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    "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks and again the following...
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    "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" is a song for soprano and piano composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1966, based on the eponymous text by Edward Lear. It is Stravinsky's...
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    Edward Lear (redirect from The Jumblies)
    including "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", but only two of the scores have survived, the music for "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" and "The Pelican Chorus"...
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  • goose" (in the sense of "silly person"), a "runcible wall", and "the Rural Runcible Raven". Edward Lear's best-known poem, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, published...
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  • The Owl and the Pussycat is the soundtrack album to the 1970 American film of the same name. Released by Columbia Records, it features film dialogue by...
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    J.F.K., for baritone or mezzo-soprano and three clarinets (1964) "The Owl and the Pussy Cat", for soprano and piano (1966) Three Pieces for String Quartet...
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    of its chimneys. Foss is said to have been the model for the pussycat in Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" illustrations, though he chose to depict a...
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  • Owl and the Pussy Cat Problem". KET. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2017. "The Ring Problem/The Wedding Problem"...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Twelve-tone and serial composers)
    Stravinsky's final major work, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, a song for soprano and piano, was his last composition. The composer also left a number of unfinished...
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  • plays. Sources Owl and the Pussy Cat Zoo Story Filth by Irvine Welsh Gentleman God of Carnage "Rajeev Ravindranathan's review of Lingaa". The Times of India...
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    Palindrome (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Madrigals. Igor Stravinsky's final composition, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, is a palindrome.[unreliable source?] The first movement from Constant Lambert's ballet...
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    Concrete Cows (category Vandalized works of art in the United Kingdom)
    Other examples of her work here include The Owl and The Pussy Cat at Netherfield and a concrete mural near the leisure centre at Stantonbury. They were...
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    Vera de Bosset (category Soviet emigrants to the United States)
    (January 7, 1889 – September 17, 1982) was an American dancer and artist. She is better known as the second wife of composer Igor Stravinsky, whom she married...
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  • Théodore Strawinsky (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Switzerland)
    father was the composer Igor Stravinsky, who at the time of his son's birth was still under the private tutelage of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and his mother...
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    sister Mary. The family occupied a Victorian three-storey house near Hampstead Heath. Her parents, sister, and their pet cat Geoffrey lived on the ground floor...
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    Michael Hague (redirect from In the Small)
    Family Christmas Treasury (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1995) The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, and Other Nonsense Poems (North-South Books, 1995) Michael Hague's...
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  • Knight's Cinderella, 1978 The Circus is Coming, 1978 The Algonquin Cat, 1980 The Twelve Days of Christmas, 1981 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (by Edward Lear), 1983...
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    Neoclassicism (music) (category Society of the interwar period)
    balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint. As such, neoclassicism was a reaction against the unrestrained emotionalism and perceived formlessness...
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    (January 25, 1881 – March 2, 1939) was a Russian and French painter and amanuensis who was the cousin and first wife of Igor Stravinsky. Born in Gorval,...
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  • Soulima Stravinsky (category Swiss emigrants to the United States)
    Swiss-American pianist, composer, and musicologist. As a pianist, he was considered an important interpreter of the works of his father, Igor Stravinsky...
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  • Humphrey Searle (category Twelve-tone and serial composers)
    Cat Poems (1951/53): "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" for speaker, flute, cello and guitar and "Two Practical Cats" for speaker, flute/piccolo, cello and guitar...
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    Leonine verse (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    verses used by Edward Lear in his humorous poem "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" (1870): Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing...
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  • (1869) The Brownies, Palmer Cox (1870) At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald (1871) The Owl and the Pussy-cat, Edward Lear (1871) Through the Looking-Glass...
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    Petrushka (ballet) (category Pages using the Score extension)
    written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes...
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    The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and...
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  • (born 21 January 1953) is an Australian stage and film actress. McGregor was Lecturer in Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts from...
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    The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours...
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    revels in made-up words and ridiculous concepts. Lear's most notable poems include The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, and The Pobble Who Has No Toes...
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    Brace and Howe. OCLC 854294. Ross, Alex (2008). The Rest Is Noise. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-475-6. Smith, William Ander (1996). The Mystery...
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    Robert Craft (category The New York Review of Books people)
    compiled the libretti for Stravinsky's The Flood and A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer, and lived with Igor and Vera Stravinsky in Hollywood and later in...
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