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Brewer's: Carillons

in France, are chimes or tunes played on bells; but in England the suites of bells that play the tunes. Our word carol approaches the French meaning nearer than our own. The best chimes in…

1995 Tony Awards

PlayLove! Valour! Compassion!MusicalSunset BoulevardRevival—PlayThe HeiressRevival—MusicalShow BoatActor—PlayRalph Fiennes, HamletActress—PlayCherry Jones, The HeiressMatthew Broderick, How…

Figure Skating–Women

1908 Madge Syers, Britain1920 Magda Julin-Mauroy, Sweden1924 Herma Planck-Szabö, Austria1928 Sonja Henie, Norway1932 Sonja Henie, Norway1936 Sonja Henie, Norway1948 Barbara Ann Scott,…

Walt Whitman: Song at Sunset

Song at SunsetSplendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I…

Brewer's: Music of the Spheres

Pythagoras was the first who suggested the notion so beautifully expressed by Shakespeare- There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings, Still…

Brewer's: Owl in an Ivy Bush

(Like an). Very ugly, a horrible fright [of a fellow]. Said of (or to) a person who has dressed his head unbecomingly, or that has a scared look, an untidy head of hair, or that looks…

2001 Gramophone Awards

Record of the Year and Orchestral Vaughan Williams, A London Symphonyand Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, London Symphony…

Weather: Camille

CamilleWeatherBlowing Cold and Hot: The Big OnesWinter Gone SouthBig-City SnowsStorm of the Century?The Greatest One of AllModern Winter of Deep SnowsGalveston Storm SurgeThe Great New England…