Word: burgundian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works of Beethoven, Mozart, and Vivaldi--Burgundian Ensemble of New York; Boris Bloch, 1978 first prize winner in the Busoni competition, piano; Douglas Montgomery, piano; paine Hall...
...wine lovers around the world, a momentous annual ritual is the wine auction in the Burgundian city of Beaune. Technically, it is a charity sale: for the past 127 years, the auction has been the principal source of support for the Hospices de Beaune, a hospital that has been in continuous operation since 1443. In practice, the sale of wine from its Premier and Grand Cru vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy...
...jovial lunch as we fell to at table. Grover, a bachelor, rarely gave his gifted cook an opportunity to prepare the hearty Burgundian meals in which she specialized, so now for the great General Eisenhower she had outdone herself. The wine went round and round, the pastries of ham-curls stuffed with goose liver piled...
With this ringing rhetoric, delivered to an audience of 20,000 under a huge tent in the small Burgundian town of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing finally jumped into his country's roiling political campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there...
Collegium losquinium--Fogg at 8 pm (15th and 16th C. Burgundian and French Songs and Dances...