Word: rite
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...Welcome to what George W. Bush envisions as his rite of passage from back-door president to national leader: the selling...
...years, Harvard University Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly has guided undergraduates through the debut performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his popular core course, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances. This fall, Kelley made a debut of his own when his book, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances, was published by Yale University Press. Prof. Kelley recently sat down with The Crimson to discuss books, music and cybersex...
...been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them as such. Other things are masterpieces because you can just look or listen and say, "This is a masterpiece." The Rite of Spring was hated at its premiere. But it was still a masterpiece then, in absolute terms...
Bombay's tiny but influential and prosperous community of Zoroastrians, known around the world as Parsi, is facing a thorny religious problem. The traditional Parsi death rite--the placing of a corpse in a dakhma, a small open-air amphitheater, where it is devoured by birds of prey in about two hours--is threatened...
...annual Harvard rite of passage where seniors dig a bit deeper into their weary wallets to leave a gift to the University began last week, as the chairs of the Senior Gift Committee for the Class of 2001 were announced...