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He was the oldest of six children, having one brother and four sisters, and was named after his father, Clayton Raleigh Fountain. The family moved every 1½ to 2 years. While his father served combat tours in Korea and Vietnam and his mother was working, Clayton, as the oldest child in family, became a surrogate for both parents when he was ...
Clayton is of importance in the history of English music as the first to acclimatise legitimate opera in England, but as a composer his position is summed up in the words of his anonymous contemporary : 'If a reward was to be ordain'd for him that made the worst musick in all the world, the author of Rosamond wou'd have reason to say he had not lost his labour, since he wou'd have an undoubted ...
Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus by Thomas Clayton was the first Italian-style opera (in English) to be staged in England. [1] It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 16 January 1705. [ 2 ] There were various historical women named Arsinoe, but from the mid seventeenth-century the name became popular for fictional characters who, like the ...
Beth Clayton: b. ? American Opera singer L [277] Garrett Clayton: b. 1991 American Actor, singer and dancer G [278] Charles Clegg: 1916–1979 American Author, photographer, railroad historian G [279] Douglas Clegg: b. 1958 American Author G [280] Kerron Clement: b. 1985 Trinidadian-American Track and field athlete G [281] Tyler Clementi: 1991 ...
Thomas Clayton (1575-1647) [1] was the Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford and the first Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. He became the Regius professor in 1611, in succession to his father-in-law Anthony Aylworth (sometimes Aylward); the post subsequently was held by Clayton's son, also called Thomas Clayton .
The Orange County Sheriff's Office identified the victims as William Thomas Collins, 47, and Eric Clayton Hodges, 42, both from Huntington Beach.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) [1] was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971.
The production was a disaster and the opera closed after just three nights. [2]: 32 [1]: 87 Clayton's music was described as ‘a jargon of sounds.’ [2]: 151 Roger Fisk described it as ‘cretinous.’ [1]: 87 Charles Burney said that Addison ‘never manifested a greater want of taste and intelligence in music than when he employed Clayton to set his opera of Rosamond.” [10]