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In the News (Fri 29 Aug 08)

  
  Christ Church Cathedral - Frederick Burgomaster
Frederick Burgomaster is organist and choirmaster of Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, and conductor and music director of the Indianapolis Festival Chorus and Orchestra.
Burgomaster holds a DMA degree from the University of Southern California, an SMM degree from New York's Union Theological Seminary, and the associate certificate from the American Guild of Organists.
The author of articles and leader of workshops on the training of boys' and girls' voices, Dr. Burgomaster has also prepared choruses for several major symphony orchestras and has conducted a number of major works for chorus and orchestra.
www.cccindy.org /subpage.asp?p=139   (248 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards.
The burgomaster's wife returned home just before dinner, and found a motley throng of bearded warriors assembled in front of the house, they were trying to make themselves intelligible in the English language to some of the constables, and when the latter respectfully saluted Maria, raised their hands to their morions also.
The burgomaster had intended to have her conveyed in a litter, accompanied by a flag of truce, as far as the Spanish lines, and the doctor no longer opposed her wish to travel.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/g142v10.txt   (18375 words)

  
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The young burgomaster was so delighted with Manka's cleverness and so pleased with her comely looks that he proposed to her at once and in a short time married her.
Then the burgomaster recognized the man as the owner of the mare and he had to confess that what he said was true.
The burgomaster agreed to this and Manka prepared a fine supper of all the dishes of which her husband was particularly fond.
courses.wcupa.edu /johnson/tales/MANKA.HTM   (1687 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Frederick Burgomaster's 25th anniversary in the post will be observed with a choral evensong at 4 p.m.
Burgomaster, who has nurtured several musical traditions at the Episcopal cathedral and overseen installation of two organs there, will be honored with a piece commissioned in honor of his silver anniversary.
Burgomaster, who was born in Canada, is the son of a priest.
www.indystar.com /library/reprints/cathedral/burgomaster.html   (337 words)

  
 Burgomaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgomeister, literally translated meaning 'master of the citizens') is the English form, rendering (often the Anglo-saxon equivalent Mayor is substituted) various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate and/or chairman of the executive council of a sub-national level of administration:
In Polish, a mayoral title, derived from German, is burmistrz.
Amtsbürgermeister (roughly translated: 'District Burgomaster') can be used for the Chief Magistrate of a Swiss constitutive Canton, as in Aargau 1815-1831 (next styled Landamman)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burgomaster   (216 words)

  
 LeogirlToo's Xanga Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
He heard Katrina and the Burgomaster behind him, urging him to slow his pace and wait for them to join him, but he could not.
He slid from the saddle and was headed for the cavern entrance before she, Masbath and the Burgomaster had even dismounted.
The witch's cave may have provided no proof to the Burgomaster, but it had to her -- proof there were still forces at work in Sleepy Hollow with which they must contend.
www.xanga.com /LeogirlToo   (4425 words)

  
 DECREE CONCERNING THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF WASTE MATERIALS
Without prejudice to the competence of the officers of the criminal investigation department, the burgomaster and the officials appointed by the Flemish Government maintain supervision of the implementation of this decree and its implementing decisions and of compliance with the environmental licence according to the regulations specified in this chapter.
If the burgomaster does not or not sufficiently act, the measures mentioned in § 1, 2 and 3 can be taken by the officials appointed in accordance with article 29, § 1.
The official report of the establishment of infringements and the decision to stop, seal or close an installation, as referred to in the previous paragraphs of this article, will be sent within five workdays by registered mail to the operator.
www.emis.vito.be /wet_ENG_navigator/mv7.htm   (785 words)

  
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After a short struggle, the burgomaster's son, inferior in strength and age to his opponent, lay extended on the ground; but the other lads, who had not ceased shouting, "Glipper, Glipper," seized the young noble, who was kneeling on his vanquished foe.
The burgomaster's office did not bring in a large income, and Adrian's grandfather's trade of preparing chamois leather, as well as the business in skins, was falling off; his father had other matters in his head, matters that claimed not only his intellect, strength and time, but also every superfluous farthing.
The burgomaster had pressed the nobleman to sit down in the study-chair, while he himself leaned in a half-sitting attitude on the writing-table, listening somewhat impatiently to his distinguished guest.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/5/5/8/5583/old/g144v10.txt   (19650 words)

  
 Nyakizu:The Administration of Genocide (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The burgomaster, councilors, and cell leaders all held meetings with the population to discuss security, each time stressing that they were transmitting orders from the national government.
The burgomaster and his subordinates provided the documents necessary to traveloutside the commune and issued attestations of identity for people from Nyakizu and elsewhere who had lost their identity cards.
Given that popular opinion seems to have opposed his murder, the burgomaster may have acted on that day in order to benefit from the support of the visitors, if there were a negative reaction, and to have a recent accomplishment to present for their praise.
www.hrw.org /reports/1999/rwanda/Geno8-10-05.htm   (9108 words)

  
 The Key of Gold: Czech Folk Tales: 4. Silly Jura
As there was no priest in the village (he lived in the next village), they went to the burgomaster and asked him to go with them to the charnel-house, saying that the place was haunted.
Next day the burgomaster proclaimed that he would give a pound to the man who had stolen his nuts the day before, if he would only come to see him.
So Jura went to him, and the burgomaster said: "I ought to punish you for stealing, but since you have cured my illness which nobody was able to cure, I'll give you the pound I promised, but you mustn't steal any more." So Jura promised not to steal any more, and went home.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/kog/kog07.htm   (1054 words)

  
 RETURN TO SLEEPY HOLLOW - Sleepy Hollow Fan Fiction
The Burgomaster's expression was grim as he spoke his final decree.
The Burgomaster ran to her and hesitated just a moment before rolling her to her back.
The Burgomaster gazed at her in disbelief a moment, then rose to his feet.
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The burgomaster had given this letter to the young lady, and Henrica hastened to the musician without delay, to entreat him to help her escape from the city and guide her to the Spanish lines.
Under the pressure of the terrible responsibility he endured, and urged by his fellow-magistrates, he had consented, at the meeting of the council, to write to Valdez and ask him to give free passage to embassadors, who were to entreat the estates and the Prince of Orange to release the tortured city from her oath.
The "hurrah," led by the Burgomaster, was given to the Prince, and Janus Dousa followed it by a toast to the independence and liberty of their native land.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/g143v10.txt   (17349 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Karl Lueger
time chosen burgomaster, did the emperor confirm the choice.
Socialist party and to the re-creation of Vienna, of which he remained burgomaster until his death, his re-election occurring in 1903 and 1909.
Socialists is a German-Slav-Magyar state under the Habsburg dynasty, federal in plan, Catholic in
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09417a.htm   (978 words)

  
 Chapter II
The Burgomaster will ensure that the abovementioned notification is displayed within a period of ten calendar days, following the date on which the application file for the licence was declared admissible and complete.
The notification of the public inquiry is published as ordered by the competent Burgomaster in at least two daily and/or weekly newspapers, one of which has a regional character.
The information meeting referred to in §1 must take place within the period referred to in Article 17, §1, 1, of this decision in the municipality(ies) in which the parcels are situated where the operation or the modification of the establishment is taking place or is planned to take place.
www.emis.vito.be /wet_ENG_navigator/vlarem1-H5.htm   (943 words)

  
 The Owl's Ear by Erckmann Chatrian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
This burgomaster was a tall, thin man, and wore a bushy gray mustache.
While the shepherd went to knock at the rural guard's door, the burgomaster plunged among the elder bushes, in a little lane that wound around behind the old church.
While the burgomaster proceeded gravely toward the hall of the municipal council, we were already climbing the hill.
www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /horror/003/063.htm   (2804 words)

  
 OLIVIEIRA v. THE NETHERLANDS - 33129/96 [2002] ECHR 479 (4 June 2002)
Finally, the Burgomaster noted that neither the applicant's home nor his place of work were situated in the area concerned.
As to the argument put forward on the applicant's behalf to the effect that the Burgomaster's instructions ought to have been published, the Government observed that these were internal instructions to the police and not aimed at informing the public.
Before applying such a measure to the applicant the Burgomaster had ascertained that he would not suffer undue hardship as a result – that is, that the applicant did not live or work in the area in question and did not have his post office box there.
www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2002/479.html   (5859 words)

  
 LANDVREUGD v. THE NETHERLANDS - 37331/97 [2002] ECHR 478 (4 June 2002)
He submitted, inter alia, that the Burgomaster had failed to take into account the fact that he was residing in the Ganzenhoef area, that he needed to be present there in person twice a week in order to collect his social security benefits and that he received social counselling there.
The Burgomaster’s representative further stated that the address where the applicant had stated that he resided and where he collected his mail and social security benefits was in fact the address of the Streetcornerwork Foundation.
Moreover, whatever might have been the situation when the Burgomaster first gave the impugned instructions to the police, after more than ten or eleven years it could no longer be said that so serious a restriction without an adequate legal basis corresponded to a “pressing social need”.
www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2002/478.html   (7251 words)

  
 Chp 15 - The Molen on the Veluwe
A litter taken from the burgomaster's coach-house and borne by two strong Flemish horses, bore the jongejuffrouw Gilda Beresteyn in the train of her future lord.
The burgomaster had apparently desired to spare her for the moment this additional horror and shame.
The burgomaster will be in a position to announce to his fellow-citizens that they have nothing to fear from a chivalrous enemy, who will respect person and property, and who will go out of the gates of Amersfoort as empty-handed as he came.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/degas/561/fchp15.html   (5977 words)

  
 Nyakizu: The Massacres (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The burgomaster of Nyakizu was one who did not: he launched the first killing campaign in Butare directly in opposition to the prefect’s efforts to keep order.
She reports that the assailant, who was her uncle, was stopped before he even reached the burgomaster and that the burgomaster was not injured in the attack.
The burgomaster traveled throughout the commune with his head bandaged warning the population that RPF soldiers were in the church, hiding in the midst of the Tutsi civilians.
www.hrw.org /reports/1999/rwanda/Geno8-10-03.htm   (16811 words)

  
 Chp 12 - Tears, Sighs, Hearts
Diogenes freed himself with a sudden jerk from Gilda's clinging arms, staggered back against the table, swaying on his feet and uttering an inane laugh; whilst she, left standing alone, turned wide, bewildered eyes on her brother Nicolaes, who happened to be close to her at the moment.
I think that she was near to unconsciousness then, and that she would have fallen, but that the burgomaster stepped quickly to her side and put his arms round her.
His hands were clasped behind his back, and on his face there was a curious expression which the burgomaster was not shrewd enough to define -- one of self-deprecation, yet withal of introspection and of detachment, as if the helpless body alone were present and the mind had gone a-roaming in the land of dreams.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/degas/561/fchp12.html   (3004 words)

  
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This was not the famine-point, according to the standard which had once been established in Leyden; but the courage of the burghers had been rapidly oozing away, under the pressure of their recent disappointments.
The burgomaster endeavoured to persuade the Prince with all the eloquence for which he was so renowned, that the hearts not of the Antwerpers only, but of the Hollanders and Zeelanders, were easily to be won at that moment.
Sometimes the burgomaster was denounced for having sold himself and his country to the Spaniards, and was assailed with execrations for being willing to conclude a sudden and disgraceful peace.
www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext04/jm41v10.txt   (14081 words)

  
 My Spirit Rejoices / Christ Church Cathedral Of Men & Boys Classical
The Anglican musical tradition is glorious, and boasts a host of composers whose hymns, anthems and psalm settings are among the most beautiful in all liturgical music.
Music by renaissance masters is also included in the service, and it is a thrill to hear this excellent choir sing their music.
The magnificent organ playing of Burgomaster is showcased in Howells's gentle 'Master Tallis's Testament." This is a deeply spiritual and musically enriching recording that's ideal for lovers of choral and organ music.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1135848/a/My+Spirit+Rejoices+%2F+Christ+Church+Cathedral+of+Men+%26+Boys.htm   (699 words)

  
 Constable Crane's Testimony
BURGOMASTER: So you kept telling us, when you were trying to get us to stop torturing suspects and figure out who is guilty the boring way.
BURGOMASTER: Crane, you have been a thorn in my side ever since you joined the constabulary.
BURGOMASTER: I can't have any detective with a history of disturbing graves running around believing in vampires.
belladonna.org /explanation.html   (1221 words)

  
 Emma Goldman on Enemy
He considers it his duty to communicate his discovery to the highest authority of the town, the Burgomaster, his brother Peter Stockmann.
Stockmann is indeed an idealist; else he would know that the man is often lost in the official.
Therefore the People's Messenger drops the "greatest man" in town when it learns that the Burgomaster and the influential citizens are determined that the truth shall be silenced.
www.mckellen.com /stage/enemyla/goldman.htm   (1716 words)

  
 "Sleepy Hollow", final, revised by Tom Stoppard
Facing the "stage" is the BURGOMASTER, flanked by the HIGH CONSTABLE (who has a list of names) and various MAGISTRATES and ALDERMEN.
BURGOMASTER Constable, this is a song we have heard from you more than once but never before with this discordant accompaniment.
BURGOMASTER And remember -- it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.
www.scifiscripts.com /scripts/sleepy-hollow_final.htm   (13656 words)

  
 The Burgomaster's Wife by Georg Ebers. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
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 The bells (1871) by Leopold Lewis
Oh, if the Burgomaster consents and you consent and Annette consents, why, I suppose I cannot refuse my consent either.
That winter, you remember, Burgomaster, the whole valley was covered several feet deep with snow, and it was a long time before the horse of the Polish Jew could be dug out.
But, perhaps, Burgomaster, it would be better to adjourn the signing of the marriage contract for a few days.
gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /gaslight/thebells.htm   (6981 words)

  
 A Rogue's Life - Chapter VI.
I got my money, and began enthusiastically on another Rembrandt--"A Burgomaster's Wife Poking the Fire." Last time, the chiar'oscuro of the master had been yellow and fl, this time it was to be red and fl.
It is made from a recipe found among the papers of Rembrandt himself--has been used with the most astonishing results on the Master's pictures in every gallery of Holland, and is now being applied to the surface of the largest Rembrandt in Mr.
The brown, the fl, the Burgomaster, the breakfast, and the ray of yellow light, all came clean off together in considerably less than a minute of time.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/adventure/ARoguesLife/chap7.html   (4981 words)

  
 The Bells
The Inn is the residence of the Burgomaster.
Christian is certainly a brave man, and an honest man, and a handsome man! I do not wish to maintain anything to the contrary.
And now leave me. Whether it was the wine, or the cold, or the gossip about the Polish Jew, it comes to the same thing.
www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff6/bells.htm   (7685 words)

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