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First, the word "classical". If it were spelled with a capital "C", it would denote a very narrow body of music composed primarily during the second half of the eighteenth century, according to a number of more-or-less definite rules guiding the practice of composition. In this sense, the only truly Classical composers are people like Haydn and Mozart (and even this comes under debate). Neither Bach nor Wagner would qualify...
...Montreal Star's music critic said of a revival this week of an eighteenth-century Italian opera, `L'Olimpiade,' that it lacked focus. In the main Olympiad, the focus has been on East Germany, with the strains of whose national anthem we are now as well acquainted as with `Aida...
Ukraine's demands are likely to meet stiff resistance. The Soviet armed services, and specifically the Strategic Rocket Forces, are almost the only institution left in the country still operating under genuine central control. Eighteenth century Prussia, according to an old wisecrack, was not a country with an army but an army with a country. The Soviet Union today could almost be defined as an army without a country. Gorbachev and his generals will hardly be eager to see their control diluted. Before the referendum, in fact, the Soviet Defense Ministry pointedly told troops in Ukraine, including those controlling nuclear...
...Crimson just barely lost to the ninth-ranked and undefeated Big Red, 9-8, on the turf at Cornell. And even if Brown did blow out eighteenth-ranked Post, 18-8, the Pioneers have the talent to beat just about anyone...
Edward Higginbottom, a music director and faculty member of New College at Oxford, has come to Harvard for a week to guide the singers through the mid-eighteenth century piece...