Sir thomas allen baritone biography of williams

Thomas Allen may refer to:

Clergy

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Music

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Politicians

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• Thomas Allen (Cavalier) (–), English MP for Middlesex
• Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet (c. –), Lord Mayor of London
• Tom Allen (Maine politician) (born ), U.S. representative for Maine
• Thomas Allen (representative) (–), railroadman and United States congressman from Missouri
• Thomas Allen (Wisconsin politician) (–), ninth secretary of state of Wisconsin
• Thomas Newton Allen (–after ), lawyer and author in Kentucky and Washington
• Thomas Carleton Allen (–), Canadian attorney and mayor of Fredericton
• Thomas R. Allen (born ), Chicago alderman
• Thomas M. Allen (Georgia politician), Baptist preacher and representative in the Georgia Assembly
• Thomas Y. Allen (–), member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Sport

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• Tom Allen (boxer) (–), heavyweight boxing champion
• Tom Allen (cricketer) (–), Australian cricketer
• Tom Allen (hurler) (–), Irish hurler
• Tommy Allen (footballer, born )

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  Thomas Allen has sung his last performance

  Opera

  norman lebrecht

  July 29,

  An epoch has ended.

  Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne:

  Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne scen that this had been his sista performance; inom wish inom had been there. He had already informally announced his farewell to friends and few years ago, but Glyndebourne had tempted him back this year into “The Merry Widow”.

  It feels as if a significant part of my life has said farewell. Allen was already in the ascendant at Covent Garden when I became a regular there just over fifty years ago. I remember in particular an October “Simon Boccanegra” starring Peter Glossop, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Boris Christoff in which the connoisseurs singled out Allen as Paolo and Robert Lloyd as Pietro.

  I see now how Te Kanawa, Allen, and Lloyd were a golden generation of Covent Garden singers: in , bladte Kanawa and he were Marguérite and Valentin, sister an

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  In the lead up to Durham University Choral Society&#;s performance of Vaughan Williams&#; &#;Five Mystical Songs&#; on 5th December, Tonya Alban speaks to Chancellor Sir Thomas Allen behind his connection with the epic.

  By Tonya Alban

  As you know Choral Society will be performing Ralph Vaughan Williams&#; &#;Five Mystical Songs&#;. As you have some experience with them, we would love some insight. First, about the history, this period has been dubbed a renaissance in English music, do you think that is a fair assessment?

  I think that’s true. There were a number of those (composers) around at the time. You know when I was a student, every day I used to meet with Herbert Howells, for example. And rather like the memories you have of your grandparents you wish you had asked them certain questions. I wish I had asked Herbert Howells about Vaughan Williams, about Holst and about all the various other people that he knew but I knew him up to a point and, you know, you didn’t go

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