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...numerous internationally-renowned vocal and orchestral early music groups, as well as dozens of smaller, but equally talented, ensembles. “Boston is the birthplace of period instruments and performance,” explains Carole Friedman, the executive director of the prominent orchestra Boston Baroque, which is the oldest period instrument group in North America. The group has sustained its mission to create “world class recordings and performances of baroque and classical repertoire on period instruments” for 35 years, a lineage stretching back to the earliest days of the movement.Around that time, the booming...
...done pretty well with the status quo. We’re not all wealthy and upper class—though a lot of us are—but we’ve all found some way to make the system work for us. Second, we all came to the oldest and best known school in the country. Harvard, to thousands of undergrads and billions around the world, stands for a certain ancient and dignified educational tradition. I’m willing to bet that most Harvard students get a thrill when they’re told that this school...
...This event will be an extremely unique opportunity for anyone interested in the Arts on campus to acquire a vivid sense of how Harvard’s oldest a capella group evolved from a rag-tag foursome to an internationally acclaimed group,” said member Clayton H. Thomas...
...pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function of instructing vulnerable juveniles how to work with a pimp and indoctrinating them into the world's oldest profession. "We see this across the board in terms of pimps using videos to glamorize and glorify the profession," says FBI spokesman Paul Bresson...
...unclear how Shi'ite and Sunni parties will respond to the ambassador's invitation, but the Kurds - Washington's oldest allies in Iraq - are likely to be amenable. "All the doors to a political solution are closed," an influential Kurdish leader told TIME. "This may just be the drastic step necessary to open them up again...