Its offerings run the gamut from the edgy outpourings of Central St Martins, a well-known fashion college, to the classical style anglais.

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Whitehall Palace - to replace the earlier complex of the same name - was the dream of Inigo Jones, the first English architect to design in the Classical style.

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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.

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He took classical piano lessons as a child which later contributed to the fusion style of The Doors' music.

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Courtyards work with any style of home, from modern to classical, but the designs are particularly popular in warmer climates, where courtyards induce airflow.

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Early on, Moser developed his own style, inspired by classical American designs -- all hewn from black cherry raised in the Allegheny Plateau in western Pennsylvania.

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The last movie by the Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray is a modest picture, a graceful domestic comedy made in a serene, leisurely classical style.

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Breton musicians with classical training such as Alan Stivell, the harpist, or Didier Squiban, the pianist, play in a sophisticated style of their own.

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