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Provides a portrait of the highly decorated R.A.F. fighter pilot feared by the Nazi Luftwaffe and who is one of only two men to receive a second bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross
Robert Hoffman was hired in 1966 to start a newspaper on the Caribbean island of Antigua by R Allen Stanford, who was in February of 2009 charged by the federal government for running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. Hoffman has written this account of his days with Stanford and how "Sir Allen" was at the centre of one of the most spectacular financial collapses in modern history.
'Jeremy Dibble has written a book which adds substantially to Stanford's reputation and which greatly enriches both British and Irish musical scholarship. It is brilliantly done.' -Irish TimesJeremy Dibble presents the first authoritative, comprehensive study of the life and works of Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), one of the most gifted and influential composers. Dibble reveals how, although perhaps best known for his church music, Stanford was also an eminent symphonist, songwriter, and author of many fine choral works. Cosmopolitan, ambitious, and pragmatic, he was untiring in his efforts to advance the cause of British music during its renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century, promoting the music of his contemporaries, and the many pupils he taught at Cambridge and the Royal College of Music, including Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Howells, Bliss, Holst, and Gurney.
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