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Though most closely associated with the works of Benjamin Britten, the conductor Steuart Bedford, who has died aged 81 after complications from Parkinson’s disease, was able to turn his professionalism and interpretative talents to great advantage in a range of other repertory too. The operas of Mozart elicited from him an authoritative response over a number of years at Garsington Opera while it was based in Oxfordshire.
Having launched his professional career with The Beggar’s Opera at Sadler’s Wells theatre in 1967, he went on to conduct his own edition of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal Academy of Music (1969), following that with the first modern British performances of Donizetti’s Belisario, also at the RAM (1972). During the years of Britten’s final illness in the early 1970s, Bedford came to the fore as a reliable and insightful interpreter of his works. Having already assisted on the 1966 Decca re
Aerion Park, next to next to Orlando Melbourne International Airport, will produce 300 of the jets
The park will cover more than 110 acres, with the buildings alone covering the equivalent of 14 football fields
It will bring at least 675 new jobs to Florida by 2026, it s claimed, as operations are ramped up
The park will house a customer completions center and a full-size AS2 cabin mock-up
A WELL-LOVED Cricklade woman who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force was laid to rest on Monday after she passed away aged 102. Ruth Webster was born May 19 1918 in Sharpness and grew up with her two brothers, Jack and Wallace. She attended grammar school in Bristol and emerged as a young lady not unafraid of challenges. On October 5 1930 they moved to Filton, a particularly memorable day for those of her family because it was the day the airship R101 crashed. Here, her brother Jack showed her how to use a micrometer and a Vernier, which resulted in a job at the British Aircraft Corporation.