Racing tips: Willie Mullins is powering up for Cheltenham

Edit Scotsman 26 Mar 2016
Willie Mullins is confident Annie Power will not be beaten for a lack of pace when she bids to make it third time lucky at the Cheltenham Festival in today’s Stan James Champion Hurdle ... Mullins said. “She's taken on geldings before and I don't think coming back to two miles will be any problem ... “I think it might actually be easier for her to race over two miles with the pace they'll be going ... He said ... He said ... 1.30 Min ... 8.40 Israfel....

Horse racing tips: Friday 4 March

Edit The Guardian 03 Mar 2016
@tonypaley. Doncaster ... Related ... 5.45 Pao De Acuca 6.15 Israfel 6.45 Wolowitz (nap) 7.15 Eastern Dragon (nb) 7.45 All You 8.15 Bint Arcano. ....

Talking Horses: Wednesday’s best bets plus all the latest racing news

Edit The Guardian 03 Feb 2016
Clevedon Court (7.40), who will surely go on to run well in much stronger company in future, is the nap bet at Kempton. @Greg_Wood_ ... Related ... At Kempton, Kristoff will be popular in the concluding handicap after a good second behind Israfel last time out, but Clevedon Court (7.40) also showed improved form on her latest start when runner-up behind Nouvelli Dancer, and will surely go on to run well in much stronger company in future ... ....

Talking Horses: Monday’s best bets plus all the latest racing news

Edit The Guardian 25 Jan 2016
Galway Jack (3.45) steps back up another couple of furlongs at Kempton and can take Andrew Thornton one more step along the road to his goal of 1,000 winners. 10.10am Waterlogging worries for Bangor on Wednesday. Tony Paley ... Officials are anticipating five to 10 millimetres of rain on Tuesday with the ground presently described as heavy ... Related ... Miss Minuty (4.00) and Israfel (2.50) are two more with strong claims on the same card ... ....

Horse racing tips: Monday 25 January

Edit The Guardian 24 Jan 2016
2.20 Secret Interlude 2.50 Israfel 3.25 Zakatal 4.00 Miss Minuty 4.30 Milrow 5.00 L’Inganno Felice 5.30 Afonso De Sousa ......

Follow the main Man at Wolves

Edit Sporting Life 24 Jan 2016
KEMPTON. 1.05 Snowball, 1.35 Wait For Me, 2.10 All Set To Go, 2.40 Padge, 3.10 Noble Ned, 3.45 Ericht, 4.20 Hollywood All Star. NEWCASTLE. 1.20 Western Rules, 1.55 Clan Chief, 2.30 Rock Relief, 3.00 Veinard, 3.35 King Of The Wolds, 4.10 Eastview Boy. WOLVERHAMPTON. 2.20 Romancingthestone, 2.50 Israfel, 3.25 Flambeuse, 4.00 Miss Minuty, 4.30 Milrow, 5.00 Toga Tiger, 5.30 MAN OF HARLECH (NAP), 6.00 Malvesi. DOUBLE. Man Of Harlech and Padge ... ....

Rim Grads at Carnegie Hall (California State University, Fullerton)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jan 2016
(Source. California State University, Fullerton) ... The strings and choir performed O'Regan's 'Triptych' (2005) and 'Ecstasies Above' (2006, based on the lyric poem 'Israfel' by Edgar Allen Poe) ... Continue reading ... (noodl. 31600977) ....

Sono Luminus releases its third full studio album of the Del Sol String Quartet

Edit The Examiner 26 Sep 2015
Yesterday the Sono Luminus label released its third full studio album of the Del Sol String Quartet ... One other connection is likely to provide relevant context for those considering listening to this new album ... E ... Mikhail, Azrael, Jibreel, and Israfel. (These are better known in the Western cultures, not to mention among regular viewers of Dominion, as Michael, Israfel, Gabriel, and Azrael.) ... ....

Mark Simpson: death in D flat major

Edit The Guardian 29 Jun 2015
He is a visceral and wildly idealistic composer – but even Simpson was surprised by the scale of his new work about the afterlife, premiered at the Manchester international festival on 4 July. Mark Simpson is showing me the score of his new piece, The Immortal ... Related ... Listen to the irresistible energy of his recent orchestral piece Israfel to hear what I mean – but the instinctive, visceral approach to the stuff of music certainly is....

Reports claim Saudi cleric issued fatwa allowing starving husbands to eat wives

Edit The Examiner 11 Apr 2015
On Thursday, the Jersalem Post said that Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the top religious authority in Saudi Arabia, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that reportedly gives starving husbands permission to eat their wives ... WND said the report "is yet to be officially confirmed." ... According to CNN Arabic, the report was first mentioned in a sarcastic post written by a Moroccan blogger known as "Israfel al-Maghribi."...

On Black Wings, A Demon

Edit MUZU.TV 10 Apr 2015
Watch the official On Black Wings, A Demon video by The Order Of Israfel in HD on WWW.MUZU.TV and check out the latest new music releases and playlists for free. ....

BBCSSO/Litton review – exhilarating, until it became exhausting

Edit The Guardian 03 Apr 2015
3 / 5 stars ... The programme opened with a new work by 26-year-old Mark Simpson, whose programme note explains that in Israfel, inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe lyric poem, he “wanted to write a piece that sang, floated, morphed, moved, moved us, lifted us, had power, had fragility” ... It isn’t trying to be anything but itself, and its blithe, uninhibited energy pays honour to Poe’s “Israfel, who despisest / An unimpassioned song.” ... comments....
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