A comparison between Virgil's hero, Aeneas, and the Homeric heroes, Achilles and Odysseus, brings up the question concerning the relevance of the difference between the Homeric heroes and Aeneas. The ...
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Damascus (dpa) - Solhi al-Wadi, the doyen of classical music in
Syria, died early Sunday at al-Shami Hospital in Damascus, Syria's
official News Agency reported. He was 75. ...
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The past three weeks at B.A.M. were given over to a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Mark Morris Dance Group—a proper cause for celebration. Morris chose to present a retrospective ...
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The past three weeks at B.A.M. were given over to a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Mark Morris Dance Group—a proper cause for celebration. Morris chose to present a retrospective ...
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I once asked the late, esteemed voice teacher Beverley Johnson what distinguished a truly great singer. “An inner light,” she said. “Whether you’re talking about Piaf or Pav...
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I once asked the late, esteemed voice teacher Beverley Johnson what distinguished a truly great singer. “An inner light,” she said. “Whether you’re talking about Piaf or Pav...
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Federico da Montefeltro has one of the most memorable noses in Western art. Thanks to the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, whose portrait of Federico is a prize of the Uffizi Gallery in Fl...
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Through Jan. 27, Mark Morris is presenting a program of chamber works in the pleasant chamber theater (it seats 140) on the fifth floor of his spacious dance center opposite B.A.M. The featured att...
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Puglia has some of the brightest seas, most diverse art and architecture, most mouthwatering peasant cuisine and kindest people in all of Italy - including strangers who will go out of their way to...
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When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem."The glass vases on the shelf rattled, and there was a loud bang," Cath...
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Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through a bad patch. Although he has a fanatically faithful audience and a splendid new facility in Broo...
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Aeneas and Homeric Heros
Solhi Al-Wadi, doyen of Syrian classical music, dies at 75
