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Purcell

[ US /pɝˈsɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)

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  • They had a third alternative in Joe Purcell, a decent, low-key man who had been attorney general and lieutenant governor and done a good job with both positions.
  • Using western classical music that included the Lament from Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, as well as songs about death by Schubert and Canteloube, she performed a solo that was a stunning metaphor for pain and release. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Courtenay Purcell came in on keyboards, Jake Gladman on bass, and Mike Roberts completed the rhythm section on drums.
  • And some investors, who believe Purcell will keep the firm's retail brokerage and credit-card operations, want to own the stock anyway as merger activity picks up.
  • Fiona Nolan had an excellent game down the left wing with Karen Purcell and McGlinchey getting several shots on goal, but not scoring.
  • Purcell MK, Smith KD, Aderem A, Hood L, Winton JR, et al. (2006) Conservation of Toll-like receptor signaling pathways in teleost fish. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • I first encountered Raymond Leppard as the brilliant harpsichordist in Barbirolli's recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
  • Nevertheless, in some of the ‘Gloria’ sections of his canticles Purcell indulges in ingenious canonic writing, inspired it seems by earlier examples by Child and Blow.
  • Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
  • A four-part July series of Purcell Room concerts acclaiming very different pioneers of British jazz and improvisation including Soweto Kinch, the Jazz Warriors and the late Sir John Dankworth appropriately begins with the most uncompromisingly radical of musical adventurers – the improv saxophone innovator Evan Parker. This week's new live music
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