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Elizabeth II. Charles III. Preceded by. Peter Maxwell Davies. Website. www .judithweir .com. Dame Judith Weir DBE HonFRSE (born 11 May 1954 [1]) is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music. Appointed in 2014 by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir is the first woman to hold this office.
Dead & Company is an American rock band that formed in 2015 with a lineup of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir (guitar and vocals), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums), along with John Mayer (guitar and vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass, percussion, and vocals), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards).
Weir was born in Wallington, part of the London Borough of Sutton. [2] He cannot use his legs due to a congenital spinal cord transection. [1] As a child he was a talented wheelchair athlete, representing Sutton in wheelchair athletics at the London Youth Games, and won the junior event at the London marathon (the mini wheelchair race) seven times.
Andrew Taylor Weir (/ w i r /; born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist. [2] His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott . He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016 [ 3 ] and his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel .
96 km (60 mi) The River Wear ( / ˈwɪər / ⓘ, WEER) in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland. At 60 mi (97 km) long, it is one of the region's longest rivers. The Wear wends in a steep valley through the cathedral city of Durham and gives its name ...
8 July 1987. ( 1987-07-08) Kent Opera. A Night at the Chinese Opera is an opera in three acts by Judith Weir, who also wrote the libretto. Aside from an earlier opera for children, this was Weir's first full-scale opera, written on commission from the BBC for performance by Kent Opera. Weir incorporated an early Chinese play of the Yuan dynasty ...
The Thick of It is a British television comedy programme that premiered in 2005 on BBC Four.The series satirises the inner workings of modern British government.It follows the running of a fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, and most episodes focus on that department's incumbent minister and a core cast of advisors and civil servants, under the watchful eye of Number 10's ...
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