Castro, wearing a baseball jacket over fatigues, served as Cuba's coach, and gave his guest a lesson in tactics: as the game went on, he sneaked young ringers onto the field, disguised with fake beards, which they later tore off, eliciting cheers and laughter from the crowd.
And we played four games against a team against which we were competitive, though, truth be told, we did have a younger Cuban ringer playing shortstop for us.
According to Imogen Holst, a member of the Aldeburgh Youth Club brought Britten's attention to a local ensemble of young handbell ringers; hearing them play, Britten was so enchanted by the sound that he gave the ensemble a major part to play as the rainbow unfolds towards the end of the opera.
But then Katara and Sokka, a waterbender and her protective older brother, happen upon a young boy (Noah Ringer) trapped in a bubble of ice.
THE LAST AIRBENDER Based on the 2005 Nickelodeon animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (a catchy title — why did they change it?), M. Night Shyamalan's 3-D film follows the adventures of a young warrior (Noah Ringer) who can bend earth, air, fire and water to his will.
There is little time to savor Princess Aurora's crucial blossoming into young womanhood, although Jenifer Ringer infuses Aurora's 16th birthday-party choreography with warmth and gaiety.
The Rising Moon was performed by solemn young singers and bell ringers from Cumnock's Greenmill primary and a full-voiced quartet from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
They will need that army of door-bell ringers, mostly young, some of them hopelessly naïve, who believe in a world less trashed by the detritus of convenience-enhancing modernity.
There, he discovers that he's being shadowed by a dead ringer for the young Samuel Beckett.
It looks like having his head shaved was worth it – he's a dead ringer for a young Patrick Stewart.
