Parent	Taylor & Francis
Founded	1851
Founder	George Routledge
Country	United Kingdom
Headquarters	London
Publications	Books, journals
Topics	humanities and social sciences
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Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge, who issued his first published book under contracted licence in 1836. He later founded a publishing company in partnership in 1851 with his brother-in-law, first formally incorporated under the name George Routledge & Co. For the remainder of the century the firm continued to grow and expand its range of popular illustrated fiction, travel and reference titles, undergoing some further partnership and name changes in the process. However by 1902 the company was running close to bankruptcy, but following a successful restructuring was able to recover and began to acquire and merge with other publishing companies. These early 20th-century acquisitions and mergers brought with them lists of notable scholarly titles, and it is from 1912 onwards as Routledge & Kegan Paul that the company became increasingly concentrated on and involved with the academic and scholarly publishing arena. It was soon particularly known for its titles in the social sciences fields.

In 1985 Routledge & Kegan Paul joined with Associated Book Publishers (ABP), which was later acquired by International Thomson in 1987. Under Thomson's ownership Routledge's name and operations were retained, and in 1996 a management buyout financed by the European private equity firm Cinven saw Routledge operating as an independent concern once more. Two years later in 1998 Cinven and Routledge's directors accepted a deal for Routledge's acquisition by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F;), with the Routledge name being retained as an imprint and subdivision. In 2004 T&F; became a division within Informa plc after a merger; Routledge continues as a publishing arm and imprint under the T&F; division, with a majority of its titles' range issued as academic humanities and social sciences books.

History

As a name in Camden publishing, it originates in 1836, when George Routledge (1812–1888) founded a firm with W. H. Warne. George Routledge and Co. was set up in 1851 with Frederick Warne, becoming Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1858, and George Routledge and Sons when Warne left. After refinancing in 1902, the company took over J. C. Nimmo Ltd in 1903. In 1912 an amalgamation with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. created Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., a major London publishing house. Taylor & Francis bought Routledge in 1998.

People

The famous English publisher Fredric Warburg was a commissioning editor at Routledge during the early 20th century.

Encyclopedia

Taylor and Francis closed down the Routledge encyclopedia division in 2006. Some of its publications were:

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Edward Craig (1998) in 10 volumes, but now online

Encyclopedia of Ethics by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (2002) in three volumes.

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy

Encyclopedia of Paleontology by Ronald Singer (1987)

List of the journals published by the company

See also

Environmental politics

Notes

References

External links

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Routledge – The International Who's Who

Routledge – The Europa World of Learning

Routledge – History of the Routledges and Their Origins

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Name	Patricia Routledge
Birth name	Katherine Patricia Routledge
Birth date	February 17, 1929
Birth place	Tranmere, Birkenhead, England
Education	Mersey Park Primary SchoolBirkenhead High School
Alma mater	University of Liverpool
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1952–present

Katherine Patricia Routledge, CBE (born 17 February 1929) is an English theatre, television, and film actress and singer. She is best known for her roles on British television, most notably as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. In addition to her roles in British television, she has a long and successful career in musical theatre, as well as in film. She has never married and has no children and currently resides in Chichester, West Sussex.

Early life and education

Katherine Patricia Routledge was born in Tranmere, Birkenhead to parents Catherine and Isaac Routledge. She was educated at Mersey Park Primary School, Birkenhead High School, an independent girls' school, and the University of Liverpool. At Liverpool she was an English major and was not on a path to pursue an acting career. She was, however, involved in the school's Dramatic Society where she worked closely with the academic Edmund Colledge who both directed and acted in several of the society's productions. It was Colledge who pursuaded her to pursue an acting career. After graduating from Liverpool, she trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and launched her acting career at the Liverpool Playhouse.

Theatre

Routledge has had a prolific career in theatre, particularly musical theatre, in the UK and the US. She has been a long-standing member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), appearing in such acclaimed productions as the 1983 Richard III, which starred Anthony Sher, who played the title role on crutches. Her West End credits include Little Mary Sunshine, Cowardy Custard, Virtue in Danger, Noises Off, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Solid Gold Cadillac, as well as a number of less successful vehicles. A classically trained singer, she has occassionally made forays into operetta; including portraying the title role in an acclaimed production of Jacques Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein at the 1978 Camden Festival.

Routledge made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1968 musical Darling of the Day, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, sharing the honour with Leslie Uggams of Hallelujah, Baby!. Following Darling of the Day, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey, based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.

In 1980, Routledge played Ruth in the Joseph Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance co-starring American actor Kevin Kline and pop vocalist Linda Ronstadt, at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park, one of the series of Shakespeare in the Park summer events. The show was a hit and transferred to Broadway the following January, but Estelle Parsons replaced Routledge. A DVD of the Central Park production, with Routledge, was released in October 2002.

In 1988 Routledge won a Laurence Olivier Award for her portrayal of the Old Lady in Leonard Bernstein's Candide in the London cast of the critically acclaimed Scottish Opera production. She played the role of Nettie Fowler to great acclaim in the 1993 London production of Carousel. In a 2006 Hampstead Theatre production of The Best of Friends, based on a book by Hugh Whitemore, she portrayed Dame Laurentia McLachlan, OSB. The play focused on her friendships with Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw. In 2008 she played Queen Mary in Royce Ryton's play Crown Matrimonial.

More recent work includes the narrator in The Carnival of the Animals with the Nash Ensemble.

Film and television

Routledge's screen credits include To Sir, with Love (1967), Pretty Polly (1967), The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968), and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).

Routledge's early television appearances included a role in Steptoe and Son, in the episode "Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" (1974) as a clairvoyant called Madame Fontana. She also appeared in Coronation Street, and as a white witch in Doctor at Large (1971). However, she did not come to prominence on television until she featured in monologues written for her by Alan Bennett from 1978 (A Visit from Miss Protheroe) and later Victoria Wood in the 1980s. She first appeared in Alan Bennett's A Woman of No Importance in 1982, and then as the opinionated Kitty in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV in 1985. She performed two further monologues in Bennett's Talking Heads in 1987 and 1998.

In 1990, Routledge landed the role of Hyacinth Bucket in the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. She portrayed a former working-class woman with social pretensions (insisting her surname be pronounced "bouquet") and delusions of grandeur (her oft-mentioned "candlelight suppers"). Routledge delighted in portraying Hyacinth as she claimed she couldn't stand people like her in real life. In 1991 she won a British Comedy Award for her portrayal, and she was later nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards in 1992 and 1993. The series ended at Routledge's request in 1995.

In 1995, Routledge accepted the lead in another long-running series, playing Hetty Wainthropp in the mystery drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, co-starring rising star Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and Derek Benfield as her husband. It first aired in January 1996, and ran until the autumn of 1998, with one special episode in 1999.

She has also played several real-life characters on television including Barbara Pym and Hildegard of Bingen.

In 2001, Routledge starred in Anybody's Nightmare, a fact-based television drama in which she played a piano teacher who served four years in prison for murdering her elderly aunt, but was acquitted following a retrial.

Radio and audio books

Routledge's extensive radio credits include several Alan Bennett plays and the BBC dramatisation of Carole Hayman's Ladies of Letters, in which she and Prunella Scales play retired women exchanging humorous correspondence over the course of several years. A tenth series of Ladies of Letters premiered on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

Having a distinctive voice, Routledge has also recorded and released a variety of audiobooks including unabridged readings of Wuthering Heights and Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and abridged novelisations of the Hetty Wainthropp series.

In 1966 she sang the role of Mad Margaret in Ruddigore, the title role in Iolanthe, and Melissa in Princess Ida, in a series of BBC radio Gilbert and Sullivan recordings. She took part in a studio broadcast of Tchaikovsky's opera Vakula the Smith (narrating excerpts from the work by Gogol) in 1990. In 2006 she was featured in a programme of the 'Stage and Screen' series on Radio 3.

She was appointed OBE in 1993, and CBE in 2004.

References

External links

selected performances in Theatre Archive University of Bristol

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Playername	Wayne Routledge
Fullname	Wayne Neville Anthony Routledge
Height
Dateofbirth	January 07, 1985
Cityofbirth	Sidcup, London
Countryofbirth	England
Currentclub	Newcastle United
Clubnumber	10
Position	Winger
Youthclubs1	Crystal Palace
Years1	2001–2005
Clubs1	Crystal Palace
Caps1	110
Goals1	10
Years2	2005–2008
Clubs2	Tottenham Hotspur
Caps2	5
Goals2	0
Years3	2006
Clubs3	→ Portsmouth (loan)
Caps3	13
Goals3	0
Years4	2006–2007
Clubs4	→ Fulham (loan)
Caps4	24
Goals4	0
Years5	2008–2009
Clubs5	Aston Villa
Caps5	2
Goals5	0
Years6	2008–2009
Clubs6	→ Cardiff City (loan)
Caps6	9
Goals6	2
Years7	2009–2010
Clubs7	Queens Park Rangers
Caps7	44
Goals7	3
Years8	2010–
Clubs8	Newcastle United
Caps8	34
Goals8	3
Nationalyears1	2004–2007
Nationalteam1	England U21
Nationalcaps1	12
Nationalgoals1	1
Pcupdate	17:30, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Ntupdate	22:22, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Wayne Neville Anthony Routledge (born 7 January 1985) is an English footballer who plays for Newcastle United. He plays as a midfielder predominantly on the right wing but can also play on the left. He has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level. Routledge remains the only player to have played for six different Premier League clubs, having failed to score a goal in the Premier League.

Career

Crystal Palace

Born in Sidcup, Greater London, Routledge began his career at Crystal Palace, making his starting debut against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the age of 17 in September 2002, and scoring after just one minute on the field. He made his Palace debut in October 2001 in a 1–0 home defeat by West Bromwich Albion, aged only 16. He was England's second ever player to score at the new Wembley Stadium.

He was an important member of the side which won promotion to the Premiership via the play-offs in 2003-04, and he was ever present as Palace battled for their Premiership place in 2004-05 and, although they just failed to avoid the drop, Routledge proved to be an exciting talent on the wing and up front, chipping in with an impressive 8 assists. He was not to leave the top flight, though. After rejecting a contract with the side that developed him as a youngster in January, Spurs snapped him up on 1 July 2005. The clubs could not come to an agreement over a fee for Routledge so the transfer went to a tribunal. There it was agreed that Palace would receive an initial £1.25m, rising to £2m depending upon appearances in future.

Tottenham Hotspur

After impressing in the pre-season, His career at White Hart Lane started slowly as he unfortunately suffered a broken foot on his league debut for the club, but on 12 December 2005 he made his return as a substitute in only his second game for Spurs against Portsmouth.

He was loaned to Portsmouth in the January 2006 transfer window and made 13 appearances for them before returning to Spurs at the season's end. Routledge impressed Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp in a home game against Bolton Wanderers in March 2006, when, with Bolton 1–0 ahead with only three minutes left to play, Routledge - who had only just come on as a substitute - outpaced three Bolton players into the penalty box to connect with a long pass from Matt Taylor and set Azar Karadas up for a spectacular volley which levelled the match and ultimately earned relegation-threatened Portsmouth a crucial 1–1 draw, a result that began a run of good late season form for them.

After impressing in the pre-season again, he was once again loaned out on a year deal to Fulham as part of the deal that brought Steed Malbranque to Spurs. This was also partly due to the emergence of Aaron Lennon at both club and international level.

His Fulham bow came as a 34th minute replacement for injury victim Jimmy Bullard in a 2–1 victory at Newcastle United. He went on to create two goals in the final ten minutes of the match. He is most remembered during his time at Fulham for his winning goal in a thrilling FA Cup tie against Leicester City in January 2007, which ended 4-3 to Fulham.

Aston Villa

On 30 January 2008 Routledge joined Aston Villa on an 18 month contract in a deal worth £1.25 million. He scored the second goal in his reserve debut in a 6–0 away win at Derby County, played at Burton Albion's ground. He made his first-team debut on 5 April 2008 coming on as a late substitute for Stiliyan Petrov in the 86th minute in a 4–0 win against Bolton.

On 10 July 2008, Routledge was the subject of a scathing verbal attack from Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan. Jordan was giving an interview about now ex-Palace midfielder John Bostock, during which he used Routledge as an example of why he believed the youth player should not leave Palace to join Tottenham.

"When Spurs came knocking I told Wayne to stay and learn his trade at Palace, but he went, he grabbed the money, and now he's at Villa not getting in the first team, just like he didn't get in the Spurs team, just like he didn't get in the Portsmouth team and just like he didn't get in the Fulham team."

Cardiff City

In November 2008 after making just one league appearance for Aston Villa so far during the season, Routledge was allowed to join Football League Championship side Cardiff City on a two-month loan deal after the club suffered a double injury blow when both Joe Ledley and Peter Whittingham were ruled out for one and three months respectively. He made his debut for the club on 22 November in a 2-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle during which he supplied the through pass for Michael Chopra to score Cardiff's only goal of the game. He scored his first goal for the club in just his second game when he found the net against Reading during a 2-2 draw on 25 November. He soon found the net for a second time, this time scoring Cardiff's second goal in the 2-2 draw at Burnley.

In the lead up to the opening of the January transfer window it was revealed that Cardiff had offered a fee of around £300,000 in order to sign Routledge on a permanent deal. The transfer was expected to be completed prior to the clubs FA Cup third round match against Reading on 3 January, but the day before Routledge rejected the deal and was subsequently recalled from his loan spell.

Queens Park Rangers

On the same day that his loan spell at Cardiff was terminated, Routledge signed a 3 and a half year deal at rival Championship side Queens Park Rangers for a fee of £600,000, saying that he was "thrilled" to join. Routledge made his debut in a 1-1 draw with Coventry City on 10 January. Routledge then scored in his very next game against Derby County on Nigel Clough's first game in charge, and his first away game for QPR.

His performance further improved in a Carling Cup tie against Exeter on 11 August 2009, when Routledge scored a second half hat trick. He also scored a late goal against Accrington Stanley to seal a second round Carling Cup victory.

Newcastle United

On 26 January 2010 Routledge signed for Newcastle United for an undisclosed fee, on a three and a half year deal, and wears the number 10 shirt. He made his debut for Newcastle a day later coming on for Peter Løvenkrands in a 2-0 win over former club Crystal Palace and assisted Nile Ranger the second goal of the game. Routledge scored his first goal for Newcastle in the Championship match against Coventry City with a fine volley from 30 yards out to bring the match to 1-1, Newcastle having previously gone behind. He was later awarded a penalty for Newcastle after being brought down by Leon Barnett, which Løvenkrands put into the back of the net. The match finished in a 4-1 win for Newcastle United. He netted his second goal for the club against Blackpool, getting the final goal in yet another 4-1 win. Routledge scored his third goal on 19 April 2010, rounding the Argyle goalkeeper to slot home, as Newcastle beat Plymouth away to secure the Championship title.

Due to his good form in the side, he kept his place for Newcastle's opening games of the Premier League. He started Newcastle's opening five games on the wide right of midfield, in an unchanged side which saw them pick up seven points from the first five games and climb to 5th in the table on 18 September 2010. Routledge lost his place however and found himself serving bench duty. Starting with a 2-1 win over West Ham United in October, the form of Joey Barton wide on the right and Cheick Tioté and Kevin Nolan in the middle ensured Routledge was kept out once more. Newcastle won in the two following weeks, destroying rivals Sunderland 5-1 and making a shock victory away to Arsenal. As the form of the side deteroriated, Routledge returned on 27 November in the 1-1 draw with Chelsea.

International career

Routledge has represented England at under-16, under-19 and under-21 level.

Routledge made 12 appearances for the Under-21's between 2004 and 2007 and was part of the England squad that made the Semi Final of the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in the Netherlands, when England lost 13–12 on penalties to the Netherlands Under-21's after it finished 1–1 after extra time.

Club career statistics

:(correct as of 8 January 2011)

Honours

Newcastle United

Football League Championship Winners: Promotion to the FA Premier League: 2009–2010

References

External links

Wayne Routledge profile at the Queens Park Rangers website

Wayne Routledge Official Website at Icons.com

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Leonard Bernstein (, ;

Biography

Early life

Louis Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Ukrainian Jewish parents Jennie (née Resnick) and Samuel Joseph Bernstein, a hair-dressing supplies wholesaler originating from Rovno (now Ukraine). He was not related to film composer Elmer Bernstein. His family spent their summers at their vacation home in Sharon, Massachusetts. His grandmother insisted that his first name be Louis, but his parents always called him Leonard, because they liked the name more. He had his name changed to Leonard officially when he was fifteen, shortly after his grandmother's death.

His father, Sam Bernstein, was a businessman and owner of a bookstore in downtown Lawrence; it is standing today on the corners of Amesbury and Essex Streets. Sam initially opposed young Leonard's interest in music. Despite this, the elder Bernstein frequently took him to orchestra concerts. At a very young age, Bernstein listened to a piano performance and was immediately captivated; he subsequently began learning the piano. As a child, Bernstein attended the Garrison Grammar School and Boston Latin School.

After graduation from Boston Latin School in 1935, Bernstein attended Harvard University, where he studied music with Walter Piston, the author of many harmony and counterpoint textbooks, and was briefly associated with the Harvard Glee Club. One of his friends at Harvard was philosopher Donald Davidson, with whom he played piano four hands. Bernstein wrote and conducted the musical score for the production Davidson mounted of Aristophanes' play The Birds in the original Greek. Bernstein reused some of this music in the ballet Fancy Free.

After completing his studies at Harvard, he enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he received the only "A" grade Fritz Reiner ever awarded in his class on conducting. During his time at Curtis, Bernstein also studied piano with Isabelle Vengerova, orchestration with Randall Thompson, counterpoint with Richard Stöhr, and score reading with Renée Longy Miquelle.

Early career

During his young adult years in New York City, Bernstein enjoyed an exuberant social life that included relationships with both men and women. After a long internal struggle and a turbulent on-and-off engagement, he married Chilean actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre on September 10, 1951, reportedly in order to increase his chances of obtaining the chief conducting position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic and Bernstein's mentor, advised him that marrying would help counter the gossip about him and appease the conservative BSO board.

Leonard and Felicia had three children, Jamie, Alexander, and Nina. During his married life, Bernstein tried to be as discreet as possible with his extramarital liaisons. But as he grew older, and as the Gay Liberation movement made great strides, Bernstein became more emboldened, eventually leaving Felicia to live with his lover, Tom Cothran. Some time after, Bernstein learned that his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer. Bernstein moved back in with his wife and cared for her until she died on June 16, 1978.

Bernstein's sexuality has been a matter of speculation and debate. Arthur Laurents (Bernstein's collaborator in West Side Story) said that Bernstein was "a gay man who got married. He wasn't conflicted about it at all. He was just gay." Shirley Rhoades Perle, another friend of Bernstein's, said that she thought "he required men sexually and women emotionally." It has been suggested that Bernstein was actually bisexual, an assertion supported by comments that Bernstein himself made about not preferring any particular cuisine, musical genre, or form of sex.

1940–1950

In 1940, Bernstein began his study at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer institute, Tanglewood, under the orchestra's conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. Bernstein later became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant. He would later dedicate his Symphony No. 2 to Koussevitzky.

On November 14, 1943, having recently been appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, he made his conducting debut on last-minute notification—and without any rehearsal—after Bruno Walter came down with the flu. The next day, The New York Times editorial remarked, "It's a good American success story. The warm, friendly triumph of it filled Carnegie Hall and spread far over the air waves." He became instantly famous because the concert was nationally broadcast. The soloist for that concert was Joseph Schuster, solo cellist of the New York Philharmonic, who played Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Because Bernstein had never conducted the work before, Bruno Walter coached him on it prior to the concert. It is possible to hear this concert thanks to a transcription recording made from the CBS radio broadcast that has since been issued on CD.

After World War II, Bernstein's career on the international stage began to flourish. In 1946, he conducted opera for the first time, with the American première of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, which had been a Koussevitzky commission. That same year, Arturo Toscanini invited Bernstein to guest conduct two concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, one of which featured Bernstein as soloist in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. In 1949, he conducted the world première of the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen, in Boston, and when Koussevitzky died two years later, Bernstein became head of the orchestral and conducting departments at Tanglewood, holding this position for many years.

1951–1959

In 1951, Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in the world première of the Symphony No. 2 of Charles Ives. The composer, old and frail, was unable to attend the concert, but listened to the broadcast on the radio with his wife, Harmony. Both of them marveled at the enthusiastic reception of this symphony, which had actually been written between 1897 and 1901, but had never been performed. Throughout his career, Bernstein did much to promote the music of this American composer. Ives died in 1954. Bernstein was also a visiting music professor in the early 1950s and was the founder/head of the Creative Arts Festivals at Brandeis University from 1952 onward. The festival was named after him in 2005, becoming the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.

Bernstein was named the principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1957, replacing Dimitri Mitropoulos, and began his tenure in that position in 1958, a post he held until 1969, although he continued to conduct and make recordings with that orchestra for the rest of his life. He became a well-known figure in the United States through his series of fifty-three televised Young People's Concerts for CBS, which grew out of his Omnibus programs that CBS aired in the early 1950s. His first Young People's Concert was televised a few weeks after his tenure as principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic began. He became as famous for his educational work in those concerts as for his conducting. The Bernstein Young People's Concerts were the first, and still are the most successful, series of music appreciation programs ever done on television, and were highly acclaimed by critics. Some of Bernstein's music lectures were released on records, with several of these albums winning Grammy awards.

The Young People's Concerts series remains the longest-running single group of classical music programs shown on commercial television. They ran from 1958 to 1973, and none of the programs were repeated on television during the series' original run (there would usually be four programs per year). More than thirty years later, twenty-five of them were rebroadcast on the now-defunct cable channel Trio and were released on DVD by Kultur Video.

In 1947, Bernstein conducted in Tel Aviv for the first time, beginning a life-long association with Israel. In 1957, he conducted the inaugural concert of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv; he subsequently made many recordings there. In 1967, he conducted a concert on Mt. Scopus to commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem. During the 1970s, Bernstein recorded most of his own symphonic music with the Israel Philharmonic.

The beginning of Bernstein's collaboration with the choreographer Jerome Robbins and the writer Arthur Laurents dates from 1949; later they were joined by Stephen Sondheim. After years of intermittent work West Side Story received its Broadway premiere in 1957; a musical that was to prove Bernstein's most enduring work.

In 1959, he took the New York Philharmonic on a tour of Europe and the Soviet Union, portions of which were filmed by CBS. A highlight of the tour was Bernstein's performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, in the presence of the composer, who came on stage at the end to congratulate Bernstein and the musicians. In October, when Bernstein and the orchestra returned to New York, they recorded the symphony for Columbia. He made two recordings of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, one with the New York Philharmonic in the 1960s and another one in 1988 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the only recording he ever made with them (along with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, also recorded live in concerts at Orchestra Hall in Chicago at that time).

1960–1969

In 1960, Bernstein began the first complete cycle of recordings in stereo of all nine completed symphonies by Gustav Mahler, with the blessing of the composer's widow, Alma. The success of these recordings, along with Bernstein's concert performances, revived interest in Mahler, who had briefly been music director of the New York Philharmonic late in his life. That same year, Bernstein conducted an LP of his own score for the 1944 musical On The Town, in stereo, the first such recording of the score ever made, for Columbia Masterworks Records. Unlike his later recordings of his own musicals, this was originally issued as a single LP rather than a 2-record set. It was later issued on CD. The recording featured several members of the original Broadway cast, including Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

In one storied incident, in April 1962, Bernstein appeared on stage before a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor. The soloist was the pianist Glenn Gould. During rehearsals, Gould had argued for tempi much broader than normal, which did not reflect Bernstein's concept of the music. Bernstein gave a brief address to the audience stating,

Don't be frightened; Mr. Gould is here (audience laughter). He will appear in a moment. I'm not—um—as you know in the habit of speaking on any concert except the Thursday-night previews, but a curious situation has arisen, which merits, I think, a word or two. You are about to hear a rather, shall we say, unorthodox performance of the Brahms D Minor Concerto, a performance distinctly different from any I've ever heard, or even dreamt of for that matter, in its remarkably broad tempi and its frequent departures from Brahms' dynamic indications. I cannot say I am in total agreement with Mr. Gould's conception, and this raises the interesting question: "What am I doing conducting it?" (mild laughter from the audience). I'm conducting it because Mr. Gould is so valid and serious an artist that I must take seriously anything he conceives in good faith, and his conception is interesting enough that I feel you should hear it, too.

But the age old question still remains: "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter)—the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder). The answer is, of course, sometimes the one and sometimes the other, depending on the people involved. But almost always, the two manage to get together by persuasion or charm or even threats (audience laughs) to achieve a unified performance. I have only once before in my life had to submit to a soloist's wholly new and incompatible concept and that was the last time I accompanied Mr. Gould (audience laughs loudly). But, but this time, the discrepancies between our views are so great that I feel I must make this small disclaimer. Then why, to repeat the question, am I conducting it? Why do I not make a minor scandal—get a substitute soloist, or let an assistant conduct it?

Because I am fascinated, glad to have the chance for a new look at this much-played work; because, what's more, there are moments in Mr. Gould's performance that emerge with astonishing freshness and conviction. Thirdly, because we can all learn something from this extraordinary artist who is a thinking performer, and finally because there is in music what Dimitri Mitropoulos used to call "the sportive element" (mild audience laughter) —that factor of curiosity, adventure, experiment—and I can assure you that it has been an adventure this week (audience laughter) collaborating with Mr. Gould on this Brahms concerto, and it's in this spirit of adventure that we now present it to you.

This speech was subsequently interpreted by Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for The New York Times, as abdication of personal responsibility and an attack on Gould, whose performance Schonberg went on to criticize heavily. Bernstein always denied that this had been his intent and has stated that he made these remarks with Gould's blessing. Throughout his life, he professed admiration and personal friendship for Gould.

While New York Philharmonic director, Bernstein was responsible for introducing the symphonies of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen to American audiences, leading to a revival of interest in this composer whose reputation had previously been mostly regional. Bernstein recorded three of Nielsen's symphonies (Nos. 2, 4, and 5) with the Philharmonic, and he recorded the composer's 3rd Symphony with a Danish orchestra after a critically acclaimed public performance in Denmark.

In 1966, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera conducting Luchino Visconti's production of Verdi's Falstaff, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff. In 1970, he returned to the State Opera for Otto Schenk's production of Beethoven's Fidelio. Sixteen years later, at the State Opera, Bernstein conducted his sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, A Quiet Place. Bernstein's final farewell to the State Opera happened accidentally in 1989: following a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, he unexpectedly entered the stage and embraced conductor Claudio Abbado in front of a cheering audience.

1970–1979

Beginning in 1970, Bernstein conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, re-recording many pieces previously undertaken with the New York Philharmonic, including the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann. Some of the Mahler symphony recordings from Bernstein's second cycle for Deutsche Grammophone were also made with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Later that year, Bernstein wrote and narrated a ninety-minute program filmed on location in and around Vienna, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic with such artists as Plácido Domingo, who in his first television appearance performed as the tenor soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The program, first telecast in 1970 on Austrian and British television, and then on CBS on Christmas Eve 1971, was intended as a celebration of Beethoven's 200th birthday. The show made extensive use of the rehearsals and finished performance of the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio. Originally entitled Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna, the show, which won an Emmy, was telecast only once on U.S. commercial television, and it remained in CBS's vaults until it resurfaced on A&E; shortly after Bernstein's death, under the new title Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna. It was immediately issued on VHS under that title, and in 2005 it was issued on DVD.

Bernstein's political life received substantial press coverage at the beginning of the decade due to a gathering hosted at his 13-room Upper East Side Manhattan apartment in January 1970. Bernstein and his wife held the event seeking to raise awareness and money for the defense of several members of the Black Panther Party against a variety of charges. The New York Times initially covered the gathering as a lifestyle item, but later posted an editorial harshly unfavorable to Bernstein following generally negative reaction to the widely publicized story. This reaction culminated in June 1970 with the appearance of "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's", an essay by satirist Tom Wolfe featured on the cover of New York. The magazine article included prose and photographs that contrasted the Bernsteins' comfortable lifestyle in one of the world's most expensive neighborhoods with the anti-establishment politics of the Black Panthers and lead to the popularization of "radical chic" as a critical term. Both Bernstein and his wife Felicia responded to the criticism, arguing that they were motivated not by a shallow desire to express fashionable sympathy but by their concern for civil liberties.

The world premiere of Bernstein's MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers occurred on September 8, 1971. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. it was partly intended as an anti-war statement. Hastily written in places, the work represented a fusion not only of different religious traditions (its texts juxtapose the Latin liturgy with Hebrew prayer and plenty of contemporary English lyrics) but also of different musical styles. Originally a target of criticism from the Catholic Church on the one hand and contemporary music critics who objected to its Broadway/populist elements on the other, the MASS has however since been embraced by the church. It was performed at Vatican City in 2000.

In 1972, he recorded a performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Marilyn Horne in the title role and James McCracken as Don Jose, after leading several stage performances of the opera. The recording was one of the first in stereo to use the original spoken dialogue between the sung portions of the opera, rather than the musical recitatives that were composed by Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death.

Bernstein was invited in 1973 to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair as Professor of Poetry at his alma mater, Harvard University, to deliver a series of six lectures on music. Borrowing the title from a Charles Ives work, he called the series "The Unanswered Question"; it is a set of interdisciplinary lectures in which he borrows terminology from contemporary linguistics to analyze and compare musical construction to language. Three years later, in 1976, the series of videotaped lectures was telecast on PBS. The lectures survive in both book and DVD form. Noam Chomsky wrote in 2007 on the Znet forums about the linguistic aspects of the lecture: "I spent some time with Bernstein during the preparation and performance of the lectures. My feeling was that he was onto something, but I couldn't really judge how significant it was."

In 1978, the Otto Schenk Fidelio, with Bernstein still conducting, but featuring a different cast, was filmed by Unitel. Like the program Bernstein on Beethoven, it was shown on A&E; after his death and subsequently issued on VHS. Although the video has long been out of print, it was released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in late 2006.

In May 1978, the Israel Philharmonic played two U.S. concerts under his direction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra under that name. On consecutive nights, the Orchestra performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

In 1979, Bernstein conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the first and only time, in two charity concerts. The performance, of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, was broadcast on radio and was posthumously released on CD.

1980–1990

Bernstein received the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1980.

On PBS in the 1980s, he was the conductor and commentator for a special series on Beethoven's music, which featured the Vienna Philharmonic playing all nine Beethoven symphonies, several of his overtures, one of the string quartets arranged for the full string section of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Missa Solemnis. Actor Maximilian Schell was also featured on the program, reading from Beethoven's letters. This series has since been released on DVD.

In 1982, he and Ernest Fleischmann founded the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, where he served as Artistic Director through 1984.

Leonard Bernstein was a regular guest conductor of The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. In the 1980s, he recorded, among other pieces, Mahler's First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Symphonies with them.

In 1985, he conducted a complete recording of his score for West Side Story for the first and only time. The recording, much criticized for featuring what critics felt were miscast opera singers such as Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, and Tatiana Troyanos in the leading roles, was nevertheless a national bestseller.

In 1989, Bernstein again conducted and recorded another complete performance of one of his musicals, again featuring opera singers rather than Broadway stars. This time it was Candide, and because the show was always intended to be an operetta, the recording made from it was much more warmly received. The performance was released posthumously on CD (in 1991). It starred Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Adolph Green, and Christa Ludwig in the leading roles. The Candide recording, unlike the West Side Story one, included previously discarded numbers from the show.

A TV documentary of the West Side Story recording sessions was made in 1985, and the Candide recording was made live, in concert. This concert was eventually telecast posthumously.

On Christmas Day, December 25, 1989, Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in East Berlin's Schauspielhaus (Playhouse) as part of a celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The concert was broadcast live in more than twenty countries to an estimated audience of 100 million people. For the occasion, Bernstein reworded Friedrich Schiller's text of the Ode to Joy, substituting the word Freiheit (freedom) for Freude (joy). Bernstein, in the introduction to the program, said that they had "taken the liberty" of doing this because of a "most likely phony" story, apparently believed in some quarters, that Schiller wrote an "Ode to Freedom" that is now presumed lost. Bernstein's comment was, "I'm sure that Beethoven would have given us his blessing."

Bernstein conducted his final performance at Tanglewood on August 19, 1990, with the Boston Symphony playing Benjamin Britten's "Four Sea Interludes" from Peter Grimes, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. He suffered a coughing fit in the middle of the Beethoven performance which almost caused the concert to break down. The concert was later issued on CD by Deutsche Grammophon.

He died of pneumonia and a pleural tumor just five days after retiring. A longtime heavy smoker, he had battled emphysema from his mid-50s. On the day of his funeral procession through the streets of Manhattan, construction workers removed their hats and waved, yelling "Goodbye, Lenny." Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

Influence

Bernstein was highly regarded as a conductor among many musicians, including the members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, evidenced by his honorary membership; the London Symphony Orchestra, of which he was President; and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he appeared regularly as guest conductor. He was considered especially accomplished with the works of Gustav Mahler; with his own compositions; and with American composers Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, William Schuman, and George Gershwin. His recordings of Rhapsody in Blue (full-orchestra version) and An American in Paris with the Philharmonic, released in 1959, are considered definitive by many, although for reasons unknown Bernstein always cut the Rhapsody slightly. Unfortunately, he never conducted a performance of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, nor did he ever conduct Porgy and Bess. However, he did discuss Porgy in his article, Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?, originally published in The New York Times and later reprinted in his 1959 book The Joy of Music.

Bernstein influenced many conductors who are performing now, such as Marin Alsop, Alexander Frey, John Mauceri, Seiji Ozawa, Carl St.Clair, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Ozawa made his first network television debut as the guest conductor on one of the Young People's Concerts.

Recordings

Bernstein recorded extensively from the 1950s until just a few months before his death. Aside from a few early recordings in the mid-1940s for RCA Victor, Bernstein recorded primarily for Columbia Masterworks Records, especially when he was music director of the New York Philharmonic. Many of these performances have been digitally remastered and reissued by Sony as part of the "Royal Edition" and "Bernstein Century" series. His later recordings (1976 onwards) were mostly made for Deutsche Grammophon, though he would occasionally return to the Columbia Masterworks label. Notable exceptions include recordings of Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth and Mozart's 15th piano concerto and "Linz" symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Decca Records (1966); Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (1976) for EMI; and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1981) for Philips Records, a label joint with Deutsche Grammophon as PolyGram at that time.

In August 2008, Sony BMG Masterworks released a 10-disc set of Bernstein's recordings of his own works as a composer, The Original Jacket Collection: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein, which heralds the Bernstein Festival and the Bernstein Mass Project. Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic's three-month program of events, entitled Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds, pays tribute to each aspect of Bernstein's legacy with 50 concerts and education events. 2008 also marked the 65th anniversary of Bernstein's historic Carnegie Hall debut.

Works

Ballet

Fancy Free, 1944

Facsimile- Choreographic Essay for Orchestra, 1946

Dybbuk (ballet), 1974

Opera

Trouble in Tahiti, 1952

Candide, 1956 (new libretto in 1973, operetta revised in 1989)

A Quiet Place, 1983

Musicals

On The Town, 1944

Wonderful Town, 1953

West Side Story, 1957

The Race to Urga (incomplete), 1969

"By Bernstein" (a Revue), 1975

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976

The Madwoman of Central Park West, (contributed to) 1979

Incidental Music & Other Theatre

Peter Pan, 1950

The Lark, 1955

''The Firstborn, 1958

Mass (theatre piece for singers, players and dancers), 1971

Film Scores

On the Town, 1949

On the Waterfront, 1954

West Side Story, 1961

Orchestral

Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, 1942

Fancy Free and Three Dance Variations from "Fancy Free,", concert premiere 1946

Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town," concert premiere 1947

Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety, (after W. H. Auden) for Piano and Orchestra, 1949 (revised in 1965)

Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion (after Plato's "Symposium"), 1954

Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble, 1949

Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront", 1955

Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story", 1961

Symphony No. 3, Kaddish, for Orchestra, Mixed Chorus, Boys' Choir, Speaker and Soprano Solo, 1963 (revised in 1977)

Dybbuk, Suites No. 1 and 2 for Orchestra, concert premieres 1975

, 1977

Three Meditations from "Mass" for Violoncello and Orchestra, 1977

''Slava! A Political Overture for Orchestra, 1977

Divertimento for Orchestra, 1980

Halil, nocturne for Solo Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute, Percussion, Harp and Strings, 1981

Concerto for Orchestra, 1989 (Originally Jubilee Games from 1986, revised in 1989)

Overture to Candide

Choral

Hashkiveinu for Cantor (tenor), Mixed Chorus and Organ, 1945

Missa Brevis for Mixed Chorus and Countertenor Solo, with Percussion, 1988

Chichester Psalms for Boy Soprano (or Countertenor), Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra, 1965 (Reduced version for Organ, Harp and Percussion)

Chamber music

Piano Trio, 1937, Boosey & Hawkes

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, 1939

Brass Music, 1959

Dance Suite, 1988

Vocal music

I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kids Songs for Soprano and Piano, 1943

Big Stuff, sung by Billie Holiday

La Bonne Cuisine: Four Recipes for Voice and Piano, 1948

Silhouette (Galilee), 1951

Two Love Songs, 1960

So Pretty, 1968

Piccola Serenata, 1988

Arias and Barcarolles for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone and Piano four-hands, 1988

Piano Music

Music for Two Pianos, 1937

Piano Sonata, 1938

7 Anniversaries, 1944

4 Anniversaries, 1948

5 Anniversaries, 1952

Bridal Suite, 1960

Moby Diptych, 1981 (republished as Anniversaries nos. 1 and 2 in Thirteen Anniversaries)

Touches, 1981

13 Anniversaries, 1988

Other music

Other occasional works, written as gifts and other forms of memorial and tribute

"The Skin of Our Teeth": An aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms"

"Simhu Na" (arrangement of traditional song)

"Waltz for Mippy III" for Tuba and Piano

"Elegy for Mippy II" for Trombone alone

"Elegy for Mippy I" for Horn and Piano

"Rondo for Lifey" for Trumpet and Piano

"Fanfare for Bima" for Brass Quartet: a piece composed in 1947 as a birthday tribute to Koussevitzky (Tanglewood) using the tune Koussevitzky whistled to call his cocker spaniel

Bibliography

Bernstein, Leonard. [1976] The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-92001-5.

Videography

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard. West Long Branch, New Jersey: Kultur Video. VHS ISBN 1561275700. DVD ISBN 0769715702. (videotape of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures given at Harvard in 1973.)

Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. West Long Branch, New Jersey: Kultur Video. DVD ISBN 0769715036.

Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna/Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1. West Long Branch, Kultur Video. DVD

Leonard Bernstein: Omnibus - The Historic TV Broadcasts ,2010, E1 Ent.

Bernstein: Reflections (1978), Euroarts.

Awards

Knight Grand Cross OMRI, 1989

Ditson Conductor's Award, 1958

Sonning Award (1965; Denmark)

George Peabody Medal - Johns Hopkins University

Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance

Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Tony Award for Best Musical

Special Tony Award

Further reading

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References

External links

Leonard Bernstein official site

Discography

The Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress Music Division

Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks

Bernstein's Boston, a Harvard University research project

Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

Gay Great - Leonard Bernstein

Radical Chic, a book by Tom Wolfe describing a gathering at Bernstein's apartment of New York's social elite and the Black Panther Party.

Leonard Bernstein: A Total Embrace of Music, written by Peter Gutmann, music journalist.

Arias and Barcarolles, The Leonard Bernstein Pages

Leonard Bernstein's maximum card from Israel

Obituary, New York Times, October 15, 1990

Leonard Bernstein: American Original (HarperCollins, 2008) Chapters by Alan Rich, Paul Boyer, Carol J. Oja, Tim Page, Burton Bernstein, Jonathan Rosenberg, Joseph Horowitz, Bill McGlaughlin, James M. Keller, John Adams

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Name	Judy Cornwell
Birthname	Judy Valerie Cornwell
Birthdate	February 22, 1940
Birthplace	Hammersmith, London, England
Yearsactive	1959–present
Othername	Judy Cornwall
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	John Kelsall Parry (1960–present)
Website	http://www.judycornwell.com/

Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress best known for her role as Daisy in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

Biography

Cornwell's father served in the RAF and she grew up in Britain where she attended a convent school, before moving to Australia where her family emigrated. She has written about her childhood experiences in her autobiography Adventures of a Jelly Baby. She returned to Britain, where she became a professional dancer and comedian in her teens, working her act between the nudes at the Windmill Theatre before becoming an actress. Her long career includes roles in radio's The Navy Lark, the controversial play Oh! What A Lovely War, her own TV comedy series Moody and Pegg, and several seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Movies and television

Cornwell's movie roles include (as Mrs. Claus) and Mad Cows. On television she has appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, Cakes and Ale, Bergerac, Doctor Who (the episode Paradise Towers), several episodes of Farrington of the F.O., The Famous Five, The Bill, Heartbeat, Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders. She also appeared on radio as WREN Cornwell in The Navy Lark. Judy is also appearing in BBC soap opera EastEnders as Queenie Trott, the mean tyrant mother of lovable loser Heather Trott. She is best known, however, for her portrayal of lovable working-class housewife "Daisy" in the popular sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995.

Published works

Cornwell has published a number of books, including her autobiography Adventures of a Jelly Baby (published in 2005), and several novels, including Cow and Cow Parsley in 1985, Fishcakes at the Ritz in 1989, The Seventh Sunrise in 1994, and Fear and Favour in 1996.

Personal life

Cornwell married John Kelsall Parry on December 18, 1960, and they have one child.

Her grandmother was Music Hall singer Sarah Bonner.

Television roles

Movie roles

References

External links

Official site

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Name	Clive Swift
Birthname	Clive Walter Swift
Birth date	February 09, 1936
Birth place	Liverpool, England
Occupation	Actor
Yearsactive	1965–present
Spouse	Margaret Drabble (1960–75)

Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is a British actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Bucket in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.

Swift was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Lily Rebecca (née Greenman) and Abram Sampson Swift. He was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English literature. He was previously a teacher at LAMDA and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Swift has appeared in many TV series and movies.

In the 1970s, he appeared as Doctor Black in two of the BBC's M.R. James adaptations: The Stalls of Barchester and A Warning to the Curious. He is most noted for his performance in Keeping Up Appearances, starring as Richard Bucket, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth. He also starred in the BBC adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles and appeared in the Doctor Who story Revelation of the Daleks. On 25 December 2007, he appeared in a Doctor Who Christmas special as Mr Copper. He also played Sir Ector, the adopted father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur

Swift was formerly married to novelist Margaret Drabble (1960-1975). He is the father of one daughter, Rebecca, who runs The Literary Consultancy in London's Free Word Centre and two sons, Adam Swift, an academic, and Joe Swift, a TV gardener. His brother, David Swift, is also a well-known actor.

As well as acting, he is a songwriter. Many of his songs are included in his show, Richard Bucket Overflows: An Audience with Clive Swift, which toured the UK in 2007 and Clive Swift Entertains, performing his own music and lyrics, which toured the UK in 2009.

Film

Death Line (1972)

Frenzy (1972)

The National Health (1973)

Man at the Top (1973)

Romeo and Juliet (1976)

Excalibur (1981)

A Passage to India (1984)

Othello (2004)

Television

The Old Guys as Roy

Born and Bred as Reverend Brewer

Peak Practice as Norman Shorthose

Aristocrats (TV mini-series) as King George II

Keeping Up Appearances as Richard Bucket

Doctor Who

*Revelation of the Daleks as Jobel

*Voyage of the Damned as Mr Copper

Waugh on Crime as Inspector Waugh

Beasts - "The Dummy" as Bunny

First Among Equals as Alec Pimkin

Inspector Morse - The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn as Doctor Bartlett

The Liver Birds - '' as Jim Royle

Stalls of Barchester

A Warning to the Curious

South Riding

The Pickwick Papers (1985 television series)

Radio

Oblomov as the Doctor

The Right Time

From Fact to Fiction - The Orchard as The Narrator

Measure for Measure as Escalus

Stage

Cymbeline (1962) as Cloten

Television roles

References

1976. Clayhanger ATV television series. Albert Benbow

External links

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Name	Alan Bennett
Caption	Bennett in 1973, photographed by Allan Warren
Birth date	May 09, 1934
Birth place	Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Actor, author
Years active	1960–present

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.

His output includes The Madness of George III and its film incarnation The Madness of King George, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.

Early years

Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School (in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford) and then Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unrequited love, he decided to apply for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford from which he graduated with a first-class degree in history. While at Oxford he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in the Oxford Revue. He was to remain at the university for several years, where he researched and taught Medieval History, before deciding he was not cut out to be an academic.

Career

In August 1960, Bennett, along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, and Peter Cook, achieved instant fame by appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. After the Festival, the show continued in London and New York. He also appeared in My Father Knew Lloyd George. A highly regarded television comedy sketch series On the Margin (1966) was unfortunately erased; the BBC re-used expensive videotape rather than keep it in the archives.

Around this time Bennett often found himself playing vicars and claims that as an adolescent he assumed he would grow up to be a Church of England clergyman, for no better reason than that he looked like one.

Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On directed by Patrick Garland was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting and many appearances as an actor.

Bennett's distinctive, expressive voice (which bears a strong Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed.

Many of Bennett's characters are unfortunate and downtrodden. Life has brought them to an impasse or else passed them by. In many cases they have met with disappointment in the realm of sex and intimate relationships, largely through tentativeness and a failure to connect with others.

Bennett is unsparing and compassionate in laying bare his characters' frailties. This can be seen in his television plays for LWT in the late 1970s and the BBC in the early 1980s and in the 1987 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. This was a sextet of poignantly comic pieces, each of which depicted several stages in the character's decline from an initial state of denial or ignorance of their predicament, through a slow realization of the hopelessness of their situation, progressing to a bleak or ambiguous conclusion. A second set of six Talking Heads followed a decade later, which was darker and more disturbing. In his 2005 prose collection Untold Stories Bennett has written candidly and movingly of the mental illness that afflicted his mother and other family members. Much of his work draws on his Leeds background and while he is celebrated for his acute observations of a particular type of northern speech ("It'll take more than Dairy Box to banish memories of Pearl Harbor"), the range and daring of his work is often undervalued – his television play The Old Crowd includes shots of the director and technical crew, while his stage play The Lady in the Van includes two characters named Alan Bennett.

The Lady in the Van was based on his experiences with a tramp called Miss Shepherd who lived on Bennett's driveway in several dilapidated vans for over fifteen years. A radio play of the same title was broadcast on 21 February 2009 on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself. The work has also been published in book form. Alan Bennett also adapted "The Lady in the Van" for the stage.

Bennett adapted his 1991 play The Madness of George III for the cinema. Entitled The Madness of King George (1994), the film received four Academy Award nominations, including nominations for Bennett's writing and the performances of Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren. It won the award for best art direction. Bennett's critically-acclaimed The History Boys won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, for Best New Play, Best Actor (Richard Griffiths), and Best Direction (Nicholas Hytner), having previously won Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Best Play. Bennett himself received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre. The History Boys also won six Tony Awards on Broadway, including best play, best performance by a leading actor in a play (Richard Griffiths), best performance by a featured actress in a play (Frances de la Tour), and best direction of a play (Nicholas Hytner). A film version of The History Boys was released in the UK in October 2006. Bennett discussed the play and its themes in an interview on STV.

Bennett wrote the play Enjoy in 1980. It was one of the rare flops in his career and barely scraped a run of seven weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre, in spite of the stellar cast of Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Susan Littler, Philip Sayer, Liz Smith (who replaced Joan Hickson during rehearsals) and in his first West End role Marc Sinden. It was directed by Ronald Eyre. But a new production of Enjoy has had critics raving about it during its 2008 UK tour and moved to the West End of London in January 2009. The West End show took over £1m in advance ticket sales and even extended the run to cope with demand. Starring Alison Steadman, David Troughton, Richard Glaves, Carol Macready and Josie Walker.

At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's newest play, The Habit of Art, about the relationship between the poet W. H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten.

Personal life

In September 2005, Bennett revealed that, in 1997, he had undergone treatment for cancer, and described the illness as a "bore". His chances of survival were given as being "much less" than 50%. He began Untold Stories (published 2005) thinking it would be published posthumously. In the event his cancer went into remission. In the autobiographical sketches which form a large part of the book Bennett writes openly for the first time about his homosexuality (Bennett has had relationships with women as well, although this is only touched upon in Untold Stories). Previously Bennett had referred to questions about his sexuality as being like asking a man after crawling across the Sahara desert to choose between Perrier or Malvern mineral water.

Bennett has lived in Camden Town in London for 31 years, and shares his home with Rupert Thomas, his partner for the last 14 years.

Bennett earned Honorary Membership of The Coterie in the 2007 membership list.

Gift

In October 2008 Bennett announced that he was donating his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library free of charge, stating that it was a gesture of thanks repaying a debt he felt he owed to the UK's social welfare system that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded.

Along with the other members of Beyond the Fringe, he is portrayed in the play , by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde.

Awards and honours

Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1987. He was also awarded a D.Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Kingston in 1996.

In 1998 Bennett, however refused an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, in protest at its accepting funding for a named chair in honour of press baron Rupert Murdoch. He also declined a CBE in 1988 and a knighthood in 1996.

Work

Television

My Father Knew Lloyd George (also writer), 1965

Famous Gossips, 1965

Plato—The Drinking Party, 1965

Alice in Wonderland, 1966

On the Margin series (actor & writer), 1966–67

A Day Out (also writer), 1972

Sunset Across the Bay (also writer), 1975

A Little Outing (also writer), 1975

A Visit from Miss Prothero (writer), 1978

Me—I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (writer), 1978

Doris and Doreen (Green Forms) (writer), 1978

The Old Crowd (writer) with Lindsay Anderson (director), LWT 1979

Afternoon Off (actor & writer), 1979

One Fine Day (writer), 1979

All Day On the Sands (writer), 1979

''Objects of Affection (also writer), 1982

The Merry Wives of Windsor (actor), 1982

Intensive Care (writer, actor), 1982

An Englishman Abroad (writer), 1983

The Insurance Man (writer), 1986

Breaking Up, 1986

Man and Music (narrator), 1986

''Talking Heads (also writer), 1987

The Wind in the Willows , The Willows in Winter (Mole), 1995–1996

The Story Store (Voices and Narrator), 1995

Meg and Mog (Owl)

Down Cemetery Road: The Landscape of Philip Larkin (presenter), 1987

Fortunes of War series (actor), 1987

Dinner at Noon (narrator), 1988

Poetry in Motion (presenter), 1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann (writer), 1990

A Question of Attribution (writer), 1991. Winner, BAFTA Television Awards, 1992.

Selling Hitler, 1991

Poetry in Motion 2 (presenter), 1992

A Night In (presenter), 1992

The Long Summer (narrator), 1993

Portrait or Bust (presenter), 1994

The Abbey (presenter), 1995

A Dance to the Music of Time (actor), 1997

Talking Heads 2, 1998

Telling Tales (writer, as himself), 2000

The South Bank Show (documentary), 2005

Being Alan Bennett (BBC documentary), 2009

Mark Lawson Talks To Alan Bennett (BBC, extended interview), 2009

Bennett On Bennett (5 10-minute monologues, as himself), 2009

Stage

Better Late, 1959

Beyond the Fringe (also co-writer), 1960. Winner of a Special Tony Award, 1963.

The Blood of the Bambergs, 1962

A Cuckoo in the Nest, 1964

Forty Years On (also writer), 1968

Sing a Rude Song (co-writer), 1969

Getting On (writer), 1971

Habeas Corpus (also writer), 1973

The Old Country (writer), 1977

Enjoy (writer), 1980

Kafka's Dick (writer), 1986

A Visit from Miss Prothero (writer), 1987

Single Spies (An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution) (also writer and director), 1988. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy 1989.

The Wind in the Willows (adaptation), 1990

The Madness of George III (writer), 1991

Talking Heads (Waiting for the telegram, A Chip in the Sugar, Bed Among the Lentils, A Lady of Letters, Her Big Chance, Soldiering On, A Cream Cracker Under the Settee) (also writer), 1992

The History Boys (writer), 2004; Winner of the Best New Play 2005, the Society of London Theatre Special Award 2005, and the Tony Award for Best Play, 2006.

The Habit of Art (writer), 2009

Film

Long Shot, 1980

Dreamchild (voice only), 1985

The Secret Policeman's Ball, 1986

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, 1982

A Private Function (screenplay), 1986

Pleasure At Her Majesty's, 1987

Prick Up Your Ears (screenplay), 1987

Little Dorrit, 1987

''Wind in the Willows animated adaptation, 1994

Parson's Pleasure (writer), 1995

The Madness of King George (screenplay from his play "The Madness of George III" and cameo appearance), 1995

The History Boys (screenplay, from his play of the same name), 2006

Radio

The Great Jowett, 1980

Dragon, 1982

Uncle Clarence (writer, narrator), 1985

Better Halves (narrator), 1988

The Lady in the Van (writer, narrator), 1990

Winnie-the-Pooh (narrator), 1990

Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass (narrator, BBC Audiobooks)

Bibliography

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Beyond the Fringe (with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore). London: Souvenir Press, 1962, and New York: Random House, 1963

Forty Years On. London: Faber, 1969

Getting On. London: Faber, 1972

Habeas Corpus. London: Faber, 1973

The Old Country. London: Faber, 1978

Enjoy. London: Faber, 1980

Office Suite. London: Faber, 1981

Objects of Affection. London: BBC Publications, 1982

A Private Function. London: Faber, 1984

Forty Years On; Getting On; Habeas Corpus. London: Faber, 1985

The Writer in Disguise. London: Faber, 1985

Prick Up Your Ears: The Film Screenplay. London: Faber, 1987

Two Kafka Plays. London: Faber, 1987

Talking Heads. London: BBC Publications, 1988; New York: Summit, 1990

Single Spies. London: Faber, 1989 (Olivier Award winner: England's best comedy for 1989)

Single Spies and Talking Heads. New York: Summit, 1990

The Lady in the Van, 1989

Poetry in Motion (with others). 1990

The Wind in the Willows. London: Faber, 1991

Forty Years On and Other Plays. London: Faber, 1991

The Madness of George III. London: Faber, 1992

Poetry in Motion 2 (with others). 1992

Writing Home (memoir & essays). London: Faber, 1994 (winner of the 1995 British Book of the Year award).

The Madness of King George (screenplay), 1995

Father ! Father ! Burning Bright (prose version of 1982 TV script, Intensive Care), 1999

The Laying on of Hands (Stories), 2000

The Clothes They Stood Up In (novella), 2001

Untold Stories (autobiographical and essays), London, 2005, ISBN 0-571-22830-5

The Uncommon Reader (novella), London, 2007

A Life Like Other People's (memoir), London, 2009

Audio releases

Alan Bennett At The BBC (compilation)

Diaries 1980–1990

Diaries 1997–2004

Telling Tales

Hymn

The Lady In The Van

Alan And Thora

Untold Stories

Written On The Body

A Common Assault

Beyond The Fringe

Alan Bennett's On The Margin

Forty Years On (1973 version)

Forty Years On (2003 version)

Kafka's Dick

An Englishman Abroad (1983 version)

An Englishman Abroad (2006 version)

A Question Of Attribution

The Madness Of King George III

The History Boys

The Lady In The Van (play)

A Woman Of No Importance

The Clothes They Stood Up In

The Laying On Of Hands

Father! Father! Burning Bright

Say Something Happened

A Visit From Miss Protheroe

Two In Torquay

The Uncommon Reader

Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley (with Robert Hardy)

Poetry In Motion

Winnie The Pooh (narrator)

The House At Pooh Corner (narrator)

A Party For Pooh (narrator)

The Wind In The Willows (narrator)

Peter Pan And Wendy (narrator)

The Story Of Doctor Dolittle (narrator)

The Voyages Of Doctor Dolittle (narrator)

Doctor Dolittle's Garden (narrator)

The Owl & The Pussycat (narrator)

The Little Prince (narrator)

Animal Farm (narrator)

Translations

;Català

Una lectora poc corrent, 2008

;French

Soins intensifs, 2006

La reine des lectrices, 2009

;German

Der Rote Baron, Sein letzter Flug, 2001

Vater, Vater, lichterloh, 2002

Così fan tutte, (previously published as Alle Jahre wieder) 2003

Die Lady im Lieferwagen, 2004

Handauflegen, 2005

Die souveräne Leserin, 2008

;Italian

La pazzia di re Giorgio, 1996

Nudi e crudi, 2001

La cerimonia del massaggio, 2002

La signora nel furgone, 2003

Signore e signori, 2004

Scritto sul corpo, 2006

La sovrana lettrice, 2007

Il letto di lenticchie

;Spanish

Una Patata Frita en el Azúcar, 2003

Una Cama Entre Lentejas, 2003

Una Señora de Letras, 2003

Su Gran Opportunidad, 2003

Ir Tirando, 2003

Una Galleta Crácker Bajo el Sofá, 2003

Una Mujer Sin Importancia, 2003

Con lo puesto, 2003 (The Clothes They Stood Up In)

La Señora del Furgón, 2004

La Mano de Dios, 2004

La Señorita Fozzard Hace Pie, 2004

Jugando a los Bocadillos, 2004

''Una lectora nada común", 2008

El Perro en el Patio, 2004

Noches en los Jardines de España, 2004

Esperando el Telegrama, 2004

;Chinese

非普通讀者 Uncommon Reader

References

Further reading

Peter Wolfe, Understanding Alan Bennett, University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 1-57003-280-7.

Joseph H. O'Mealy,Alan Bennett: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2007.

Kara McKechnie, Alan Bennett, The Television Series, Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7190-6806-5

Robert Hewison Footlights – A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy, Methuen, 1983

Roger Wilmut From Fringe to Flying Circus – Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980, Eyre Methuen, 1980

External links

BBC Video interview with Alan Bennett

Bennett, Alan (1934–) Biography from screenonline

Alan Bennett interview at stv.tv

TonyAwards.com Interview with Alan Bennett

US publisher page for Alan Bennett

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Playername	Adel Taarabt
Caption	Taarabt playing for Morocco
Fullname	Adel Taarabt
Dateofbirth	May 24, 1989
Position	Midfielder
Currentclub	Queens Park Rangers
Clubnumber	7
Youthyears1	2004–2006
Youthclubs1	Lens
Years1	2005–2007
Years2	2006–2007
Years3	2007
Years4	2007–2010
Years5	2009
Years6	2009–2010
Years7	2010–
Clubs1	Lens
Clubs2	Lens B
Clubs3	→ Tottenham Hotspur (loan)
Clubs4	Tottenham Hotspur
Clubs5	→ Queens Park Rangers (loan)
Clubs6	→ Queens Park Rangers (loan)
Clubs7	Queens Park Rangers
Caps1	1
Caps2	14
Caps3	2
Caps4	7
Caps5	7
Caps6	41
Caps7	26
Goals1	0
Goals2	0
Goals3	0
Goals4	0
Goals5	1
Goals6	7
Goals7	12
Nationalyears1	2009–
Nationalteam1	Morocco
Nationalcaps1	8
Nationalgoals1	3
Pcupdate	28 December 2010
Ntupdate	24 August 2010

Adel Taarabt () (born 24 May 1989) is a Moroccan footballer who plays for and captains Queens Park Rangers as a midfielder.

Club career

Tottenham Hotspur

Taarabt signed for English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur on a long-term loan on 2 January 2007 after the club offered to quickly integrate him into the first team to offer him maximum playing time.

Queens Park Rangers

Taarabt signed permanently for Queens Park Rangers on 4 August 2010 on a 3 year contract for a fee of £600k rising to £1m depending on the club's achievement during the 2010–11 Championship season, with £200k being paid to Spurs if the club finishes in 6th place or higher, and £200k due if the club achieves promotion to the Premier League. He scored his first goal as a permanent QPR player during the first game of QPR's 2010–11 Football League Championship campaign against Barnsley, a penalty during the 4–0 win on 7 August 2010. Taarabt's performances for QPR during August 2010 earned him the Championship's Player of the Month award, as QPR topped the table.

In August 2010, with club captain Martin Rowlands a long-term injury victim and stand-in captain Fitz Hall unavailable, Taarabt was named captain. In December, manager Neil Warnock revealed that Taarabt would continue to serve as captain even after Hall's return from injury.

Taarabt's fine form continued, scoring in the 3-0 win against Doncaster in September and the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace in October. Taarabt then went on a run of scoring outstanding goals, starting with a 25 yard effort against Burnley in October, and two stunning efforts against Preston in November. Arguably his finest moment came when he scored the winning goal in the 2-1 win against Craig Bellamy's Cardiff City, in a top of the table clash.

On Boxing Day 2010, Taarabt set up Jamie Mackie for the opener and won a penalty which was converted by Heider Helguson before scoring two himself in the 4-0 win against 3rd place Swansea. His first was a left footed shot from the corner of the penalty area, and his second was a 30 yard curling right footed effort, after playing a neat one-two with Kyle Walker and nutmegging Swansea's Joe Allen.

In the 2-0 win at Coventry on 28th December, Taarabt crossed with the outside of his right foot for Tommy Smith to score. In the 2-2 draw with Bristol City on 3rd January 2011, Taarabt set up Alejandro Faurlin for QPR's first goal by dribbling into the box and laying the ball back to the Argentine midfielder. Taarabt later converted a penalty to score his 12th goal of the season.

International career

Taarabt represented France at under-16, under-17 and under-18 levels, but opted to play for Morocco, saying "I felt the time was right when I was given this opportunity". On 11 February 2009 Taarabt played his first international match with Morocco in a friendly against Czech Republic in Casablanca. He also made an appearance on 29 March during Morocco's 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier 2–1 defeat against Gabon.

Taarabt scored his first international goal on his first start on 31 March 2009 in a friendly 2–0 victory over Angola. On 6 September 2009 he scored his first goal in an official match against Togo in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification after he broke through the opposing defence in stoppage time. Taarabt will not play for the national team until the autumn of 2011. Although he came out and said that he will make himself available the upcoming fixtures against Algeria and Libya.

Career statistics

Club

International goals

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References

External links

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