To hire a narrowboat, contact hoseasons.co.uk Lauren Cuthbertson is the Royal Ballet's sole English-born principal ballerina.
He served as the first West Indian-born principal and then vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies, and chancellor of the University of Guyana.
The face of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's charismatic, 30-year-old, Russian-born principal conductor gazes down at you from billboards and posters wherever you go.
During his long association with El Sistema's young players, Sir Simon Rattle – the Merseyside-born principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic – said: "I have seen the future of music".
And this is just one of many references to works by Robbins that Mr. Millepied, a French-born principal dancer with New York City Ballet, makes in "Triade," set to a commissioned score by Nico Muhly.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED / DANSES CONCERTANTES Millepied, the thirty-one-year-old French-born principal dancer at New York City Ballet, has been making ballets for everyone from American Ballet Theatre and the Pacific Northwest Ballet to the Paris Opera Ballet and Baryshnikov.
He served as the first West Indian-born principal and then vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies; chancellor of the University of Guyana; managing director of the United Nations Special Fund; and first president of the Caribbean Development Bank.
Two years ago in an interview with this newspaper, Sir Simon Rattle – Merseyside-born principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic – said of José Antonio Abreu, founder of the miraculous Sistema in Venezuela: "We must have a campaign to get Abreu the Nobel peace prize.
Echoing German-born principal Ole Scheeren's signature streamlined yet avant-garde aesthetic, the scheme shirks away from the hackneyed architectural form that dominates Vancouver's skyline (i.e. buildings with singular widths and depths).
The shortage of experienced principals is driven in part by the retirement of the generation of principals born in or just before the baby boom, a group that has been the spine of the nation's school systems.
