Word: xv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have become familiar to Solti throughout the U.S. and Europe. In addition to conducting the Chicago Symphony for twelve weeks this season, he devoted ten weeks to the Orchestre de Paris (he also serves as its music director). A month ago, at the 700-seat Opéra Louis XV at the Versailles Palace, he led an exquisitely wrought performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro by the Paris Opéra (he serves as that company's music adviser). In London, which he calls home these days, Solti regularly guest-conducts the London Philharmonic for a month...
...Jesuits rose to eminence in the two centuries that followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored for decades to impress the Emperor and the powerful mandarin scholars with their own impeccable scholarship, eventually becoming keepers of the imperial calendar. But this opportunity to win China for Christianity was lost when Rome denied the missionaries' pleas that Chinese converts be left undisturbed in their Confucian reverence for their...
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM madrigals and chansons of the XV-XX Century: director F. John Adams Loeb Mainstage...
...Palace, newsmen fairly gaped in astonishment. In one stroke, the salons where President Georges Pompidou does much of his entertaining had been transformed from pre-Bastille to post-Kubrick. Gone from the palace (built in 1718) were the murky frescoes, the gilt-edged mirrors, the priceless Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The anteroom where guests are greeted is now a blast of color and light, designed by Israeli Op Artist Yaacov Agam and dominated by his wall-size "kinetic" murals...
...minds for thousands of years. The ancient Greek Theophrastus believed truffles were a product of thunder. In the Middle Ages they were considered evil things grown from the spit of witches. Later they came to be prized as an aphrodisiac, and Madame de Pompadour fed them to Louis XV. Napoleon, who was having difficulty fathering children, begat his only legitimate son after eating a truffled turkey. He promoted a lieutenant to colonel for having given him the recipe. In 1825, Brillat-Savarin, the savant of haute cuisine, called truffles "the diamonds of gastronomy...