Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his young years.
Mr. SCHIFRIN: Well, I was 10 years in terms of my classical.
She spent 10 years studying professional dancing, and classical Chinese dance was her major.
The piece, it turns out, was composed by Dena El Saffar, a Chicago-born Iraqi-American who has spent years learning to play the august classical music of her ancestors, the style known as maqam.
Between 1870 and 1912 (the classical gold standard period), a period of forty-two years, industrial production in the United States rose by 682%.
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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.
Contrast that to four years ago, when the inaugural ceremony included Aretha Franklin but also classical musicians such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and others, and the Hollywood types were largely saved for the evening's balls.
Over the past couple of years, some of the greatest artists from Motown, from jazz, classical, Broadway have honored us with their performances.
Lewis, who went on to mastermind the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet for much of the next forty years or so, was only just starting his experiments with baroque and other classical forms, and this piece is probably well enough titled.
And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
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