Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist, editor and music critic. He was particularly respected...
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Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess...
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Gerald Abraham (born July 4, 1965) is a former American football player who played running back & fullback professionally for the Denver Broncos, Philadelphia...
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Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair. — Gerald Abraham, musicologist and an authority on Mussorgsky, 1945 It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's...
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the Renaissance (1300–1540) (ed. Gerald Abraham, Anselm Hughes, 1960) The Age of Humanism (1540–1630) (ed. Gerald Abraham, 1968) Opera and Church Music (1630–1750)...
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (/ˈdʒɛrəld/ JERR-əld; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the...
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associated with the name "Mighty Handful", or sometimes "The Five". Gerald Abraham stated flatly in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that "they...
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figures such as Arnold Bennett and Ralph Vaughan Williams, his colleague Gerald Abraham remarked that "he never enjoyed the influence and authority in London...
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design for the décor of a picturesque scene in the ballet Trilby." Gerald Abraham provides the following details: "Trilby or The Demon of the Heath, a...
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reply. "Eloquent pauses", in von Lenz's words. "Absurd silences", for Gerald Abraham. Barry Cooper sees it as a humorous piece, in which Beethoven "seems...
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after the premiere, views on Mussorgsky's music changed drastically. Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: "As a musical translator...
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2011, p.4 Available on You Tube Abraham, Gerald. 1947. "The Symphonies". In The Music of Sibelius, edited by Gerald Abraham. New York: W. W. Norton. British...
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Thoreau Fagundes Varela Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder William Wordsworth Gerald Abraham M. H. Abrams Donald Ault Jacques Barzun Frederick C. Beiser Ian Bent...
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University Press. pp. 348–349. Cooper, Martin (1946). "The Symphonies". In Gerald Abraham (ed.). Music of Tchaikovsky. New York: W. W. Norton. OCLC 385829. Druckenbrod...
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Clapham (1972), pp. 28–30 Large, pp. 84–94 Large, pp. 95–97 According to Gerald Abraham, Smetana had met Cornelius at Weimar two years previously, while the...
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for his stage pageant in a comparable way to Humperdinck in Hansel. Gerald Abraham, on the other hand, praises the vivid humanity and humour of Rimsky's...
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even banned Scriabin's music from broadcasts in the 1930s. In 1935, Gerald Abraham called Scriabin a "sad pathological case, erotic and egotistic to the...
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ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Abraham, Gerald, Studies in Russian Music (London: William Reeves/The New Temple Press, 1936). ISBN n/a. Abraham, Gerald. Rimsky-Korsakov:...
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6 as a synthesis of many influences, or as the focus of just a few. Gerald Abraham writes, "...he had recognizable affinities with all three of the principal...
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Combe won the tournament ahead of several strong masters, including Gerald Abrahams, William Winter, Harry Golombek and Stuart Milner-Barry. He was the...
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analysed in many different ways. Sibelian scholars – Cecil Gray (1935), Gerald Abraham (1947), Simon Parmet (1955), Robert Layton (1965), and James Hepokoski...
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conductor Denis Vaughan c. 1960. More recently, British musicologists Gerald Abraham and Brian Newbould have also offered completions of the symphony (scherzo...
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where Craig Burnett threw for 3,131 yards with 21 TD vs 16 INT and Gerald Abraham ran for 1,305 yards with 13 TD. In 1988, Randy Welniak threw for 2,791...
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became the leading genre among his chamber music. The musicologist Gerald Abraham has remarked that in terms of their style and aesthetic value the string...
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by lectures and other appropriate instruction". The first holder was Gerald Abraham, who had been director of the BBC's Gramophone Department. The chair...
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Protection Program. Gerald Shur was born on October 18, 1933, in The Bronx, New York, the son of Rose (Nissell) Shur, a homemaker, and, Abraham, general manager...
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List of Works, p. 279 ed. Abraham, Gerald, Music of Tchaikovsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1946). ISBN n/a. Abraham, Gerald, "Operas and Incidental...
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Music of Tchaikovsky (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1946), ed. Gerald Abraham. ISBN n/a. Tchaikovsky Research MP3 files of excerpts from the 4 movements...
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expressiveness, Taneyev's music could also show a whimsical streak. Gerald Abraham writes, "Taneyev had a dual nature rather like Lewis Carroll's, half...
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physicist Emanuel M. Abrahams (1866–1913), American businessman and politician Esther Abrahams (1771–1846), English criminal Gerald Abrahams (1907–1980), British...
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