History's first great horsemen (and not coincidentally first trouser-wearers), the Scythians galloped across the steppes, impressing the classical world with both their knack for accessorizing and their chilling ferocity.
Much debate is currently raging around the classical music world over "crossover" artists - classical performers who are marketed to appeal to a mainstream audience.
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With his place in the classical music world secure, Anantawan now wants to focus on helping others like him.
From singer-songwriters to classical, world music, and Broadway stars, it's a celebration of the diversity of our thriving musical culture.
Glenn Gould became famous in the classical music world largely through his performance of an obscure group of pieces by J.
The way these two surveys approach classical music, beautifully frames two key aspects of the classical music world today: availability and affordability.
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.
The glamorous presenter of The Screening Room has moved from the pop world to classical music, jungle survival to TV presenting.
And that's why they're here -- to show you that if you follow that passion and never give up, you too can claim your place in the world of classical music.
Fischer-Dieskau, who died on May 18th, at the age of eighty-six, loomed so large in the world of classical music that he became something like a city monument a statue that no longer fully registers with the crowds hurrying by.
The world of classical music had become a place without boundaries for him during the two years he spent as a boy in post-war Vienna, where his father edited a newspaper published for Austrians by the Russian occupying forces.
What about the wide array of distractions on offer in the West such as video games and television, not to mention the low regard many young people have for the world of classical music, which is still considered stuffy and uncool?
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Wiley's work, now more than ever, pushes the lines between design and high art, reinventing classical portraiture for a contemporary world.
He said Sweet Caroline singer Diamond had "created one of the most enduring catalogues of American popular music" and called Ma "one of the most versatile and popular classical music performers in the world".
The world famous BBC Proms classical concert season continues until 8 September, with recitals of Bach (1 September), Beethoven (6 September) and Strauss (7 September) taking place during the Paralympics.
Matt Haimovitz is among the world's finest classical cellists.
The traditional finale to the BBC Proms is one of the world's most popular classical music concerts.
Though just a kid, our Thanksgiving birthday party was a magical initiation into a secret adult world of fancy rooms, classical music, tinkling cocktails and wink-wink innuendoes.
An opera by Gioachino Rossini has been broadcast live over the internet for the first time in Vienna, giving audiences around the world free access to a classical production.
What Rushkoff and Malik are describing is a new experience of physics for humans, more akin to magic or at least quantum mechanics than to the classical Newtonian physics on which the modern world was based.
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Like the shift from modern to post-modernist art and architecture, where we encountered architects like Michael Graves and Richard Meier who blended modern purity with classical touches, we are entering a world where digital innovation is merging with traditional marketing fundamentals to create new approaches, new brand leaders, and new models for success.
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Neo-liberalism is a term used by the left to describe the modern school of economics which attempts to move the world towards free-markets (classical liberalism) and away from various forms of central control.
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The fact of the matter is, most countries in the world today have some variant of a Classical approach.
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To make their case, they cite Thomas Aquinas, to ground their argument that the stochastic and random elements at work in the world, are not incompatible with a classical Christian understanding of God.
Others in the running for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, a sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.
In the uncertain world of the arts, the composer of classical music risks having the most frustrating of careers.
Those programs, though, frequently offer world-renowned artists. (And with classical music, you don't expect much movement, anyway.) At the WiredArts Fest, with its new, unusual, or low-budget work, and without big stars, the speed does help keep your eye engaged, especially for dance.
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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.
As the Three Tenors, he, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sold out stadiums around the world, and their accompanying CD was one of the biggest-selling classical recordings of all time.
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