Word: consort
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...from the Te Deum and Jubilate, written for St. Cecilia's Day in 1694, to the funeral music for the burial of Queen Mary a year later, this is some of Purcell's-and England's-most eloquent music. The performances, authentically scored to include a consort of sackbuts (precursors of the trombone), display taste as well as a flair for the composer's bold, often harsh harmonic writing...
...much a part of the oppression to remove himself from it. Matthau's commentary as he watches the same dog take a leak on the same fire hydrant day after day is perhaps the high point of the film. Gena Rowlands is Douglas's consort, and is strong and convincing in a small role. Channel 3, unfortunately...
DUNSTER LIBRARY. The Aeolian Consort. Demonstration and concert of Renaissance music...
Cecil Woodham-Smith's Victoria is the first of two books. It takes the sovereign's life as far as the death of Albert, her prince consort, in 1861. The author had access to the Royal Family Archives at Windsor, and her rich effort at historical reconstruction is one of the finest biographies in English since George Painter's classic Marcel Proust. It is also an engrossing love story. Woodham-Smith is a historian, not a Crawfie. Her romance, moreover, is told without sentimentality and is set against the forbidding complexities of 19th century European politics...
...Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch to show him, as I knew it would distress & irritate...