Opera singer Maria Ewing, wife of Peter Hall, dead at 71
DETROIT — (AP) — Maria Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, has died at age 71. Ewing met Peter Hall in 1978 when she sang Dorabella in a staging of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” at Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival directed by Hall and led by conductor Bernard Haitink. Ewing married Hall, a founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and then director of Britain’s National Theatre, in 1982. “The Met has no manners,″ Ewing and Hall told the Chicago Tribune. Hall directed Ewing in 1986 in the title role of Strauss’ “Salome” at the LA Opera, in which she stripped to fully nude at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
wftv.comU.S. appeals court voids 'shockingly low' 17-year sentence in NY terrorism case
Such errors caused the district court to render a sentence that is shockingly low and unsupportable as a matter of law, Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes wrote for the majority. Mumuni had pleaded guilty in Feb. 2017 to an indictment charging him with trying to aid Islamic state, attempted murder of federal officers, and assaulting federal officers. Circuit Judge Peter Hall, who dissented, said he feared the majority would prefer to substitute its sentencing preference for that of the district court, but agreed that the case should be returned to Brodie so she could better explain her reasoning. The United States designates Islamic State a foreign terrorist organization. Circuit Court of Appeals, No.
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