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...this time of year, the city's cultural season is in full force. Renzo Piano's new complex, Parco della Musica, houses the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia as well as the city's most important musical events in three separate halls. In December the Rome Opera House will have Lo Schiaccianoci, otherwise known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed...
Saturday, Oct. 29. Copland, Stravinsky, Concerto Competition. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the country, kicks off its 2005-2006 season with several blockbuster pieces, including Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available online, at the Harvard Box Office, or by subscription...
Friday, Dec. 2—Saturday Dec. 3. Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Haydn. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra takes on such classics as Haydn’s “Te Deum” and Beethoven’s “Fidelio Overture,” accompanied by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, online, or by subscription...
Sponsored by the Office for the Arts, this concert features performances by the Asian American Dance Troupe, BlackCAST, Fallen Angels, the Jazz Band, the Kroks, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, the LowKeys, Steppers, and Kuumba. Saturday, October 15, 9 p.m., Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...
...president and his first lady, Laura Bush, threw a reception for world leaders in the hotel's "Starlight Roof" ballroom, complete with an orchestra, servers in toques, votive candles in the elevator lobby and signs-reminiscent of a campaign fund-raiser-directing guests to the "Photo-Op/Receiving Line." On Wednesday morning, Bush addressed delegates, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, in the massive General Assembly Hall, where he was introduced as "His Excellency." Although providing Bush with an annual opportunity to be Mr. Multilateralist, these occasions must be about as comfortable for him as walking to the rostrum of the Democratic...