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The first Coffee Morning was held in 1990, when a local fundraising committee held a coffee morning where the cost of the coffee was donated to Macmillan. The first nationwide Coffee Morning took place in 1991 with 2,600 supporters taking part. [2] The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is one of the largest and longest-standing fundraising events ...
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It is often "peaceful" sounding and lacks composition, beat, and/or structured melody. [5] It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening [6] and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation.
premièred by the Manchester University New Music Ensemble under the direction of the composer in Manchester on 17 June 1986. Two Movements (1987), for wind quintet premièred by the faculty ensemble at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow on 29 June 2007. Untold (1987, rev.1991), for wind quintet
MacMillan's music is infused with the spiritual and the political. His Catholic faith has inspired many of his sacred works; for example, a Magnificat (1999), and several masses. This central strand of his life and compositions was marked by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in early 2005, with a survey of his music entitled From Darkness into Light.
The Lost Songs of St Kilda is an album by James MacMillan and Trevor Morrison, released in 2016 by Decca Records.The album contains modern recordings of traditional songs taught to Morrison as a boy by a resident of St Kilda, Scotland.
The first two, from 1995, feature vintage film of founder Arthur Grayson dictating his company's "basic principles," including keeping a list of clients in a safe, secure place; projecting an air of listening to clients (even if they're not paying attention to them); and investing only in white-owned business ("Not all of Arthur Grayson's ...
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
"Atmosphere" is a song by the English post-punk band Joy Division. It was originally released in March 1980 by the Sordide Sentimental label as the " Licht und Blindheit " ( German for "Light and Blindness") package, a France-only limited edition single featuring the track " Dead Souls " as the B-side .