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  Peter Garland
Peter Garland was born in 1952 in Maine.
Garland's musical works after 1971 were marked by a return to a radical consonance and a simplification of formal structure influenced by Cage, Harrison, early minimalism and an interest in world musics.
Garland has also worked as a musician in shadow puppet theater, especially in his The Conquest of Mexico (1977-80), performed at the 1985 New Music America Festival in Los Angeles.
www.otherminds.org /shtml/Garland.shtml   (234 words)

  
 Peter Garland of Isle of Wight County, Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
SAMUEL GARLAND was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
SARAH GARLAND was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
DEBORAH GARLAND was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
members.aol.com /vafdking/garlnd.htm   (342 words)

  
 Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg247 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Peter GARLAND [Parents] was born in 1623 in Of Boston, Suffolk, Ma.
Jabaez GARLAND was born in 1650 in Dover,, New Hampshire.
Garland Overton CARR was born in 1817 in, Louisa, Virginia.
www.ishipress.com /pafg247.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Peter Garland - Another Sunrise
Peter Garland's music is uniquely American; a blend of minimalism with influences from South/Central America, Asia and the Native Americans; along with American mavericks Cage, Partch, Harrison, Cowell, and Varèse.
Peter Garland's often austerely minimalist Tzadik disc, The Days Run Away, was something I regarded as a useful adjunct to relaxation techniques, till it slowly pulled me in.
Garland was born in 1952 in Portland, Maine.
www.moderecords.com /catalog/110garland.html   (1525 words)

  
 Backstage Pass: See and Hear Peter Garland
Garland says of the inspiration of the piece, "It was written in 1994 during a long period of travel.
Garland, of Tlacotalpan, Mexico and student performers will open the New Music Workshop to the public for an open rehearsal/discussion of his Second String Quartet.
Garland will speak with the Composition Seminar about his music and the influence of indigenous Mexican musics, and the American maverick tradition (from Cowell to Nancarrow).
www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/199910/garland_peter.html   (327 words)

  
 Garlands listed in the Kentucky Census 1810-1840   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Garland family intersects with the Varvels though Frances Garland and Wilson Morris, whose daughter Rebecca Frances Morris married Archibald Andrew Varvel in 1856 in Boone County, MO. Wilson Morris and Frances Garland were married on Apr 6, 1818 in Warren County, KY, and moved to Boone County, MO around 1735.
Frances, daughter of Thomas Garland of Madison and Warren Counties, KY The first step in tracing back this branch of Garlands is to identify her father, and the evidence strongly suggests that he was a man named Thomas, who came first to Madison County, KY c1797, and later to Warren County, KY c1815.
Reynolds (1980) outlines a strong case for Edward’s four sons Peter, John, Edward, and James based on the surviving fragment of Edward’s will, the Parish processioning records, and the fact that Edward was the only Garland in New Kent/Hanover old enough to be their father.
home.comcast.net /~varvel/genealogy/morris/garland.htm   (2694 words)

  
 Peter T. Garland, CCO
Peter Garland has over 25 years of financial experience with a concentration in commercial lending.
Garland’s 13 years of experience as Chief Financial Officer of a technology based composite manufacturing company provides the invaluable perspective of having sat on both sides of the table.
Garland recently returned to banking as the Senior Credit Analyst for the Tolland Bank’s Commercial Loan Department where he was responsible for commercial loan portfolio analysis and reporting, and credit analysis.
www.bankersbanknortheast.com /peter_t_garland.htm   (280 words)

  
 Peter Garland - Chief Constable 1956 to 1975
Peter Garland - Chief Constable 1956 to 1975
Peter Garland, who was Chief Constable from 1956 to 1975, died in November 2000 at the age of 88.
Frederick Peter Collison Garland was born in September 1912 in South sea.
www.norfolk.police.uk /article.cfm?artID=1066&catID=584&bctrail=0   (353 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Peter A. Garland, public servant was ex-congressman; 81
Peter A. Garland, public servant was ex-congressman; 81
BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Peter A. Garland, a longtime public servant and one-term congressman, died Jan. 26 at Mid Coast Hospital.
Garland was mayor of Saco in the 1950s before being elected to the US House of Representatives in Maine's First District as a Republican in 1960.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/06/peter_a_garland_public_servant_was_ex_congressman_81   (220 words)

  
 Garland’s Heirs v. Choctaw Nation, 272 U.S. 728, 47 S.Ct. 275, 71 L.Ed. 494 (1927)
            Samuel Garland, Peter P. Pitchlynn and two others were appointed delegates of the Choctaw Nation under an Act of the Legislative Assembly approved November 9, 1853, and charged with the duty of pressing to settlement a claim against the United States for ceded lands.
The court held the heirs of Garland - No. 42 - were not entitled to recover anything, and dismissed their petition.
By dismissing the petition of Garland's heirs, it adjudged, in effect, that he had received full compensation; and the judgment in favor of Pitchlynn's heirs for $3,113.92 determined that the amount theretofore received plus such recovery would amount to full compensation for his services.
www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/Garlands_Heirs_v_Choctaw_Nation_272_728.htm   (718 words)

  
 Ancestors of Barbara Nadine Stewart - Person Page 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Dorcas Garland married Ephraim Ricker, son of George Ricker and Eleanor Evans, on 1 November 1720 at Dover, Strafford Co, New Hampshire.
Elizabeth Garland was born circa 1701 at Dover, Strafford Co, New Hampshire.
Elizabeth Garland married Joseph Ricker, son of Maturin Ricker and Rebecca Shaw, on 16 November 1720 at Dover, New Hampshire.
www.dhouk.com /genes/burke/p7.htm   (4635 words)

  
 The Boy from Oz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Written by Nick Enright, the show opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, on March 5, 1998 and toured Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, playing to over 1.2 million theatre patrons.
The show starred Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen (a role created by Todd McKenney in the original Australian production), Isabel Keating as Judy Garland, and Stephanie J. Block as Liza Minnelli.
He is joined by Chrissy Amphlett and Angela Toohey, reprising their roles as Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, and as Peter's mother, Marion, Colleen Hewett, plus a support cast of 40 singer-dancers and a 25-piece orchestra.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Boy_from_Oz   (706 words)

  
 Peter Garland - SourceWatch
Peter Garland was appointed interim Chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on December 14, 2004.
Peter Garland appears to be a long-standing advocate for NHS modernisation and Foundation Trusts.
"Monitor appoints Peter Garland as interim Chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (http://www.monitor-nhsft.gov.uk/news.php?id=570)", Monitor press release, December 14, 2004.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Peter_Garland   (557 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Critics: The Theatre
She was on her way back to the States from a tour in Australia, where she had engaged in a number of characteristic antics both on- and offstage.
Garland could only be herself (and what a self!); Keating, on the other hand, has the range, the discipline, and the technique to rise above the show’s poor direction, by Philip Wm.
Whether the life of Peter Allen is enough to build a show around is open to debate; this is not the show that will answer the question.
www.newyorker.com /critics/theatre/?031027crth_theatre   (1268 words)

  
 Recommended Composers: Peter Garland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Peter Garland is the conscience of American music.
But the fascinating dichotomy about Garland is the contrast between his angry, intransigent musicologist persona and the delicate, intuitive beauty of his music.
There are a lot of gorgeous, major Garland works not yet on disc: his string quartet "In praise of Poor Scholars", the Roque Dalton Songs.
home.earthlink.net /~kgann/PGarland.html   (221 words)

  
 James GARLAND Descendants
Peter Garland, born 1846 in Bluff, I.T.; died in Tamaha, OK.
Walter Raymond Garland, born 3 December 1893 in Choctaw Nation, IT; died 26 June 1989 in Garland Cemetery.
Lavena Garland, born 27 January 1896 in Garland, Oklahoma; died 13 May 1954 in Flora, Mississippi.
www.geocities.com /prenticerd@sbcglobal.net/paternal/pgarlan1.html   (1356 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Walk in Beauty: Music: Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio,Aki Takahashi,Peter Garland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Garland's music takes many of its cues from present-day minimalism: single notes characterized in simple patterns or motifs with the usual bass underscoring to give each piece depth.
Peter Garland's music has found an equivalent to this set of hidden cultural values of place.
Garland has an evocative interesting voice, and although he utilizes tonal and modal schemes,usually very static, his textures seem to drift gently,like wind chimes, chimes that interface with winds from the Gulf,lucious ones.
www.amazon.com /Walk-in-Beauty-Abel-Steinberg-Winant-Trio/dp/B000000R3C   (1122 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Peter Garland tickets, dates
American composer Peter Garland was born in Portland, Maine, in 1952.
Garland has had at least four recordings of his compositions released by labels including Tzadik, New Albion and Avant.
Garland spent the '80s in Santa Fe, where he had his own performing ensemble and could also study Southwestern Indian and Hispanic musical traditions.
www.ticketmaster.com /artist/736532?brand=none   (596 words)

  
 Frog Peak Artist: Peter Garland
Frog Peak Music carries Peter Garland's scores, and also the remaining copies of his essential Soundings Press publications.
Writings by Garland, Harrison, Corner, Diamond, Powell, Didkovsky, Burk, Povall, Mann, Wendt, and others, edited by Carter Scholz.
In the fall of 1991 Garland began his "life of two suitcases" and a 41-month journey that took him around the world and back.
www.frogpeak.org /fpartists/fpgarland.html   (272 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: Peter Garland: Matachin Dances performed at New Music America 1981
Peter Garland on New Music America in 1981, San Francisco California.
Peter Garland's music is much neglected, unjustly swept under the rug by critics who don't understand much Peter Garland himself.
This piece, "Matachin Dances" is by no means a folk piece, but it derives its simplicity, spareness and austerity from the unpretentious qualities of the different folk musics he has studied.
www.archive.org /details/PeterGarland   (198 words)

  
 Fort Tours | Peter Garland and Men Charge a Camp of Reservation Indians, Six Miles North of Palo Pinto
So Capt. Garland and his men made a surprise attack on the camp, and charged down this roadway between the tepees, and as they did, fired in both directions.
According to reports, one of the members of Capt. Garland's party held his gun against her bosom and was in the act of firing, when she took the gun and pushed it away only in time to receive the discharge of the rifle through her thumb.
Garland and his men passed through Palo Pinto shortly after the assault and told the people, "We have opened the ball, and others can dance to the music."
www.forttours.com /pages/tocpgarla.asp   (1147 words)

  
 DVD.net : Peter Allen - The Boy From Oz - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Peter Allen hailed from rural outback Australia, Tenterfield in New South Wales to be exact, and had a yearning to perform from a very early age.
This was not the direction in which Peter wanted to head and the Allen Brothers travelled to Asia, performing mostly for US troops stationed there.
After seeing him perform, Garland invited Peter and the trio he was currently performing in to tour with her around the world.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3747   (1000 words)

  
 Peter Allen - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born Peter Woolnough in Tenterfield, Australia in 1942, vocalist/pianist Peter Allen began his musical career at the age of nine, playing piano in a pub in his hometown of Tenterfield, NSW.
Judy Garland saw the duo perform at the Hong Kong Hilton, and convinced them to move to the US and open for her in Miami, Las Vegas and other shows around America.
The Allen Brothers broke up in the 70s (as did Peter and Liza's marriage) and Peter continued on as a solo act, concentrating on his cabaret show.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /music/peterallen.htm   (296 words)

  
 alex garland + peter jackson = halo? - The Cult
Wierd wierd news, Alex Garland (author of: the beach, coma, and tesseract) and peter jackson are in the process of creating a movie based around the video game series Halo.
How wierd, alex garland is a phenominal writer and jackson is an excellent director (unfortunately it seems to be a trend to bash anyone who makes a big budget remake of anything).
Garland and Jackson will have the daunting task of giving Master Chief a backstory and a soul.
www.chuckpalahniuk.net /community/showthread.php?t=23522   (564 words)

  
 Peter Garland : Nana + Victorio - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Nana + Victorio is a brief album featuring two compositions by modern composer Peter Garland.
It opens with the title track, a solo percussion piece composed in the early '90s and performed by the skilled and experienced William Winant, one of two percussionist to whom the work is dedicated (the other is Christopher Shultis).
The second work heard on this album, "Penasco Blanco" (1984), is a short and pretty number for piano during which the vibes join in to punctuate phrases.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,90535,00.html   (240 words)

  
 The Practice - Porter Garland - Chartered Accountants - Bagshot, Surrey
Kenneth Porter trained at Coopers and was subsequently with Pannell Crewdson Hardy (which became Pannell Kerr Forster) before establishing a sole practice in 1954 in Chalfont St Peter.
He opened an office in the rapidly expanding Camberley area in 1963 and in 1974 merged with Peter Garland who was practising in Camberley and Bracknell having trained with Allfields and been manager in charge of their Bracknell office.
The current directors are Richard Garland and Peter Peel, who were both admitted to the partnership in 1976, and Andrew Williams, who joined the company when it incorporated in 2004.
www.portergarland.co.uk /about/index.html   (124 words)

  
 Peter Hillsman Taylor (1917-1994)
Peter Taylor was born on January 8, 1917, in the small community of Trenton, Tennessee.
Hit hard by the Great Depression, Peter's father, who was a lawyer, had to move where he could find work.
Both Peter and Robert Taylor have written about their famous family, the first in In the Tennessee Country and the second in Fiddle and Bow.
oneweb.utc.edu /~tnwriter/authors/taylor.p.html   (507 words)

  
 Survivors: Garland's War - TV.com
Abby becomes separated from Jenny and Greg and rescues a man called Jimmy Garland (Richard Heffer) who is waging his own personal war against a man called Knox (Peter Jeffrey).
Garland is heir to the Waterhouse estate that Knox has taken over and he wants it back so he can lead the community that has started there.
Abby is captured by Knox and he tries to convince her that Garland has aggravated the situation and that he is willing to co-operate...
www.tv.com /episode/133227/summary.html   (202 words)

  
 Department of Biology:
Garland and Ives (2000) demonstrate the formal mathematical and statistical equivalency of independent contrasts and generalized least-squares (GLS) models (e.g., see Martins and Hansen, 1997; Pagel, 1998).
One use would be to determine the statistical power for comparing mean values of different groups of species, abnother would be in tests of convergent evolution.
One of these, with the.DSC extension, is the same as used in Generalized Least Squares models (e.g., the V matrix of Garland and Ives, 2000).
www.biology.ucr.edu /people/faculty/Garland/PDAP.html   (1424 words)

  
 oodiscs #52: BORDER MUSIC: PETER GARLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The music is performed by Garland's own ensemble and the University of New Mexico percussion ensemble.
Peter Garland was born in 1952 in Portland, Maine and graduated from CalArts in 1972.
Garland currently is a permanent resident of Mexico.
www.oodiscs.com /oo52.html   (269 words)

  
 CB0014
Garland’s Matachin Dances for two violins and gourd rattles is a moving and graceful set of six dances.
I imagined Peter Garland as a crazed musical shaman, coming out of the desert just long enough to share a peyote-fueled trance vision.
Garland is the author of two books of essays on American music and culture and was the editor and publisher of Soundings Press (one of the primary outlets for scores by American composers during the 1970s and 1980s).
www.coldbluemusic.com /pages/CB0014.html   (5034 words)

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