Three years later, the council acknowledged his achievements and Godfrey was appointed general manager of the Winter Gardens. The evening was a big success, and the band went on to perform three concerts a day throughout the coming summer months. The first concert to take place in the venue was performed on 22 nd May 1893 to an audience of approximately 10,000 people who crammed into the building, causing overcrowding. The new ensemble would be named the Bournemouth Corporation Band, and its home would be in the under utilised Winter Gardens. He was tasked with assembling a thirty strong band of musicians, supplying suitable clothing and organising a schedule of classical concerts. After a search to find an appropriate candidate, they handed a contract worth £95 a week to a twenty-four-year-old Londoner, Dan Godfrey, who came from a dynasty of distinguished bandmasters. In the early 1890s, the Bournemouth Council decided the town would benefit from a full-time group of musicians to entertain the locals and visiting holidaymakers. It was an enormous glass structure that housed a wide variety of shrubs and floral displays interspersed with exhibition space and areas for public entertainments. Opened on 16 th January 1877 by the MP Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, the original Crystal Palace and Winter Gardens was built on an open space called Cranbourne Gardens, once a favourite spot of the town’s founder, Lewis Tregonwell.
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In this groundbreaking and revelatory work, renowned criminologist Elliott Currie offers a vivid critique of our nation's prison policies and turns his penetrating eye toward recent developments in criminal justice, showing us the path to a more peaceable and just society. Today, there are several hundred thousand more inmates in the penal system, yet violence remains endemic in many American communities. When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remained-by an overwhelming margin-the most violent industrialized society in the world. "Earnest, free of jargon, lucid.This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America."-The Washington Post Book World The parallels to Shakespeare’s play are often self-conscious and belabored, drawn at odd moments in the story. 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Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King's power. And they never will."Īlessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power:ģ) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself. "They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King, is back with an epic YA tale of ambition and love in The Shadows Between Us. Shakespeare uses powerful entities like the lion which is potentially ‘the King of the jungle’ to portray their vulnerability against Time. In this quotation, the image of the lion’s sharp paws becoming ‘blunt’ – which is used to describe something not sharp and worn out – suggests how Time has taken away the lion’s ability to hunt, and therefore survive. “Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws…”. 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