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• For $ 89 a year, however, individuals can subscribe to Oxford Reference Online ( www . oxfordreference . com ), which includes a variety of smaller Oxford dictionaries, including the 240, 000-entry Concise Oxford Dictionary and the 180, 000-entry Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, a law dictionary and other resources.
• Most of the following information about Mattia Battistini's performance venues, dates and roles is drawn from " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera " ( second edition, 1980 ), edited by Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack, and " The Record of Singing " ( Volume One, 1977 ), by Michael Scott.
• Their writing style, as they described it, was to write down the first thing that came into their heads, lifting words and phrases from the " Concise Oxford Dictionary ", a " Collected Shakespeare ", and a " Dictionary of Quotations " : " We opened books at random, choosing a word or phrase haphazardly.
• Sources : The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; " The Companion to 20th Century Music " by Norman Lebrecht; " Marian Anderson : Lady From Philadelphia, " by Shirlee Petkin; " Leonard Bernstein, " by Humphrey Burton; " Leonard Bernstein : A Life, " by Meryle Secrest; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet.
• From 1978 until 1983 he served as the Artistic Director of the Weber in English; " German Opera : From the Beginnings to Wagner " ( 2001 ) and the co-author of " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera " ( 1964, with Harold Rosenthal ) and " The Oxford Dictionary of Opera " ( 1992, with Ewan West ).
• The " Concise Oxford Dictionary " ( edited by H . W . & F . G . Fowler, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972 reprint, p . 1516 ) states that a yeoman was " a person qualified by possessing free land of 40 /-( shillings ) annual [ feudal ] value, and who can serve on juries and vote for a Knight of the Shire.
• Ancona is reputed to have made his debut as an amateur singer as far back as 1880; but according to " The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera "  from which many of the ensuing appearance dates, venues and career highlights are taken his earliest known professional appearance in an opera did not occur until 1889, when he sang the role of Scindia in Massenet's " Le roi de Lahore " in Trieste.
• Sources : " 2, 107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions From White Elephants to Song & Dance " by Charles Earle Funk ( Galahad Books, $ 16.95 ); The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations ( Oxford, $ 8.95 ); " Wise Words and Wives'Tales, " by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner ( Avon, $ 9 ); Webster's New World College Dictionary ( MacMillan, $ 21.95)
• Once " NODE " was published, a similarly brand-new edition of the " Concise Oxford Dictionary " followed, this time based on an abridgement of " NODE " rather than the " OED "; " NODE " ( under the new title of the " Oxford Dictionary of English ", or " ODE " ) continues to be principal source for Oxford's product line of current-English dictionaries, including the " New Oxford American Dictionary ", with the " OED " now only serving as the basis for scholarly historical dictionaries.