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...United States, which will culminate in a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center on Nov. 2. Aside from Schubert and Mahler, the Royal Philharmonic repertoire includes Schumann's Piano Concerto, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 8, as well as Respighi's Fountains of Rome, a piece just recorded in the first installment of Gatti's contract with BMG's Conifer Classics label...
...revenge melodrama that makes Hamlet pale in comparision. Set in ancient Rome, it traces the conflict between returning military hero Titus Andronicus (Padriac O'Reilly '98) and the late Emperor's son, Saturninus (Henry Clarke '00), to whom Titus cedes the throne. Trouble arises when Saturninus marries Tamora (Danielle Sherrod), Queen of the subjugated Goths, after being turned down by Titus' daughter, Lavinia, who instead marries Saturninus' younger brother Bassianus (Jesse Conrad '00). For Tamora bears a grudge against Titus and his sons for executing her own eldest son and is determined to seek vengeance. Various complications, and a great...
...abroad in 1996-97 in 30 different countries and received Harvard degree credit for their academic work. Harvard grants credit for academic study abroad representing a unique and compelling educational opportunity not ordinarily available to a student at the College. So, for example, Harvard students study classical archaeology in Rome, rain forest ecology in Cairns, arts and literature in Cape Town, and advanced Chinese language in Beijing...
...Father, you did study in Rome, so you can be Italian be the day," Iannella said to an Irish-American reverend from Boston's St. Patrick's Church, who blessed the breakfast...
...exception was the work of Galen, an immensely productive, Greek-speaking physician who lived much of his life in Rome. By the of his death around A.D. 201, the indefatigable Galen had written some 350 treatises detailing his own experimental work in anatomy and physiology. Although he added much to medical knowledge, his studies were based largely on monkeys and farm animals and thus were frequently unreliable in their conclusions about human anatomy. But the sheer prodigiousness of Galen's output and the aura of infallibility that surrounded him served to perpetuate his errors and stifle further research. His work...