Mr. Davis's New-Age-meets-classical Christmas-music ensemble, now made up of two large bands who crisscross the country during the holidays, has sold more than 28 million Christmas records.
It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution.
She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.
It has propelled Lang Lang to the very top of his profession, touring at a frenetic pace and collaborating with his musical hero, Herbie Hancock, in a jazz-meets-classical concert series.
But between classical disc-jockeying, slaving at Tower Records ( The Tower That Fell), and writing for classical radio stations, we have channeled our experience to come up with a generic model-listener who has appreciation written all over him or her (enough to have read on thus far), but relatively littleprevious exposure.
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Jazz legend Herbie Hancock saw one future of music when he was blown away by the piano skills of 14-year-old Jennifer Lin , awed by a classical maestro with full-bore improvisational chops.
That was in 1963, at a time when the classical-music establishment was still in thrall to the postwar professoriate of Austro-German composers and their foreign epigones who believed that the future of music lay not with traditional harmony but with Schoenberg-style serialism.
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The traditional format of a classical-music concert turns off the iPod generation, says Alan Brown, principal of arts-research firm Wolf Brown, which is studying alternative approaches for the New World Symphony.
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The drama between Facebooka and Zynga, seems to be playing out in the classical five-act form.
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The format may throw some off but this is a serious business book, just not in the classical wall-of-text-plus-some-scatted-diagrams.
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Even before you add music you will see they have started you off with some classical numbers - a classy touch.
Hamilton Airship, a South African company, is taking a similar approach, but has updated the classical rigid-airship design with a novel twist.
When the modern mind shifted away from a designed world to one governed by blind, evolutionary processes, the classical free-market consensus began to erode.
While we ate and Lang and Eschenbach gossiped a little about the classical-music world, a large television tuned to CCTV murmured on the wall.
From a classical risk-reward perspective, it is simply not worth it.
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Sheldon thinks that later evolved into a personal mission to ensure the spirit of classical music -- and the work of the Russian greats -- does not die.
By that time he had learned from his travels and examination of ancient sites that a classical-modern synthesis was not only possible but vital to creating timeless architecture.
Veteran classical-music fans find their way to Metropolis, too.
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Nikini, who went to King Edward VI High School (for girls), had taken French, maths, further maths and classical civilisation - a subject in which she came in the top five in the country.
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Classical-music audiences, for instance, tend to be mostly quiet and strikingly attentive, but also a bit inhibited, perhaps because many of the people who come to concerts are afraid of clapping at the wrong time.
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Under the classical gold-coin standard (1717-1914) private banks and central banks alike issued currency convertible into a fixed weight of gold, with balance sheets consisting primarily of gold coins and short-term loans denominated in local (but gold-convertible) money.
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Meanwhile, a smaller share of Americans are going to classical-music concerts, and many who do attend are visiting less often, instead of buying season passes, said Jesse Rosen, chief executive officer of the League of American Orchestras, a trade organization.
This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.
The Naxos Music Library (and versatile Qobuz) offers a well honed, classical-only streaming experience with plenty of relevant information, and Immerseel on both services, but on the Naxos Music Library only select early Beethoven recordings of Karajan (made for HMV with the Philharmonia Orchestra, now EMI, just sold to Warner as part of the Parlophone auction) are available, and early post-war broadcasts from Berlin (Audite).
His partly-built house, a neo-classical mansion called Hamilton Palace, is on the estate the footpath crosses near Uckfield in East Sussex.
There are delicately delineated competition entries submitted jointly in the 1930s by father and son, including the prize-winning, streamlined, stripped-classical modernist scheme of 1939 for a new Smithsonian art gallery on the Washington Mall, never built because neither the sponsors nor the public were ready for it.
In Mr. Gomes's showcase, Jorma Elo's awkwardly titled "Still of King, " the dancer looked ballet-classical in uncredited costuming of cream tights and crepe-de-chine "Romantic" shirt, but the classic costume design turned out to be a gag for the choreographer.
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The post-1914 era was no gold-standard period, certainly not in the classical sense of there being adhered-to, multi-lateral consensus about sticking to gold conventions.
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The weaknesses of neo-classical free market economics have been exposed by the credit super-cycle, whilst the likelihood of a return to Keynesian management is remote (not least because of existing burdens of debt and welfare commitments).
But how do you get people to listen to classical music in a profoundly non-classical age?
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