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ORPHEUS. In the sixth century BCE, a religious movement that modern historians call Orphism appeared in Greece around the figure of Orpheus, the Thracian enchanter. The features of this movement, and even its existence, have been subjects of debate...
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Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronounced in English as ['ɔ(ɹ).fi.əs] (ohr'-fee-uhs) or ['ɔ(ɹ).fjuːs] (ohr'-fews)) is a figure from Greek mythology, king of the Thracian tribe Cicones, called by Pindar "the father of songs". His name does not occur...


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The Washington Post
Orpheus Ascending
02/01/2000: 481 words, approx. 2 pages
An ice storm and a big football game kept attendance low at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Sunday afternoon performance. The Kennedy Center Terrace Theater had more open seats than occupied ones, and even the scheduled piano soloist, Radu Lupu, was unable to make it...
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The Washington Post
Orpheus In London
11/29/1987: 1,461 words, approx. 5 pages
THE MEDUSA FREQUENCY By Russell Hoban Atlantic Monthly Press. 143 pp. $16.95 IN CHILDREN'S literature anything is possible. Mickey may fall out of his clothes into the night kitchen, where the bakers all look like Oliver Hardy. James will go adventuring aboard a giant...
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The New York Observer
Curiouser and Curiouser! Ruhl Wrecks Eurydice With Whimsy
6/19/2007: 598 words, approx. 2 pages
It was the mighty Kenneth Tynan who said that among the things he could live without in the theater are Everyman characters with pretentious names like “Mr. Adam” or “Mr. Zero.” I wonder how he might have felt about Sarah Ruhl’s interpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice...
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans going well
2/20/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
Though the climax of Mardi Gras is still to come, official data so far from the second celebration since Hurricane Katrina shows a city on the rebound.Last year's festivities were scaled down _ fewer parades and only about 13,000 hotel rooms available. This year there...
 


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