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This week, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Benefactor Verdi's guests will pay their special respects to his memory. Wearing the simple costume Verdi prescribed for them-the men, black suits, string ties and soft wide-brimmed hats, the women, plain, dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...
...precise circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter of Wagner's old friend and benefactor Franz Liszt, became Richard Wagner's second wife, died...
Final selection of architect and architectural style will rest, with the center's benefactor, who will also receive a permanent suite in the building. A tentative model shows a "Georgian" building constructed around three sides of a rectangular courtyard...
Until that time, no one had ever heard of a society giving degrees. The next move was to make the Annex a college. This happened in 1894. The Massachusetts General Court approved a charter for Radcliffe College, named after Ann Radcliffe, Harvard's first woman benefactor. This charter contained a provision that it could award no degrees "except with the approval of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...house the students of the newest college, Oxford authorities had acquired a small group of buildings once used as an Anglican convent. These they renamed St. Antony's, in honor of Benefactor Antonin Besse. Then they began laying plans for the curriculum which St. Anthony's students would follow...