We'd do a comedy, a new play or two, a classical revival, maybe a couple of modern classics.
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"It is true that any task a classical computer can do, a quantum computer can do, " says Jeff Kimble, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
From a very modern art form to a classical one now, and a site which offers us a unique insight into the work of one of the most famous artists of all time.
The stories come in order of composition, with dates, and in three sections, each of them flagged by a quietly resonant illustration (a view of the planet from outer space, a heavily restored classical fresco, a painting of a spectral cadaver).
But how do you get people to listen to classical music in a profoundly non-classical age?
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In the center would be advocates of a classical gold standard, in which a dollar is defined as a fixed amount of gold.
She was trained as a classical pianist, but never pursued music as a career.
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Soon Mr. Virelles grew more expansive, issuing phrases voiced with a classical pianist's pristine touch, with a jazz player's edge, or just as pure percussive force.
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This promise can be verified every minute of the day by observing the current rate of exchange between the dollar and gold, and, under a classical gold standard, by exchanging currency at a national bank for gold coins of a fixed weight and purity.
In a classical telecommunications system the signal has to be boosted by a repeater every 80km or so.
You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd wandered into the wrong venue and taken your seat for a classical piano recital - all that stands before us is a plain stage and a grand piano.
He pointed to the intricacies of classical music and how you could rarely split one part of a classical song and attach it to another.
The 1763 building was originally a prominent cultural landmark with an entrance decorated in classical portico, a ceiling cupola and a series of gilded columns leading to a hidden courtyard.
Never before have I been able to wrap my mind around what it meant to be a classical composer in the 20th century until I began working on a book about Samuel Barber (whose 100th birthday it is this year).
Rather than a classical design in line with the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, Gehry proposed a progressive design that he said would seize on Eisenhower's modesty.
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FedEx founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
FedEx ( FDX - news - people ) founder Fred Smith (a middling student at Yale by some accounts) is known to be a huge fan of the classical economic scholars, but how awful for all of us if he'd wasted his talent on teaching classical theory over founding a company that employs thousands and makes all of our lives much easier.
There's been kind of a classical dilemma in the field of reporting, saying we have to be objective or we can be a bit of an agitator for social change.
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.
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past.
But it has not been anything like a classical El Nino pattern up until now.
His father, Kidd Jordan, plays avant-garde saxophone, while his mother is a classical pianist.
Hoffman says today nearly every classical violinist plays a few of Kreisler's whimsical pieces.
Simon Boyar, music professor at New York University, doesn't see himself as a classical musician.
Despite her early passion, Ferguson spent the first chunk of her career as a classical musician.
He invited her to improvise with his band and play a classical tune on her own.
Sweden's highest music honour is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.
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Rice, a former Stanford provost and a classical pianist, also plans to bring more Iranian students here.
The last time I tried putting on a classical revival, our single-ticket sales dropped by nearly half.
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