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Ogdon's "shy bear" image helps camouflage an intense inner life, great dedication, intellect and sweeping ambition. Ogdon, in fact, is bidding hard to join a select though all but vanished company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bart...
...Mather. "We made every effort to avoid taking a political stance as a House committee on the issue of the CRR," Ducklow said. "We were trying to be merely administrators and allow students themselves to decide the fate of the CRR representatives for Mather rather than let a select few [the 11-man panel] decide for them...
Under the new selection procedure, each House, the freshmen, and three graduate groups, are allowed to form one eleven-man committee. From all nominations, the chairman of the CRR will select four...
...taxes, and do not have to report to shareholders. In addition, they have access to some of the best investment information because leading bankers and brokers yearn for the prestige of landing a Vatican account and send in all sorts of advice. The church also solicits advice through a select group that includes Morgan Guaranty Trust and Hambros Bank...
...Dutch Catholics were both more loyal and less progressive than their vocal clergy and hierarchy, and Paul was apparently determined that those Catholics should be represented in the Dutch episcopate. When the list from the Rotterdam chapter failed to include such a man, Paul simply reached beyond it to select Simonis...