Word: boult
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DIED. Adrian Boult, 93, restrained, unhistrionic conductor who organized and led the BBC Symphony Orchestra, one of England's finest, from 1930 to 1950, then served as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that...
...reaction, hundreds of famous and distinguished Britons have petitioned the church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...