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Norrington

British  
/ ˈnɒrɪŋtən /

noun

  1. Sir Roger ( Arthur Carver ). born 1934, British conductor; noted for period performances of early music

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Chief Commercial Officer Kyle Norrington will oversee Anheuser-Busch’s U.S. marketing after the departure of Mr. Garbe, who joined the company in 2021.

From Washington Times Nov. 16, 2023

It would take until the 1980s for Roy Goodman, Roger Norrington and others to push period performance into Beethoven, before John Eliot Gardiner led the march through Berlioz, Schumann and Brahms in the 1990s.

From New York Times Jul. 1, 2021

In the end, I’d taken the less challenging option, and, rather than Magdalen, applied to read English Literature at St Edmund Hall, which has mostly languished near the foot of the Norrington Table.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2016

Their son, the actor Jack Davenport, is best known for playing Commodore Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2013

It was a letter from the Bishop of the diocese, suggesting that Mr. Curzon should accept the living of Norrington, a populous town some thirty miles away.

From The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

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