As he would be the first to admit, when people celebrate his life and his work they are partly celebrating the people with whom he has lived and worked — fifty years of popular music.
They were no doubt partly celebrating the patriot's strong, if not altogether happy or particularly rooted, connection to the city: in the early 1850's he lived in exile in a cottage (now a small museum) on Staten Island, where he had fled after the collapse of Giuseppe Mazzini's briefly sustained Roman Republic.
"I guess the music is partly celebrating the email, and just using it for what it is.
He's billed as "the most ferociously inventive Scottish writer of his generation", but he's also a prolific visual artist, and the first event ("A Life in Words and Pictures") will partly celebrate his marvellous compendium A Life in Pictures.
Partly to celebrate his 70th birthday, and partly because he has not released an album of his own in nearly two decades (he has, instead, been producing other musicians' discs and writing film music), Mr. Parks built his new "Songs Cycled" CD from tracks he has released on 7-inch singles in recent years.
Partly to celebrate the court's 100th birthday; partly for reasons more profound.
This is how we're catching it: this week, partly to wind down from last week, partly to celebrate the launch of The New Yorker's iPhone edition, we're asking a more reflective question: You know iPhone apps?
It is partly to celebrate Anglo-German artistic exchange, and partly to express the notion that Europe is as importantly a cultural as an economic space, that Chipperfield and Stern co-hoted with the British ambassador their own dinner within the installation in the Neue Nationalgalerie: this time for 120 artistic luminaries and politicians.
I wrote my book, Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs, partly to celebrate the pleasure – and moments of deep sorrow – that I have experienced through my lifelong love of dogs and partly in response to the extraordinary depth of feeling that Nigel has evoked through his appearances on television.
The annual Dylan Thomas Prize – worth £30,000 – was first offered in 2006 to reward young writers, partly to celebrate Thomas as the "quintessential adolescent writer", the organisers said.
He and his wife, Teri, had taken their 19-month-old daughter, Ella, there for the first time, partly to celebrate his two most recent books, a novel and a short-story collection, both written in English and newly translated into Bosnian, his native tongue.
