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Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas à Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...
...tank tops to $2,500 Civil War--era Irish-lace wedding gowns. Anna Corinna is always on the lookout for pieces for designers. And though she won't name names, she will offer a glimpse of what could be on the way: "One designer called recently and wanted Cleopatra jewelry. Another was looking for anything with a starfish theme--bags, belts, shoes." Another asked for "Chanel-like things, but a little crazier...
...estate and often some indication of quality, such as "good" and "very, very good." And who is to say that wines like these cannot be made again someday, asks Patrick McGovern, a molecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, including perhaps the mysterious elixir that supposedly drove Cleopatra...
...course, but not a great place to be seen from. Gehry's other masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, stretches out along the Nervion River, across from any number of cafes, where you can kick back and enjoy how it reclines along the water like Cleopatra on her barge. The Disney Hall, which opens this week in a glittery blast of galas and concerts, deserves nothing less. Its silvery cascades are one of the most beautiful sights anywhere in the U.S. If you have seen the Grand Canyon, another sun-drenched, curvy thing of hypnotic power, you have some...
...play full of classic Shakespeare elements, passionate love triangles, jealous women and tragic endings spell out a night on the town. The story of Cleopatra, one of history’s most alluring and powerful women, and Marc Anthony, who is forced to step into the shoes of Caesar, are played by local stars Anne Gottlieb and Robert Pemberton. Runs through October 12. Thursdays at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. $20 students. The Tremont Theatre, 276 Tremont...