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...winter there is skiing an hour's drive away at Unteragerei or Zugerberg. In summer the mountains are carpeted in wildflowers. The lake offers excellent sailing and is surrounded by highly ranked golf courses. Just half an hour away are the world-class opera, symphony and shopping of Zurich and Lucerne...
...Love/ that has warm’d us./ In spite of the weather/ He brought us together.” These lines were sung during what was, perhaps, the most compelling scene in the Harvard Early Music Society’s (HEMS) annual operatic production, the semi-opera “King Arthur.” The lines were especially appropriate for the show, considering that it premiered on a particularly cold Thursday.“King Arthur” brought heroes, spirits, magicians, and talented musicians to Agassiz Theatre. Music director Matthew J. Hall ’09, stage...
...whole point [is] to not be too in-your-face or condescending”—to present your argument simply, without over-simplifying.Ross manages the spectacular feat of making this crazy music seem logical by taking a modular approach. Rather than trying to pack every opera, symphony, and concert into one narrative, he subdivides relentlessly and then assembles and reassembles the pieces to suit his arguments. (For music theorists, the technique is similar to twelve-tone composition.) Thus, he tracks simultaneous developments like Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal school in Austria and the early jazz compositions of little...
...quantum chemist and full professor at Berlin's Humboldt University, he is said to resent being called Herr Merkel, even in jest. German tabloids have dubbed him the "Phantom of the Opera" because of his tendency to show up only at the Bayreuth opera festival, while preferring to avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made...
...take away from the view of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the most beautiful shopping mall in the world. The 19th century Galleria was originally built to connect Piazza della Scala, home to La Scala opera house, and Piazza Duomo, with its magnificent Gothic cathedral. Under a vaulted glass roof and handpainted frescoes, the mall now has cafés, restaurants, boutiques - and only one hotel...