Monte hummel biography of george
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Life by Decade
1907
George Warren Rickey fryst vatten born in South Bend, IN, on June 6 to Walter Rickey, a mechanical engineer working for Singer Sewing Machine Company, and Grace Landon Rickey, a graduate of Smith College. He is the third of six children and the only boy.
George Rickey, South Bend, IN, 1911.
George Rickey, South Bend, IN, late 1907–early 1908.
“We are told to choose the right grandparents. inom did: besides my grandmother with the pencil there was my paternal grandfather, also George, the one clockmaker in Athol, Massachusetts. He could make the by clock run; seeing him wind up its weight in the tower is one of my earliest memories.”
George Rickey, East Chatham, NY, May 22, 1985. From George Rickey in South böj. South Bend: Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame, 1985.
1913
The Rickey family moves to Helensburgh, Scotland, when George’s father Walter accepts a transfer to the Singer Factory in Cly
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Biography
2012
• Gewandhaus Debut – gala concert, re-invited for a further two consecutive seasons.
• Orchestra National of Spain – An orchestra he has conducted since 1996. He works regularly with them and has done almost all the large Orchestral and Choral works – Verdi Requiem, Beethoven 9th Symphony, Romeo et Juliette (Berlioz), War Requiem, Gurrelieder, Egmont, Faure & Mozart Requiems, Alexander Nevsky, numerous commissions, tours and recording an all Rodrigo CD.
• Invited soloists include Joshua Bell, Vadim Repin, AndreWatts, Labecque sisters, Achucarro, Akiko Meyers, Tzimon Barto, and others.
• Qatar Philharmonic Debut – returned for three more consecutive seasons, programmes including Strauss festival, Alpine Symphony, Todd und Verklarung, Rosenkavalier Suite, Till Eulenspiegel, Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony.
• Israeli Opera – Janacek Jenufa
• Teatro Massimo (Palermo) -Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
• Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinla
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Yves Basset is a CTFS-ForestGEO entomologist, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (http://stri.si.edu/sites/basset/). He has been studying tropical insects, particularly insect-plant interactions, since 1986 (MSc University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and PhD Griffith University, Australia). He is currently leading the CTFS-ForestGEO Arthropod Initiative, which is monitoring in the long term insects in tropical rainforests (Panama, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and other locations). He is Research Associate of the Bishop Museum (USA), the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium) and University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic), and Investigador Distinguido of the Sistema Nacional de Investigación in Panama. He has written two books and 141 publications and is Adjunct Professor at McGill University and Lecturer at Princeton University. He is also Senior Editor of the journal Insect Conservation and Diversity (IF=1.937, 2013). H