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Pilgrims, travelers and conquerors from the 3rd century A.D. onwards have marveled at the two towering Buddha statues of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan. Hewn from sandstone cliffs, these two giants, 53 m and 35 m high, are a fusion of Classical Greek and Indian art that flourished along the ancient...
Harvard at Home will make its debut with three vignettes. The headliner will be a segment called "Rediscovering Homer: Poetry and Performance," an abridged version of a two-day alumni seminar that was given last year by Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy.
Record company executives argue that the popular success of the Three Tenors, Bocelli and even Britain's child soprano Charlotte Church lead a new public to the classical mainstream. Many industry watchers disagree. "The real Three Tenors revolution is a new ethos of corporate thinking," says Christiansen. "It has become...
It's a trend that worries mainstream classical performers. The star cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks of a "vicious circle." Says he: "The way the record companies are working now is dangerous. When you go over and over the same Verdi and Puccini tunes, you shrink the repertoire and the...
The search for the next supertenors accents fears within the classical record industry that its efforts to ape the pop world might bring disasters of operatic proportions. For record bosses the result could be, as the famous aria from Puccini's Turandot has it, Nessun dorma: nobody sleeps.