …
55Sachs, Hans — (1494 1576) Playwright. Sachs is best known as a central character in Richard Wagner s opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, but his significance in the German theater derives from his prodigious output as a playwright and adaptor of… …
56performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
57HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization …
58art criticism — Description, interpretation, and evaluation of works of art, manifested in journal reviews, books, and patronage. Art criticism encompasses a wide variety of approaches, from critical commentary to more subjective emotional reactions inspired by… …
59CULTURAL LIFE — Introduction The movement for the return to Zion which emerged as a force at the end of the 19th century was based on a variety of motivations, including the political – the demand for an independent homeland where the Jews could forge their own… …
60Karlheinz Stockhausen — (22 August 1928 ndash; 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important (Barrett 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117) but also controversial (Power 1990, 30) composers… …
