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 Africa, empowering people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS, through medical care, social support and skills development. Articles emerged in the UK press in March and April 2008 stating that she was still training classically, considering a return to classical crossover. <mask> has sung in religious services in Taizé. She has also performed before Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales and Bill Clinton. In June 2008, she became pregnant with her son, Dexter Lloyd Henson. In an interview, she mentioned she would be ready to work on more music in a few months, although she was not sure whether she would further develop her career in classical, pop, or both, as she loved both genres for different reasons.<mask> also mentioned that she had been working with a vocal instructor to keep her voice in check, and while she had never put a focus on her body image, she would like to get back into pre-pregnancy shape before resuming work. In June 2009, <mask> was interviewed for Hello! magazine, and discussed her life since having her second child. She said that she was currently in the studio, resuming work on a new album and that her partner, Gavin Henson, had been strongly encouraging her to get back to work pursuing the career that she has greatly missed since settling down. 2010–2011: Return to music and Back to Scratch
<mask> appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 13 March 2010, where she confirmed that she had already begun writing and recording her sixth studio album. <mask> also stated that the album was of a different sound to previous ones, more mature with a "kooky" vibe. On 4 August 2010, <mask> made a new track, "Cold California", available to download from her website.<mask>'s new album, Back to Scratch, was released in the UK on 25 October 2010. The 14-track album was produced by Martin Terefe. Back to Scratch was preceded by a single – the LP's title track – on 24 October. "Back to Scratch" was originally inspired "by problems facing a family member",

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 but <mask> admitted in a press release that the song now has resonance to her own personal life following her split from Gavin Henson. Back to Scratch also featured the song "The Actors", which <mask> performed on BBC One talent contest Over the Rainbow, and a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River". It was announced on 13 March 2011 that <mask> had terminated her US$3 million deal with Power Amp Music over promotional disputes. Her spokesperson released the following statement: "All I can really say, because of the confidentiality issues, is that it was in Charlotte's financial interests to do so before the agreement entered the second year of its term.This is typical for these type of deals, which are investment deals rather than record deals. I can also say that the decision to terminate the term early, which suited both parties, was made well before the commercial release of the album". A spokesperson from the record label also released a statement saying "It didn't work out with <mask> and that's fair enough. There was no falling out. It was a mutual decision. They decided to exit the deal". The third single to be released from the album, "Snow" was released on 11 April 2011.Since 2012: ONE, TWO, THREE, and FOUR
On 26 May 2012, <mask> premiered three new songs "The Rise", "How Not to be Surprised When You're a Ghost", and "Say It's True" on BBC Radio with Bethan Elfyn. <mask> released her first EP ONE on 4 September 2012. On 19 December 2012, <mask> released the lead single from her second EP, "Glitterbombed" on The Line of Best Fit, an online music magazine. Her second EP TWO was released on 4 March 2013. ONE and TWO were combined for a US release on 12 March 2013. <mask> promoted ONE and TWO in the US with her first North American performances in almost a decade. She appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and at the South by Southwest Festival.Her costumes for her North American concerts were designed by Zoe Howerska. <mask> released the lead single from her third EP, "I Can Dream" via

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<mask> has made a number of cameo appearances on television. She appeared in the CBS series Touched by an Angel, appeared in the 1999 Christmas special of Heartbeat, and in 2002, 2003 and 2012 she appeared on episodes of Have I Got News for You (the first time as the show's youngest-ever panellist; the second time as host).In 2005, she played herself in an episode of The Catherine Tate Show, in a sketch with the fictional character Joannie Taylor. In 2008, she appeared briefly in a sketch in Katy Brand's Big Ass Show. In December 2005, for The Paul O'Grady Show Christmas pantomime, The Wizard of Oz, <mask> played Dorothy Gale. In the summer of 2006, <mask> began work on her own entertainment TV show, The Charlotte <mask> Show. After a pilot episode which caused some controversy and which was never released to the public, the series began on 1 September 2006 on Channel 4. <mask> won a British Comedy Award for "Best Female Comedy Newcomer" in 2006, and the 'Funniest TV Personality' award at the 2006 Loaded Magazine's 'LAFTA' awards. In 2008, she was nominated for the Rose d'Or Special Award for Best Entertainer.In late June 2008, Channel 4 began showing trials for the series. It has since concluded its eight-show run. A Christmas special aired on 21 December 2008. The show ended after its third series. In January 2010 for Hospital 24/7, <mask> made an appearance on the programme finale, where she visits the Children's Hospital for Wales to launch the Noah's Ark Appeals campaign to fund the equipment in the new Critical Care Unit, which will help children needing high dependency, or critical & intensive care. In 2014 <mask> performed as Mrs Ogmore Pritchard in a BBC adaptation of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. In 2018,

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 <mask> appeared in the BBC One documentary <mask>: Inside My Brain, in which she explores the subject of mental health and the various kinds of research being done in the field.In 2022, <mask> appeared as "Mushroom" on the third series of The Masked Singer and finished in second place. Writing
<mask> released an autobiography titled Voice of an Angel (My Life So Far) in October 2000, at 14. She released a second autobiography titled Keep Smiling in late 2007. In 2019, <mask> wrote numerous opinion pieces for The Guardian. Political activities
<mask> gave BBC 6 Music's John Peel Lecture at The Lowry in Salford in 2013, in which she criticised the music industry for what she described as a culture of sexism that pressures female artists to project a sexualised image of themselves. Following <mask>'s appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, she became increasingly outspoken on a number of political issues, which she has explained as growing out of her experience of Leveson as well as the Conservative victory in the 2015 general election. She is a member of media campaigning group Hacked Off.In May 2015 she joined a demonstration organised by the People's Assembly Against Austerity in Cardiff, subsequently addressing a crowd of 250,000 at a People's Assembly march in London the following month. At the 2015 Glastonbury Festival she chaired a conversation with two members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot. In August 2015 she performed the song "This Bitter Earth" outside the Shell Centre in London as part of a month-long protest organised by Greenpeace against Shell's pursuit of petroleum exploration in the Arctic. In September 2015, she endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, but by December 2015 she was calling for him to be replaced by a "fresh face" who was more electable. In 2016, <mask> along with numerous other celebrities, toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister, and in March 2016, performed at a socialist fundraising event in

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<mask>'s personal life and relationships have often been reported in UK tabloid newspapers, inspiring the song "Let's Be Alone" on her album Tissues and Issues. At age 15 she was criticised for remarks attributed to her by the New York Post in which she allegedly criticised "the hero status afforded to New York firefighters" in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks. She apologised for the remarks one month later, as well as at the Leveson Inquiry in 2011, stating that her comments were taken out of context. In a 2006 interview with Davina McCall, she agreed being diplomatic was "not in her nature". In November 2011, <mask> testified before the Leveson Inquiry about the media intrusion into her personal life stating "I've been made a caricature for so long, and this person portrayed in the tabloids really isn't me. It's not the person I am, and it's had a massive impact on my career.As an artist, I find it hard to be taken seriously because my credibility has been blown to bits." On 27 February 2012, <mask> accepted £600,000 in damages and costs in settlement of a lawsuit arising out of the News International phone hacking scandal. She had claimed that 33 stories about her that appeared in the News of the World were the product of illegal hacking into her family's voicemail. After the settlement was announced in open court she made a lengthy statement in which she said, "I have also discovered that despite the apology which the newspaper has just given in court, these people were prepared to go to any lengths to prevent me exposing their behaviour. They are not truly sorry. They are just sorry they got caught." The press devoted much attention to <mask>'s relationship with her

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Studio albums
 Voice of an Angel (1998)
 <mask> (1999)
 Dream a Dream (2000)
 Enchantment (2001)
 Tissues and Issues (2005)
 Back to Scratch (2010)

Television and film

Awards and nominations

See also
List of Welsh musicians

References

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 CharlotteChurchMusic.com – Official website
 Biography from BBC Wales

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Sheikh <mask>, also known as <mask>, , (born in Multan) (20 April 1954 – 3 June 2020) was a Pakistani politician who was affiliated with the Pakistan Muslim League. He was previously Member of National Assembly of Pakistan (MNA) (1993–1996, 1997–1999) and Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) (1990–1993). He was also the Central Vice-President of the Pakistan Muslim League. Family and education
He completed his initial education at Millat High School and then Government Emerson College in Multan and graduated from the University of Sindh, Jamshoro. <mask> hailed from a family that traces its roots to Jhajjar tehsil located in Rohtak district India. His grandfather, Sheikh Abdus Samad was assassinated while migrating to Pakistan at the time of the independence of Pakistan in 1947. <mask> and his family represent a community which has large business and political interests in the urban politics of Multan city.His father, Sheikh <mask>, was his political mentor; the former Member of Federal Parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) in 1980s nominated by General Zia-ul-Haq and elected Member of National Assembly of Pakistan (MNA), when elections were held on a non-party basis for the term 1985–1988. <mask> <mask> was married and has three sons, one daughter. The eldest son Muhammad Ahmad <mask> is currently studying abroad. His two other sons are Muhammad Ahsan Yousaf <mask> and Muhammad Asad Ali Asghar, who are currently studying in Multan. Political career
An agriculturist by profession turned to politics in 1987 as an elected councillor of Municipal Corporation Multan. He rose through the political ranks, being elected as a Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) for the

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 term of 1990–1993. He was elected to National Assembly of Pakistan serving two consecutive terms, the first from 1993 to 1996 and the second from February 1997 to October 1999.1990–1993
In 1990, he contested his first election for the post of Member of Provincial Assembly. He was given a ticket for constituency PP-163 in the remote area of Multan where he was an outsider and his opponent was Makhdoom Hassan Raza. <mask> <mask> managed to win the seat by a margin of 7,000 votes. For three years he served as an MPA but when Nawaz Sharif resigned along with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1993, assemblies were dissolved and new elections were scheduled. 1993
In November 1993, the new President Farooq Leghari called for fresh elections. <mask> <mask> was once again issued a ticket from Multan but this time, it was for National Assembly of Pakistan from constituency NA-116 where his opponent was Syed Tanveer-ul Hassan Gillani, a Former Federal Minister who is also a cousin of Ex Prime Minister Makhdoom Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. He was elected MNA on IJI ticket in 1990.In 1993, when the PML-N awarded ticket to <mask> <mask>, Gilani opted for the PPP ticket. 1997–1999
In 1997, new elections were called for again. <mask> <mask> was given Pakistan Muslim League ticket to contest the elections, from the same constituency NA-116. Again he was up against Syed Tanveer-ul-Hassan Gilani, who is a close relative of Ex Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and PML-N's Javed Hashmi. However, <mask> <mask> once again managed to defeat former federal ministers. During this time, Sheikh <mask> <mask> became a member of Parliamentary Steering Committee (PSC). The PSC was

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 created in response to UNDP's assistance to enhance the professional capacity of the parliamentarians and National Assembly Secretariat and to support other democratic processes.He was one of the members of parliament who was also interested in assistance regarding relations between the Parliament and the media and in making television coverage of Parliament more effective. In 1998, Sheikh <mask> <mask> was one of the foremost supporters of the decision taken by the government to develop nuclear weapons. 2002–2004
<mask> <mask> did not participate in the general elections held in 2002, choosing to run instead for Zila Nazim of Multan District in a by election held in 2003. 2005
<mask> <mask> was one of the few people in the PML N who was trying to convince the senior leadership of the PML N to stop supporting the PPP in the ARD as he believed the PPP was not sincere with PML-N and had been taking an advantage of the PML-N to achieve their own objectives and capture the PML-N vote bank. In August 2005, he decided to join the Pakistan Muslim League due to differences with the party policies and because his supporters were finding it difficult to adjust with the PPP in the ARD. <mask> <mask> was followed by Ex-Punjab Food Minister Hafiz Iqbal Khakwani, Ex-MNA Syed Javed Ali Shah, sitting MPA Syed Mujahid Ali Shah, PML-N Ex-MPA Khalid Khokhar and the son of Ex-MPA Sheikh Amir Khalil to join PML. 2008 elections
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On 4 May 2011, Sheikh <mask> <mask> announced his separation from Pakistan Muslim League. 2012 by-elections
On 25 February 2012, Sheikh <mask> <mask> 's younger brother Sheikh Muhammad Tariq <mask> was

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<mask> (May 1, 1908 – June 10, 1992) was a professor of Mathematics, a writer on the history, philosophy, and teaching of mathematics, and also a popularizer of mathematical subjects. Education and career
<mask> was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn and resided in Jamaica, Queens. After graduating from Boys High School in Brooklyn, he studied mathematics at New York University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1930, a master's degree in 1932, and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1936. He continued at NYU as an instructor until 1942. During World War II, <mask> was posted to the Signal Corps (United States Army) stationed at Belmar, New Jersey. Designated a physicist, he worked in the engineering lab where radar was developed. After the war he continued investigating electromagnetism, and from 1946 to 1966 was director of the division for electromagnetic research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.<mask> resumed his mathematical teaching at NYU, becoming a full professor in 1952. He taught at New York University until 1975, and wrote many papers and more than a dozen books on various aspects of mathematics and particularly teaching of mathematics. He repeatedly stressed the need to teach the applications and usefulness of mathematics rather than expecting students to enjoy it for its own sake. Similarly, he urged that mathematical research concentrate on solving problems posed in other fields rather than building structures of interest only to other mathematicians. One can get a sense of <mask>'s views on teaching from the following:

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texts: new jargon. The book recapitulates the debates from Mathematics Teacher, with <mask> conceding some progress: He cites Howard Fehr of Columbia University who sought to unify the subject through its general concepts: sets, operations, mappings, relations, and structures in the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study. In 1977 <mask> turned to undergraduate university education; he took on the academic mathematics establishment with his Why the Professor Can't Teach: The Dilemma of University Education. <mask> argues that the onus on professors in the United States to conduct research misdirects the scholarly method that characterizes good teaching. He lauds scholarship as expressed by expository writing or reviews of original work of others.For scholarship he expects critical attitudes to topics, materials and methods. Among the rebuttals are those by D.T. Finkbeiner, Harry Pollard, and Peter Hilton. Pollard conceded, "The society in which learning is admired and pursued for its own sake has disappeared." The Hilton review was more direct: <mask> has "placed in the hand of enemies…[a] weapon". Having started in 1956 as an agitator for change in mathematics education, he became a critic of some trends. Skilled expositor that he was, editors frequently felt his expressions were best tempered with rebuttal.In considering what motivated <mask> to protest, consider Professor Meder’s opinion:I am wondering whether in point of fact, Professor <mask> really likes mathematics [...] I think that he is at heart a physicist, or perhaps a ‘natural philosopher’, not a mathematician, and that the reason he does not like the proposals for

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 orienting the secondary school college preparatory mathematics curriculum to the diverse needs of the twentieth century by making use of some concepts developed in mathematics in the last hundred years or so is not that this is bad mathematics, but that it minimizes the importance of physics. It might appear so, as <mask> recalls E. H. Moore’s recommendation to combine science and mathematics at the high school level. But closer reading shows <mask> calling mathematics a "part of man’s efforts to understand and master his world", and he sees that role in a broad spectrum of sciences. Critique of mathematics research
In Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (ch. XIII: "The Isolation of Mathematics"), <mask> deplored the way mathematics research was being conducted, complaining that often mathematicians, not willing to become acquainted with the (sometimes deep) context needed to solve applied problems in sciences, prefer to invent pure mathematics problems that are not necessarily of any consequence. <mask> also blamed the publish or perish academic culture for this state of affairs. Publications
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 Introduction to Mathematics (with Irvin W. Kay), Houghton Mifflin, 1937
 The Theory of Electromagnetic Waves (ed), Inter-science Publishers, 1951
 Mathematics in Western Culture, Oxford University Press,1953
 Mathematics and the Physical World, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1959
 Mathematics, A Cultural Approach, Addison-Wesley, 1962
 Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, Dover Publications, 1967
 Electromagnetic Theory and Geometrical Optics (with Irvin W. Kay), John Wiley and Sons, 1965
 Calculus, An intuitive and Physical Approach, John Wiley and Sons,

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 Mathematics for Liberal Arts, Addison-Wesley, 1967, (republished as Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, Dover Publications, Inc., 1985) ()
 Mathematics in the Modern World (ed), W. H. Freeman and Co., 1968
 Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972
 Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Mathematics, St. Martin's Press, 1973
 Why the Professor Can't Teach: Mathematics and the Dilemma of University Education, St. Martin's Press, 1977 ()
 Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, Oxford University Press, 1980 (); OUP Galaxy Books pb.reprint ()
 Mathematics: An Introduction to Its Spirit and Use; readings from Scientific American Mathematics in the Modern World; readings from Scientific American The Language of Shapes (with Abraham Wolf Crown)
 Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 1985 ()

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The Divine Life of Sri Sri <mask> Ji
From the time of creation of the universe and mankind, God has manifested in myriad forms. Sometimes He has incarnated as Sri Krishna, soothing those in agony, through his Bansuri. While, sometimes He has incarnated as Narsingh Devta, reaping apart the evil and establishing Dharma. And then again, He has incarnated, for millions of tormented souls, in form of our immensely worshipped, Sri Sri Guru Maharaj – Sri Sri <mask>. Sri Sri Guru Maharaj was born on Saturday, the 17th of December, 1904 at Midnapore, West Bengal (As per Bengali calendar, 2nd day in the month of Pausa, Shukla Paksha, at the conjunction of Dasami and Ekadasi Tithi) to exceedingly pious and Godly personages, Sri Hemchandra Bandhopadhyay (Father) and Srimati Binoyini Devi (Mother), which marked the advent of an era. While, Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj – Sri Sri Balananda Brahmachari was physically present in Midnapore, during the holy birth of Sri Sri Guru Maharaj, however, the first heavenly meeting between Guru-Shishya happened one and a half years later, at Deoghar Ashram. Where his parents, had taken Sri Sri Guru Maharaj, to have the holy darshan of Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj.It was there, that the divine interaction occurred and the path of an immortal and holy chronicle was sieved. It has been later laid down by the family and acquaintances of his pre-monastic life, that Sri Sri Guru Maharaj had always had a calm and composed persona. He had an unexplainable divine aura, which often led to his companions looking up to him for suggestions and

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texts: guidance. While, other students of his age were loquacious and would indulge in fun and games, Sri Sri Guru Maharaj would be found quietly listening to Rabindra Sangeets or reading multitudinous books. His love for sangeet was quite ardently seen all through his life. While, his love for reading was evident in the fact that he carried an entire suitcase of books, through all his travels. Even now, his holy room in Deoghar Ashram (Mohan Mandir) is filled with awe-inspiring books, which stands as an exemplar for his love of reading and garnering knowledge.After having completed his schooling, Sri Sri Guru Maharaj took admission in the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, for Intermediate (I.A). Where, he resided at the Ogilive Hostel, for pursuing his higher education. But, as it is truly said, there is no barrier strong enough to disrupt God from attaining his grand scheme. Similarly, nothing could stop Sri Sri Guru Maharaj from leaving behind his materialistic life and moving ahead towards ultimate divinity. In the second year of his college life, on 9th September, 1921 at the age of just Seventeen, he went to Deoghar Ashram, offering himself at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Balananda <mask> (Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj). Even after several persuasions nothing could alter his perseverance. Finally, after 21 days, on the auspicious occasion of Durga Mahashtami, he renounced all worldly desires and walked on to the path of embracing the life of a Naisthik Brahmachari.He attained his diksha from Sri Sri Balananda Brahmachari and went on to become one of the


texts: revered saints, in all over India and abroad. During his early years at Deoghar Ashram, he set an example of astounding Guru Bhakti. His seraphic devotion and divinity towards his Guru, stands as an anecdote to all. From carrying several buckets of water for more than 750 ft. from the feet of Tapovan hill to the top, to staying awake all night to attend to his Guru, speaks of his monumental fidelity and adherence. The divine affection was such between Guru-Shishya that right after Sri Sri Balananda <mask>, left for his heavenly abode on 9th June’ 1937, a ray of light was seen to be transferred from his divine body and merged into Sri Sri Guru Maharaj Ji’s holy body. It is also said, that after the demise of Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj, his disciples had heard his divine voice saying “Hum Mohan Ek Hai” (Mohan and I are one). Sri Sri Balanada Brahmachari appointed Sri Sri Guru Maharaj to shoulder all responsibilities of Ashram as well as made him the Sevayat of Devi Maa (Sri Sri Bala Tripura Sundari Maa or Baleswari Maa).However, Guru Maharaj Ji’s attachment for his Guru was such, that thereafter, he renounced everything and secluded himself in the darkest forests of Naimisharanya. That is where he got the heavenly direction from Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj to return to Ashram and set out to the restore the lives of millions of awaiting his divine grace. From there on, Sri Sri Guru Maharaj, set on his celestial work throughout the nation. In all his works, he ensured to spread the holy name of his Guru – Sri Sri Balananda Brahmachari. He started off by


texts: establishing numerous temples and starting various Pujas and yagnas at Deoghar Ashram, such as Durga Puja, Dol Purnima Yagna for Sri Sri Boro Guru Maharaj’s abirbhaab tithi, Kali Puja, Annakut and many such works. Similarly, over his lifetime, he went on to establish Ashrams and Tirthashrams all over India, such as Badrinath, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Benaras, Puri, Vrindyavan, Durgapur, Bankura, Berhampur, Jamshedpur, and many more. His ultimate objective was to re-establish the Sanatan Dharma and offer a place for peace and divinity to mankind.For which he endeared the severe cold temperatures and high altitudes of Badrinath and performed Bishnu Lakshmi Yagna continuously for twenty four years at Badrinath Ashram. Similarly, he performed Rudra Yagna, Shiv Shakti Yagna for several years at Benaras Ashram. Through his establishments, he provided a place of solace for thousands of devotees. Besides these, he established numerous schools, colleges, Bridhyashrams and hospitals such as Sree Sree Mohanananda Cancer Hospital, Durgapur; Behala Balananda Brahmachari Hospital & Research Centre, Kolkata; Mohanananda Brahmachari Sishu Seva Pratisthan, Kolkata. Further to carry on his noble work, he established various trusts and societies, which till date, still function under his holy vision, guidelines and principles. His vision and mission was to build a sustainable society where health and education was made available to people belonging from all works of life. He has devoted his entire life to the betterment of the society, for each day, every day, until he left


texts: for his heavenly abode on 29th August’ 1999, in Tennessee, USA.Our beloved Guru Maharaj Ji has imparted to us his more viable pillars of teaching, i.e., “Seva o Sadhana” (Devotion to God through Service to Mankind). Through his unperturbed devotion towards his Guru – Sri Sri Balananda <mask> (Boro Guru Maharaj), meditation through Kirtans & Bhajans, selfless service to mankind in form of innumerable charitable works (such as establishment of Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Bridhyashrams, Anna Chhetras through his various ashrams, Daridra Narayan Seva during natural calamities, all over India), Guru Maharaj has laid down the foundations that treading on the path of humanity and humility is the ultimate direction to attain the Supreme Being. He established the core crux of Kali Yuga, by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, that God the Almighty can be achieved by Hari Naam Sankirtan. That Hari Naam is the ultimate path to attain moksha. His teachings, sermons, principles and guidelines for life were all conveyed through his Kirtans and Bhajans. Sri Sri Guru Maharaj’s Kirtans form the pillar of hope and faith through the darkest of times, for all his disciples. Through his divine teachings and Hari Naam Sankirtan, he has uplifted many iniquitous people, transforming them into saintly devotees.Through his unperturbed affection and compassion to mankind, he has restored the lives of millions of distressed souls. He is our Guru, but more than that, He is our Father, in all true sense. Being grateful to him is not enough. We have to apply his teachings in all works of our


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He took birth on 17 December 1904 in the town of Midnapore in Bengal province. His parents, a devout Brahmin couple, Binayani Devi and Hemachandra Bandopadhaya were devotees and disciples of Sri Balananda <mask>, a great saint who had taken up residence in the temple town of Deoghar in Bihar province. Sri Manamohan, as he was then named, passed his Entrance Examination in 1920 from Dhanbad English High School.Thereafter, he joined the Scottish Church College in Calcutta for his graduate studies and stayed in the Ogilvie Hostel. His classmates later remembered him for his pleasant yet indrawn personality, and for his touch of artistic sophistication which he brought to every task. Later on, it became apparent that Sri Manamohan had developed a great attraction for the divine life during this time and had begun practicing various austerities as well as studying several religious thought leaders such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. He had also collected detailed information about the religious practices followed at Deoghar Ashram from his family. Finally, he left the hostel on September 9, 1921 and travelled to the Deoghar ashram of Sri Balananda Brahmachari. Spiritual training and enlightenment
Over the next three weeks, Sri Balananda <mask> thoroughly tested the resolve of young Sri Manamohan and, after obtaining the consent of his parents as well, admitted him to the monastic life as <mask> <mask>.

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 His life at the Ashram was marked by the practice of severe austerity, the single-minded devotion and service to his Guru, and the total conformity with most rigid disciplines prescribed in the scriptures.The smooth and efficient management of the diverse activities at the Ashram was given due attention while he continued with the most rigorous 'tapasya' and undertook many arduous pilgrimages to numerous sacred places. Even after Sri Balananda <mask> passed away on 9 June 1927, Sri <mask> Brahmachari continued these arduous monastic pursuits. Only after receiving an express command from his Guru, given in a vision while he was practicing austerities at holy Naimisharanya, did Sri Maharaj assume the most difficult task of arousing the spiritual potential of people on a large scale by going himself to the devotees while adhering to the stringent discipline of "naisthikbrahmacharya". Sri Maharaj also founded many institutions for the material welfare of the public at large. All these activities were instituted to further his belief that sadhus (holy men) had the duty to contribute significantly to human society. Spiritual practice and establishments
Guru Mohrajji continued the Guru Parampara of ancient vedic practices for the benefit of humankind and all beings in entire universe. He expanded upong his Guru's work and went on setting up charitable ashrams to establish Dharma in its pristine form.Apart from the major Hindu festivals being conducted in Vedic ways across ashrams, he also used to conduct the extremely difficult Vishnu Lakshmi Yagna for benefit

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 of universe. His permanent state of spiritual divine glow blessed the souls of all beings fortunate enough to witness. The enormous spiritual powers accumulated through his Sadhana were never made explicit, except for the aura of ineffable peace which always emanated from him. Teachings and Amrita Lahiri
Very early in his life, Sri <mask> Brahmachari had learned that music and songs were very effective instruments available for arousing divine consciousness in the human spirit. He was deeply attracted by the lyrics and music of Rabindranath Tagore during his college days and he also witnessed the ability of the saint, Ramdas Babaji Maharaj, to bring ecstasy to massed crowds through his Kirtan. Having the gift of a sweet and melodious voice himself, Sri Maharaj regularly performed Kirtan at Deoghar Ashram and even his Guru was moved by his music. Sri Maharaj was thoroughly eclectic in his choice of lyrics.Apart from his own numerous compositions, Sri Maharaj liberally drew upon the works of Nanak, Brahmananda, Vidyapati, Surdas and other classical devotional compositions, as well as from the works of modern poets, most notably of Rabindranath as well as Girish Chandra, Atul Prasad and others. However, he did not hesitate to modify either the lyrics or the tune in order to create the maximum impact in the minds of the listeners. His audience, however, did not always know the lyrics. Finally, Sri Gobinda Prasad Ghose, a disciple of Sri Balananda <mask>, undertook the task of collating the Kirtan lyrics through laborious transcription, and published the

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 volume in July 1955. Pleased with the effort, Sri Maharaj named this volume Amrita Lahari or Waves of Nectar. Subsequently, a second volume was also published under the name Sudha Sagar or Sea of Nectar, bestowed by Sri Maharaj. Later on, the two volumes were merged into a single entity under the initial name of Amrita Lahari, and the combined volume has undergone many editions with an ever expanding inventory of songs.A collection of his songs from Amrita Lahiri is available in Amrita Lahiri online

Samadhi

Sri Maharaj left the mortal world at McMinville, Tennessee on August 29, 1999, but the soothing and uplifting influence of his memory, and of his Kirtans, continues to bring solace and joy to his innumerable disciples, devotees and admirers across the world even today. References
Official website of Sri Sri Balananda Ashrams

External links
 Official website of Sri Sri Balananda Ashrams
Guru Sri Sri Balananda Brahmachari
 Sri Sri <mask> Brahmachari
http://amritalahari.com/biography.php

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<mask> (born 7 July 1941) is a Cameroonian politician. He founded the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party in Cameroon, in 1990. He failed to get elected as a senator in 2013. Life and career
<mask> was born in Baba II, near Bamenda in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. The title of Ni, (a mark of respect) was given to him when he was born. He attended school in Cameroon at the Baforchu Basel Mission and the Santa Native Authority before going to Nigeria to study (at Lagos City College) and work in 1957. In 1966, he returned to Cameroon and began selling vegetables.He ran a bookstore in Bamenda, the Ebibi Book Centre, headed a football club from 1979 to 1988, and headed the Lions Club International branch in Bamenda from 1987 to 1988. He was a candidate of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC) in the Mezam Central constituency during the single-party 1988 parliamentary election, losing to a different RDPC list. <mask> was the founder of the SDF, an opposition party, in 1990. He was elected as the SDF's National Chairman at its First Ordinary National Convention, held in Bamenda in May 1992. In the October 1992 presidential election, he made a strong showing against President Paul Biya, losing with 36% of the vote against Biya's 40% according to official results (in Fru <mask>'s stronghold, Northwest Province, he officially won 86.3%). This election was condemned as fraudulent by the opposition, and Fru <mask> and third place opposition candidate Maigari Bello Bouba unsuccessfully sought for the election to be annulled by the Supreme Court. Amidst the outbreak of violence in the North-West Province that followed the election, Fru <mask> was placed under house arrest in late October 1992.After about a month, he was released. On 20 January 1993, <mask> <mask>, along with his wife Rose, attended the inauguration of United States President Bill Clinton. He and Rose were photographed with Clinton and Clinton's wife Hillary, and <mask> <mask>'s presence at the event had a symbolic impact in

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texts: Cameroon, giving the impression of recognition and legitimacy in light of <mask> <mask>'s claim to have won the 1992 election. Along with other opposition parties, the SDF chose to boycott the October 1997 presidential election. <mask> <mask> was re-elected as SDF Chairman at the party's fifth congress in April 1999, receiving 1,561 votes from delegates against 40 for his challenger, Chretien Tabetsing. <mask> <mask> was the SDF candidate in the October 2004 presidential election; according to official results, he took second place with 17.40% of the vote against 70.92% for Biya. He received his best results in Northwest Province (68.16%), followed by West Province (45.04%), Littoral Province (32.71%), and Southwest Province (30.59%).<mask> <mask> alleged fraud in the July 2007 parliamentary election and called for it to be annulled; in the election, the SDF won the second highest number of seats but was far behind the ruling RDPC, which won an overwhelming majority of seats. After the election, <mask> <mask> said that Biya should recognize him as the official leader of the opposition. <mask> <mask> said on November 14, 2007 that he would be willing to meet with Biya. He said that Biya had not invited him to meet and that he had tried to meet Biya several times, contradicting Biya's statement on French television that <mask> <mask> had not responded to his invitation. On 12 April 2008, <mask> <mask> called for a national day of mourning on 21 April 2008 to commemorate the individuals who died during the 2008 anti-government protests and the "death of democracy" in Cameroon. <mask> <mask> indicated that he believed the 2008 changes to the Constitution were intended to enable President Biya to be lifelong dictator of Cameroon and that the changes would institutionalize corruption, immunity, and inertia. <mask> <mask> again stood unsuccessfully as a candidate in the October 2011 presidential election, placing a distant second behind Biya.A few days after the election, on October 17, 2011, <mask> <mask>, alongside other

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 presidential candidates, called an emergency meeting to demand that Biya annul the election. In the April 2013 Senate election, <mask> <mask> stood as a candidate in the Northwest Province, his primary support base. The indirect election marked the creation of the upper house of Parliament; previously only the National Assembly had existed. <mask> <mask> failed to win a seat in the Senate. He alleged that the ruling party had bribed some SDF local councilors. <mask> <mask> has taken a critical stance against the Cameroonian government's handling of the Anglophone Crisis, a war that has affected him personally. In October 2018, Ambazonian separatists burned down his house in Bamenda.On April 19, 2019, his brother was kidnapped by gunmen, who demanded a ransom. Eight days later he was kidnapped himself, while visiting Kumbo, Northwest Region to attend the funeral of Joseph Banadzem, the Parliamentary group leader of the SDF. He was released shortly afterwards, with the SDF describing the whole affair as a "misunderstanding" that was quickly solved. It was revealed the next day that the separatist had kidnapped Fru <mask> in order to get a chance to talk to him. In a video that appeared online, gunmen asked the SDF leader to withdraw all SDF legislators from the National Assembly and the senate. Fru <mask> replied that he would not, stating that doing so would be counterproductive. In June 2019, <mask> <mask> stated that while he was not a separatist, the government "was pushing him" in that direction.Fru <mask> has made a point of always travelling without a security escort whenever he visits the Anglophone regions, stating that he is not afraid of his own people - including separatists. References

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A Brief Narrative on the Man Ni John Fru Ndi by Sarli Sardou Nana
Website of SDF Germany
SDF Websiten
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<mask> (; February 16, 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, art teacher, scenographer, and stage designer who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting. Biography
<mask> was born February 16, 1915, in the Petrograd, Russian Empire. In 1937, <mask> entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There she studied under Boris Fogel, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexander Zaytsev, and Igor Grabar. In 1946, <mask> graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin as stage designer in Mikhail Bobishov workshop. Her graduated work was design the play by E. Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac."Since 1947, <mask> <mask> has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, cityscapes, still lifes, landscapes, genre paintings, sketches for the theatre costumes and set-scenes. She worked in watercolor, oil and tempera paintings. A talented colorist, mastered techniques of plein air painting. The beauty of color and fundamental composition attached to her works soft poetic sounds, raising levels of everyday scenes to complete and

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 profound image. Development of a picturesque manners went in the direction of strengthening decorative qualities of painting. Since 1946, <mask> <mask> was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.In years of 1940-1960s, <mask> Shteinmiller taught drawings and painting in the Leningrad's Higher School of Art and Industry (since 1953 named after Vera Mukhina). <mask> Pavlovna Shteinmiller died on November 11, 1991 in Leningrad. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in Russia, Germany, France, England, the U.S., Italy, and others. See also
 Leningrad School of Painting
 List of 20th-century Russian painters
 List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

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 1951 (Leningrad): Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951, with Piotr Alberti, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frentz, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Tatiana Kopnina, Alexander Lubimov, Evsey Moiseenko, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Sergei Osipov, Alexander Pushnin, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vladimir Seleznev, Alexander Shmidt, <mask> <mask>, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Mikhail Tkachev, Yuri Tulin, Igor Veselkin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other

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texts: important Leningrad artists. 1957 (Leningrad): 1917 – 1957. 1957 (Moscow): All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution, with Vsevolod Bazhenov, Nikolai Baskakov, Irina Baldina, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Buchkin, Zlata Bizova, Nikolai Galakhov, Elena Gorokhova, Alexei Eriomin, Engels Kozlov, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Boris Lavrenko, Oleg Lomakin, Nikita Medovikov, Evsey Moiseenko, Mikhail Natarevich, Samuil Nevelshtein, Yuri Neprintsev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Alexander Pushnin, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Alexander Semionov, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Ivan Varichev, Piotr Vasiliev, Nina Veselova, Sergei Zakharov, Maria Zubreeba, and other important Leningrad artists. 1962 (Leningrad): The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962, with Piotr Alberti, Evgenia Antipova, Taisia Afonina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Ivan Varichev, Valery Vatenin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eremin, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Valeria Larina, Oleg Lomakin, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Piotr Nazarov, Vera Nazina, Mikhail Natarevich, Dmitry Oboznenko, Lev Orekhov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Sergei


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 Osipov, Nikolai Pozdneev, Galina Rumiantseva, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Alexander Tatarenko, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, and other important Leningrad artists.1994 (Saint Petersburg): The Leningrad Artists. 1996 (Saint Petersburg): Paintings of 1940-1990s. The Leningrad School, with Piotr Alberti, Taisia Afonina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Irina Baldina, Veniamin Borisov, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgeny Chuprun, Nikolai Galakhov, Tatiana Gorb, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Mikhail Kozell, Maya Kopitseva, Marina Kozlovskaya, Alexander Koroviakov, Vladimir Krantz, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Piotr Litvinsky, Dmitry Maevsky, Valentina Monakhova, Mikhail Natarevich, Anatoli Nenartovich, Samuil Nevelshtein, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Victor Otiev, Nikolai Pozdneev, Evgeny Pozdniakov, Lev Russov, Galina Rumiantseva, Kapitolina Rumiantseva, Alexander Samokhvalov, Alexander Semionov, <mask> <mask>, German Tatarinov, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Leonid Tkachenko, Anatoli Vasiliev, Igor Veselkin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ruben Zakharian, and other important Leningrad artists. Bibliography
 Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1951. – p. 22.The

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texts: Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Leningrad artist, 1958. – p. 68. 1917 – 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalogue.– Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1958. – p. 86. All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. – Moscow: Soviet artist, 1957. – p. 258. The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958.Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1959. – p. 50. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1961. – p. 46.Soviet Russia republic exhibition of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. – Moscow: Ministry of culture of Russian Federation, 1960. – p. 93. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964.– p. 44. Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962. Exhibition Catalogue. – Leningrad: : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1962. – p. 28. The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965.– pp. 62, 142. Art works by Russian Federation Artists grants to Museums and Culture Institutions (1963–1971). Official Catalogue. – Moscow: Russian Federation Union of Artists, 1972. – p. 128. Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975.Catalogue. –


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<mask> (; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years. Early life
<mask> was born on 5 November 1926 in Stoke Newington, London, the first of two children of Miriam and <mask>. His grandfather was from Trieste, Italy, and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-religious Jew who adopted Catholicism, had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross and an OBE. <mask> was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. He served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1944 to 1946.He enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London. Career
<mask> began his career as a painter and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. His art has been shown at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London. <mask> taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college. He later became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman. His Marxist humanism and his strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career. As a statement of political commitment, he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red.<mask> was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): rather he was a close associate of it and its front, the Artists’ International Association (AIA), until the latter disappeared in 1953. He was active in the Geneva Club, a discussion group that appears to have overlapped with British communist circles in the 1950s. Publishing
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 essays on the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance, Hold Everything Dear, was titled after the poem by Gareth Evans. His later novels include To the Wedding, a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis, and King: A Street Story, a novel about homelessness and shantytown life told from the perspective of a stray dog. Initially, <mask> insisted that his name be kept off the cover and title page of King, wanting the novel to be received on its own merits. <mask>'s 1980 volume About Looking includes an influential chapter, "Why Look at Animals?"It is cited by numerous scholars in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies. The chapter was later reproduced in a Penguin Great Ideas selection of essays of the same title. <mask>'s novel From A to X was long-listed for the 2008 Booker Prize. In Bento's Sketchbook (2011) <mask> combines extracts from Baruch Spinoza, sketches, memoir, and observations in a book that contemplates the relationship of materialism to spirituality. According to <mask>, what could be seen as a contradiction "is beautifully resolved by Spinoza, who shows that it is not a duality, but in fact an essential unity". The book has been described as "a characteristically sui generis work combining an engagement with the thought of the 17th-century lens grinder, draughtsman, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza, with a study of drawing and a series of semi-autobiographical sketches". Among his last works is Confabulations (essays, 2016).Other work
In 1999, <mask> voiced both twin brother characters Archie and Albert Crisp in the video game Grand Theft Auto: London 1969. He was a member of the Support Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Personal life
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 married the Russian Anya Bostock (née Anna Sisserman), with whom he had two children, Katya <mask> and <mask>; the couple divorced in the mid-1970s. Soon afterwards, he married Beverly Bancroft, with whom he had one child, Yves. Beverly died in 2013. <mask> died at his home in Antony, France, on 2 January 2017 at the age of 90.Legacy
In July 2009 <mask> donated his archive of 369 files, nine boxes and one book to the British Library. The contents include literary manuscripts, drafts, unpublished material and correspondence. (2001)
The Shape of a Pocket (2001)
I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence between <mask> and <mask> (with <mask>) (2001)
 My Beautiful (with Marc Trivier) (2004)
<mask> on Drawing (2005)
Here is Where We Meet (2005)
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (2007; 2nd ed. 2016)
The Red Tenda of Bologna (2007)
War with No End (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, Joe Sacco and Haifa Zangana) (2007)
Meanwhile (2008)
Why Look at Animals? (2009)
From I to J (with Isabel Coixet) (2009)
 Lying Down to Sleep (with Katya <mask>) (2010)
 Railtracks (with Anne Michaels) (2011)
Bento's Sketchbook (2011)
Cataract (with Selçuk Demirel) (2012)
Understanding a Photograph (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2013)
Daumier: The Heroism of Modern Life (2013)
Flying Skirts: An Elegy (with <mask>) (2014)
Portraits: <mask> on Artists (Tom Overton, ed.) (2015)
Cuatro horizontes (Four Horizons) (with Sister Lucia Kuppens, Sister Telchilde Hinkley and <mask>) (2015)
Lapwing & Fox (Conversations between <mask> and <mask>) (2016)
Confabulations (Essays) (2016)
Landscapes: <mask> on Art (Tom Overton, ed.)(2016)
John by Jean: Fifty Years of Friendship (Jean Mohr, ed.) (2016)
A Sparrow's Journey: <mask> Reads Andrey Platonov (CD: 44:34 & 81-page book with Robert Chandler and Gareth Evans), London: House

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 Sparrow Press in association with the London Review Bookshop (2016)
Smoke (with Selçuk Demirel) (2017)
Seeing Through Drawing  (with <mask>) (2017). The book, published by OBJECTIF, features new texts by and about <mask> plus a catalogue section of images, information and stories from the invited artists in the main exhibition held on 8 July – 26 August 2017 at Mandell's Gallery, Norwich. It contains two previously unpublished sequences of correspondence on art and communications between <mask> and his daughter Katya <mask>is along with tributes and stories from: Anne Michaels, <mask>, Eulàlia Bosch, Geoff Dyer, Gareth Evans, Paul Gordon and Tom Overton. The book also features a compilation of writings on the art and practice of drawing collected together by <mask>, from across <mask>'s art criticism, fiction, essays and letters. What Time Is It? (with Selçuk Demirel) (Maria Nadotti, ed.)(2019)
Swimming Pool (with Leon Kossoff) (Introduction by Deborah Levy. Postscript by <mask>. <mask>’s Texts selected by Teresa Pintó. Book design by <mask>) (2020)

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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of <mask> (2016), directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz. Reviews
Harkness, Allan (1983), <mask>: A Seventh Man?, review of A Seventh Man and Another Way of Telling, in Hearn, Sheila G.(ed. ), Cencrastus No. 12, Spring 1983, pp.46 & 47,

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Further reading

 Sperling, Joshua (2018) A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of <mask>
 Bounds, Philip "Beyond : The Media Criticism of <mask>" in Philip Bounds and Mala Jagmohan (eds), Recharting Media Studies, Peter Lang 2008,
 Dyer, Geoff Ways of Telling: The Work of <mask>, . Dyer, Geoff (Ed.) <mask>, Selected Essays, Bloomsbury. .
 Fuller, Peter (1980) <mask>. A Revaluation of , Writers and Readers. .
 Hertel, Ralf and David Malcolm (eds. ), On

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 <mask>: Telling Stories. Leiden: Brill, 2015. .
 Hochschild, Adam Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (Syracuse University Press, 1997), "Broad Jumper in the Alps," pp. 50–64.Krautz, Jochen Vom Sinn des Sichtbaren. <mask>s Ästhetik und Ethik als Impuls für die Kunstpädagogik am Beispiel der Fotografie, Hamburg 2004 (Dr. Kovac) . Merrifield, <mask> <mask>, London: Reaktion Books, 2012. Papastergiadis, Nikos Modernity as exile: The stranger in <mask>'s writing (Manchester University Press, 1993)
 Chandan, Amarjit; Evans, Gareth; Gunaratnam, Yasmin (Eds.) The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for <mask>, Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2016. Chandan, Amarjit; Gunaratnam, Yasmin (Eds.) A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of <mask>, London: Zed Books, 2016.External links

Postscript: <mask>, 1926–2017
'Introduction to <mask> on Picasso' Mike Gonzalez in International Socialism 40 (1988). Defending Picasso's late work by <mask>, International Socialism 40 (1988). Verso Books author page
John Berger Archive at the British Library

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texts: <mask> (born in 1967) is a contemporary artist and philosopher, and the founder of George Magalios Studios. <mask> is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who makes works in fields such as painting, photography, sculpture, and performance art. <mask> is an unusual artist because of his use of unique names and identities for each body of work: <mask> (The Fall Line painting series), <mask> (sculpture and installation art), Will Swinburne (performance art), Giorgio Fati (photography), and Jorge Griego (Energy Plan for the Florida Man painting series). <mask> bases all of his work and thought on the ground palette, a concept and form he has developed from his research into pre-historic cave painting. The ground palette is both a philosophical foundation and an aesthetic way of thinking that attempts to distill language and ideas down to their essences. In articles and various websites, <mask> lists his influences as Led Zeppelin, Willie Mays, Tim Tebow and his parents, Virginia and <mask>. He has exhibited in exhibitions in New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and other cities across North America as well as in Athens and across Europe and continues his practice today in West Palm Beach, Florida.<mask> <mask> writes art theoretical works and art reviews of contemporary and modern art issues. He is a student of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean Baudrillard and he incorporates much of the ideas of these thinkers in both his art and his writings. He has presented papers and the College Art Association conference in New York (2007) and at the Subtle Technologies Conference in Toronto (2002). In addition to Montreal, <mask> has lived in Paris, San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. Though he has lived in the United States for most of his life, the artist considers himself a Montrealer, albeit an exiled one. Sometimes referring to

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 himself as a "Site-Specific Philosopher", <mask> is known for his attempt to fuse an aesthetic practice with a personal one based on virtue, truth, and beauty. Montreal, 1967–1974
<mask> was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.When <mask> was six years-old in 1973 he built a cave out of a mountain of snow in his backyard. This experience is considered by the artist to be a formative one and he has since called the work "Snow Womb" and has listed it in various biographies and lists of exhibitions. The artist remembers Montreal winters as being wombs of white and cold comforted by his mother's cooking and his visits to various Greek relatives. Raised in a Greek household, the artist grew up to speak English, Greek, and French and the cosmopolitan cultural environment proved to be a major influence on the artist's political and cultural outlook. West Palm Beach, 1974–1986
When <mask> was 7 years-old his family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. The shift from rich and colorful Montreal to provincial South Florida proved to be a dramatic one. The artist's father signed him up for little league baseball as a way to get initiated into American culture and this game would prove to be a formative experience in his relationship to the United States.Around the age of 8 <mask>'s mother had him take painting lessons for the first time. The artist was told by the teacher, an established painter of portraits, that he should "stick to baseball" since his art skills were "limited at best". The artist first remembers painting a clown portrait based on a magazine photo. During his youth, the artist developed a reputation for pranks and athletic prowess on the baseball diamond. Around the age of 12 the artist is said to have begun a serious study of the music of Led Zeppelin, a band <mask> often lists as an influence on his work to this day. Soon after <mask><mask> discovered

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 the work of Vincent Van Gogh when his mother bought him his first art book, a retrospective of the painter's work that the artist is said to still own and refer to for inspiration today. At Cardinal Newman High School <mask> hovered between athlete and artist and developed a reputation that defied easy classification because of his ability to hit a fastball 400 feet and appreciate the nuances of The Smiths, The Church, R.E.M.and Echo and the Bunnymen. Gainesville, 1986–1989
Upon graduating from high school <mask> attended the University of Florida where he began to study political theory and art history. It was during this time in Gainesville that he began to paint more seriously as he undertook a series of oils on canvas depicting the chromatic tendencies of the human face as it responded to various emotional stimuli. It is believed that only three of these paintings are extant. It was at the University of Florida where <mask> first developed a reputation as a developing painter and ardent defender of the sublime in art. Montreal, 1989–1992
In 1988, while still at the University of Florida, <mask> decided to move back to his native Montreal and take a year-long break from studies. Arriving in 1989 <mask> began a series of black and white semi-figurative paintings on masonite panels and ink drawings on paper.None of the paintings are believed to be still in existence as the artist has never mentioned them in any of his lists of works. In 1990, <mask> painted the first, of what would continue to be his most important series of Autumn-themed paintings. The work was a red-orange series of "leaves" on multiple 2x4 studs of wood that were individually screwed into a wall to become both a sculptural and painterly work. In 1991 <mask> began site-specific installations that consisted of assemblages of street trash from his Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood. The

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 assemblages would take the form of traditional Hindu Siva-Sakti lingam sculptures. This return to sculpture was inspired, in part, by a sense of existential homecoming the artist felt after living away from Montreal for 15 years. It was during the same year that the artist returned to complete his bachelor's degree at Concordia University.While there he was introduced to the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Baudrillard, two thinkers who would play a strong role in forming <mask>'s vision of the world that combined a penchant for a critical approach to perception and politics with an affirmation of the light and darkness of living. San Francisco, 1992–1997
In 1992 <mask> moved to San Francisco and was instantly influenced by the dramatic landscapes of the Pacific Coast and the Sierra Nevada, as well as by the atmosphere of kindness, friendship, and creativity in the Bay area. During this period he devoted himself almost exclusively to a series of guerilla site-specific installation works in both rural and urban settings. The works were often ephemeral in nature and largely influenced by artists such as Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. He also continued experimenting with a series of paintings on cardboard and canvas that explored a minimal use of painterly brush strokes in the earth colors of the ground palette. In 1993 <mask> enrolled in the Master's program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Department at San Francisco State University. He would write his thesis on the views of art and technology held by Joseph Beuys and Martin Heidegger.The thesis, entitled "Site-Specific Philosophy", was an attempt to craft a philosophical way of thinking and living using the paradigms of installation-based sculpture. The thesis was well received and continues to be a foundation for much of the artist's writings. New York, 1997–1998
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 degree <mask> moved to New York in 1998 to pursue a PhD in cultural theory at the New School for Social Research. He dropped out during the first day of classes after experiencing an epiphany on the streets of Greenwich Village. The vision was one of a life of art-making instead of a life of teaching and writing about art. It would prove to be a life-altering moment that allowed <mask> to fully embrace the art practice fully as a way of life rather than a way of theory. New York would also prove to be an important home for <mask> as he often mentions the importance of seeing so many important exhibitions and works by his heroes first hand.The Robert Rauschenberg retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 1997 and the Matisse collection at the Museum of Modern art are two examples frequently cited as poignant discoveries. Pittsburgh, 1998–2005
In 1998 <mask><mask> began studies in the MFA program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, upon a recommendation from Arthur Kroker, a former professor at Concordia University. While at Carnegie Mellon he met Bill Kofmehl and began a series of performance and installation works that explored concepts such as hunting, nature, and technology's influence on perception. It was in Pittsburgh where the artist further refined The Fall Line series of paintings and completed a separate, yet related, group of works called "Ground Palette Details", that were pictorial riffs of the ground palette form. The time in Pittsburgh was filled with wild experimentation for <mask>. It included forays into video art, digital media, and stand-up comedy. References

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<mask> (23 April 1941 – 9 January 2016), known as <mask> "Stewpot" <mask>, was an English radio broadcaster and TV presenter. He was principally known for his work as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 (particularly the Saturday morning Junior Choice) and Radio 2, and as a presenter for Top of the Pops and Crackerjack on BBC Television. Biography

Early life and career
<mask> was born <mask>, the son of a Treasury solicitor, in Exmouth, Devon, on  . He attended Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire and St Edward's School, Oxford, and his broadcasting career began in Hong Kong. While touring there as bass player with a jazz group, he gained a job on a local radio station as a sports commentator, then as an announcer and, finally, as a disc jockey. He remained at this station for four years. In July 1965 <mask> became a DJ on the offshore radio station Radio London (Big L) where he became a household name before the Marine Offences Act (1967) was passed, and was its chief DJ by the time it closed on 14 August 1967.Career with BBC Radio and Television
After Radio London shut down, <mask> became one of the first DJs to join Radio 1, presenting Happening Sunday and What's New. In 1968, <mask> took over the weekend morning Junior Choice show, where he remained for a dozen years. The show was peppered with catch-phrase jingles such as "'Ello Darlin'", recorded by an unknown patient at a hospital in Billericay, and "Happy Birthday to You" sung by an eight-year-old boy, from a football club in Crosskeys, on the team coach after the match. In 1968 he recorded the charity single "I Like My Toys", a cover of The Idle Race song, as "Stewpot And Save The Children Fund Choir". In 1972 he also presented Radio 1's Sunday Sport show. One week in early 1972, he stood in for Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops, as well as sitting in for the likes of David Hamilton and Terry Wogan through the 1970s. On 10 September 1973 <mask> became the first presenter of Radio

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<mask> moved to the commercial radio station Radio Mercury (now Heart FM), for six years, presenting their mid-morning show. Back to the BBC
<mask> rejoined Radio 2 in 1991, first presenting a series of shows and then a regular Saturday afternoon show throughout the summer. In 1992, he once again presented weekday afternoons. This time, the show was broadcast from 3:30pm to 5pm, before moving to 3pm to 5pm in the spring of 1996 and 2pm to 5pm in the spring of 1998. In 1995, <mask> made radio history when he broadcast his Radio 2 show live from the summits of Ben Nevis and Snowdon, in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. The senior guide on the ascent, Wayne Naylor, said at the time that <mask> had carried his own equipment and was accompanied by his wife. In early July 1999, <mask> was taken off the weekday afternoon slot, and moved to his Sunday evening show from 5pm to 7pm.At the time the official word was that <mask> had decided to go into semi-retirement, however he later revealed in his autobiography that he was taken off from the programme by then controller Jim Moir. He was replaced in the afternoons by Steve Wright, who continues to host the show to this day. During this time, <mask> also became a stand in for Terry Wogan on the Breakfast show until around 2002. His Sunday show was a

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 blend of music and chat, plus listeners' letters and Where Are They Now?, a feature that attempts to re-unite old friends who have lost touch with each other. The show ran until <mask> left Radio 2 in April 2006, not long after his autobiography was published in which he questioned the position of his colleagues Sarah Kennedy and Johnnie Walker on the network. Walker replaced him on Sunday afternoons. <mask> was back for Radio 2's 40th birthday on Sunday 30 September 2007, hosting Junior Choice.The revival was so successful, that <mask> returned to present Junior Choice on Christmas Eve that year, which led to him hosting further editions of Junior Choice on Christmas Day from 2008 to 2015. <mask> also hosted the afternoon show on Radio Bristol for two days in the run up to Christmas 2001, and also appeared on the Ken Bruce show's Pop Master quiz on Radio 2 on 2 October 2007. Anneka Rice replaced <mask> on the Christmas edition of Junior Choice, from 2017 onwards, after a hiatus in 2016 following his death. Other TV and radio work

<mask>, with the London Boy Singers, performed a theme song for the foreign TV series, "Barbapapa" in 1974, and was heard in the English-dubbed version of the series that was produced for BBC Television in January 1975 until its run ended in 1978. In February 2005, <mask> took over the weekday afternoon show on Spectrum FM, an English-speaking radio station that broadcasts to Spain. <mask> was heard on Big L 1395 covering for David Hamilton on 18 December 2006, and also in January 2007. He also covered for Mike Read there in March 2007.He presented special shows on Classic Gold on Christmas Day 2006, New Year's Day 2007 and also May Day Bank Holiday Monday 2007. He did a one-off Sunday morning show (10am2pm) on KCFM in September 2008. He also stood in for Shaun Tilley on his programme "I Haven't Heard It For Ages" (2pm4pm) on Sundays on KCFM 2008/9. From February 2009 to September 2009 <mask>

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 presented on Saturday and Sunday mornings between 9am and noon on Internet radio station Wight FM (this was voicetracked). <mask> also stood in for Shaun Tilley on the networked show The Retro Chart Years for a week in August 2009 and again in 2010. He also appeared on another of Shaun Tilley's shows The Vintage Top 40 Show, which goes out on various BBC local stations on Sundays at 5pm. In July 2014, he took part in a Radio Legends week, presenting a one-off four hour show on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey.Look-in Magazine
For many years <mask> was the figurehead for children's magazine Look-in, the "Junior TV Times". Starting in 1971 with a feature on a day in his life, he was brought in as a regular with a feature called "'Stewpot's Look-out", which later became "'Stewpot's Newsdesk". They also used his name in other features such as "Stewpot's Starchart". Newsdesk ended in 1980, as did <mask>'s association with the magazine. Cameo
The voice saying "Excuse me, may I have the pleasure of this dance?" on the original 1973 single "Won't Somebody Dance with Me" by Lynsey de Paul was <mask>'s. Personal life

<mask>'s two main interests were playing golf (he often met listeners of his programme who volunteered to caddy for him) and football; he was a supporter of Everton F.C.In 1975 <mask> was inducted into the entertainment fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats. While working for Jimmy Henney, <mask> met his future wife Chiara, Henney's daughter, who was then aged 13. The couple married four years later, in London, on 2 July 1974, but split up in November 2003 and divorced in 2005. The couple had a daughter and a son. From 2004 until his death, <mask>'s girlfriend was Elly. She accompanied him on many of his appearances and was with him in the studio for his last edition of his children's show Junior Choice on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Day 2015. He was a close friend of Max Bygraves.On Bygraves's death in 2012 he recalled him as

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 a "unique talent" whose skills as a comedian, actor and singer "brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people". <mask> was also an advocate and supporter of Phab Ltd, a charity operating in England and Wales which promotes inclusion for children and adults with disabilities. <mask> attended annual events held to raise awareness of Phab's work. From September 2008 <mask> was the presenter of Mantovani concerts, featuring the Magic of Mantovani Orchestra, which took place at the Lighthouse in Poole, and at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth. On the first two of these, he was joined by co-presenter, Alexandra Bastedo. Also connected with those concerts are his contributions to the filmed documentary Mantovani, King of Strings (Odeon Entertainment) IMDb and on the Radio 2 programme Mantovani by Michael Freedland, broadcast three days before his death on 6 January 2016. At the time of his death, <mask> was planning to do a Stewpot Music Quiz tour of the UK with UK quiz promoters Quiz Britain, with his last charity quiz appearance at Walhampton Arms on 6 November 2015 for a local Hampshire hospice.Death
Just 2 weeks after hosting the 2015 Christmas Day edition of Junior Choice on BBC Radio 2, <mask> died suddenly, aged 74, on 9 January 2016 in hospital in Bournemouth after suffering a major stroke a few days earlier. On 10 February 2016 BBC Radio 2 broadcast an hour-long tribute to <mask> introduced by Anneka Rice, who went on to take over the Christmas Day edition of Junior Choice, starting the following year. Autobiography
<mask>, <mask> (2005), <mask>: Out Of The Stewpot: My Autobiography, John Blake Publishing,

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External links

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texts: <mask> (born March 19, 1954) is a Jewish symphonic and operatic conductor and music director based in York, Pennsylvania, United States. He has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. Among the many concerts he has led have been the full works of the Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky symphonies and the Strauss tone poems, in addition to most of the orchestral works of Mahler, Dvorak, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc,Ernest Bloch, and Bon Que Que. Artists with whom he has performed include pianists Joaquín Achúcarro, Alexander Peskanov, Valentina Igoshina and Christopher O'Riley; violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Pamela Frank, Eugene Drucker, Ilya Kaler and Xiang Gao; violist Paul Neubauer; cellists Carter Brey, Yo-Yo Ma, David Finckel, Zuill Bailey and Paul Tobias; flutist James Galway; French hornist Richard Todd, trumpeter David Hickman, baritone Sherrill Milnes; soprano Angela Brown; bass-baritone Justino Diaz and many other acclaimed artists. He has guest conducted at Radio City Music Hall and for the Spoleto U.S.A. and appeared at Carnegie Hall. <mask> won a 1977 Composition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, and ASCAP contemporary music programming awards with New York Youth Symphony in 1977 and the York (PA) Symphony Orchestra in 1986. The St. Louis Philharmonic under <mask>'s direction won a 2004 Telly Award for best classical local cable TV production.<mask> has also performed as an oboist. He has been involved in several community outreach programs usually sponsored by his

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 various orchestras. He has served as visiting professor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, Mars Hill College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the State University of New York. He has also been involved in outreach programs through the North Carolina School of the Arts, Penn State York, and the Logos Academy. Education
<mask> holds diplomas and degrees from the following institutions: Manhattan School of Music (preparatory division - NYC) ('69-'71), Academie Internationale d'ete (Nice, France) 1970, Mozarteum Conservatory (Salzburg, Austria) 1971, Horace Mann School (Riverdale, NY) 1971, Harvard University (A.B. cum laude - 1974), Yale University (M.Mus. '76, M.M.A '78, D.M.A '87), York College of Pennsylvania (Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1999).He has studied conducting privately with Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, James Yannatos, Arthur Weisberg, Henry Bloch, Johannes Somary, and Otto-Werner Mueller. He has also studied in master classes given by Lorin Maazel, Harold Farberman, Morton Gould, Maurice Abravanel, Jorge Mester, Sorghum Commissiona, and William Steinberg. Orchestras
<mask> is employed by a number of orchestras, but his primary work lies with the following:

 The Saint Louis Philharmonic (St. Louis, Missouri) as Conductor and Music Director. He has been with the Orchestra since 1982. The Asheville Lyric Opera (Asheville, North Carolina) as Principal Guest Conductor
 The Asheville Symphony Orchestra (Asheville, North Carolina) as Conductor Emeritus

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 held positions with:
 The Harrisburg Choral Society (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)as Director. The Asheville Symphony Orchestra as Conductor and Music Director (Asheville, NC: 1981-2004)
 The York Symphony Orchestra (York, Pennsylvania) as Conductor and Music Director. The York Symphony Chorus and Chamber Society (York, Pennsylvania) as Director.The York Youth Symphony as Music Director and Conductor Laureate (York, Pennsylvania: 1987 -1999)
 The New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall (New York, New York: 1977-1981)
 The Putnam (NY) Symphony Orchestra (1979–1981) as Conductor and Music Director
 The Danbury (CT) Little Symphony (1978–1981)
 The Connecticut Philharmonic Orchestra (1974–2001) as Founding Director and Conductor
 Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University (1972–1974) as Conductor and Music Director
 The Bicentennial Festival Orchestra (1976) as conductor at Boston Symphony Hall
 The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra as principal oboe. Guest conducting
In the United States
<mask> has been a guest conductor for the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra (State College, Pennsylvania), Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. He has also conducted at New York City's Radio City Music Hall and for orchestras in Montana, Arizona, Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Internationally
<mask> has been guest conductor for the Busan Symphony Orchestra (Busan, South Korea), Orquestra do Norte (Porto, Portugal), Zurich Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Virtuoso Strings of


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 Messina (Messina, Italy), Szeged Philharmonic Orchestra (Szeged, Hungary), Vratsa State Philharmonic Orchestra (Vratsa, Bulgaria), Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México (Mexico), and the Regina Symphony Orchestra (Canada). He has also conducted in Sabadell (Spain). Opera and ballet
Asheville Lyric Opera - Carmen, La bohème, The Pirates of Penzance, La traviata, Madama Butterfly
Brevard Music Center (Brevard, North Carolina) - Carmen
Connecticut Opera - Madame Butterfly
Cullowhee Music Festival (Cullowhee, North Carolina) as Music Director and Conductor (1987–1989) - La traviata, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro
Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy)  and Spoleto Festival USA as Assistant Conductor - worked on productions with Gian Carlo Menotti, Christian Badea, and Joseph Flufferfelt

Other projects

He has worked with composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Suzanne Bloch. He has given score readings and analysis.He worked with Richard Schulman of Asheville on Schulman's Camelot, and he is an acknowledged expert on the orchestral works of Horatio Parker (better known as teacher to Charles Ives) and on the music of Caryl Florio (aka William Robjohn), the English organist who became the in house composer at the famous Biltmore Estate. He also served as musical consultant to D. Elaine Calderin for two short stories from her book, Who Better to Play the Devil?. Publications and recordings

 St. Louis Holiday Spectacular DVD (won national Telly award in 2004 for best classical local cable production)
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 Holiday Video (finals of NBC's Clash of Choirs) and 2010 Holiday Pops Concert
 Stories of the Land - Along dutch Country Roads (Collaboration with colleague Stephen Gunzenhauser for the Lancaster-York Heritage Region DVD series - <mask> conducted the film score itself. Arranged Nocturne for String Orchestra" Composed by Borodin. LP and CD. Vanguard Records
 Conductor Piano Concertos Composed by Liszt. Szeged Philharmonic, Hungary.CD. Aurefon Records. Conductor Brahms- Symphonies No.s 1 & 3, Mahler- Symphony No. 4, Dvorak- Symphony No.8, Strauss- Till Eulenspiegel, the works of Carl Florio, all with Asheville Symphony Orchestra. CD. Sonari Records
 Conductor Holst-The Planets, Wagner - Rienzi Overture, Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, all with the St. Louis Philharmonic.CD. Sonari Records
 Conductor Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto with David Perry and the Cullowhee Music Festival Orchestra. CD. Sonari Records. Conductor Lizst - Malediction, Strauss - Don Juan" all with Cullowhee Music Festival Orchestra. CD. CMF Label.Conductor Symphony in C-sharp minor St. Louis Philharmonic. LP only. Ernest Bloch Society records. References

Further sources
 <mask> <mask>'s professional resume on Price Rubin Artists Management. Retrieved 22 December 2011. <mask>'s official biography on CHL Artists Management. Retrieved 22 December 2011.21st-century conductors (music)
Living people
1954 births
Harvard University alumni
Musicians from York, Pennsylvania
Yale School of Music alumni
Pupils of Leonard Bernstein
Pupils of Aaron Copland
21st-century

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