Word: patronizer
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...case of classical music, audience size has had a long and politically colored history. It began as holy music in medieval churches, soon expanded to embrace aristocrats as a matter of theocratic course and extended to intellectuals in the Renaissance. Because composers relied on wealthy patrons to survive, the audience did not change significantly until the late 18th century. Beethoven, full of libertarian ideas and the furor of the French Revolution, threw open the doors of classical music to the middle classes by the boldness of his work and his status as (after several years) the first major patron-less...
Crimson Key Society, President; Evening with Champions, Patron and Sponsors Co-Chair; Harvard Prefect Program; Institute of Politics; Eliot House HAND Program...
...Square. To do so would be an act of disloyalty and betrayal to the very core of Harvard's social life, the centerpiece of all weekend plans. From the Quad, the Yard, the river houses, and the finals clubs, we all come to pay homage to the patron deity of our social world...
Paul Hahn '98, a first-time patron of the new Kinko's location was not quite as positive about the move...
...from around Sarajevo. The general's defiance immediately generated international rumors that a rift had emerged between Mladic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral in this war. Serbs have long complained that the Muslims can go out on sorties against them and then retreat to safe areas to be protected...