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Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra perform in Classical Showcase at the Dock Street Theatre during the 2019 season of Spoleto Festival USA
Teatro Colon (2,847 seats), Buenos Aires, completed in 1908 after two decades under construction, it has attracted since the biggest names in opera from Caruso and Toscanini to Callas, Pavaroti, and Domingo.
Late Classical period, ca. 375-350 BCE
Made at Falerii (Veteres)
Gruppo delle Coppe Falische, sottogruppo α
Internal decoration attributed to the Painter of Villa Giulia 43800
Found at Civita Castellana (ancient Falerii; see on Pleiades), Penna necropolis, Tomb 11 (CXIV), chamber tomb with multiple depositions
Photographed on display in the Museo Archeologico dell'Agro Falisco - Forte Sangallo, Civita Castellana, Lazio, Italy
Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden celebrated the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with a public day of activities and festivities on September 30th.
This garden was ranked in 2011 by National Geographic as "top city garden" in the world.
This wonderful guy was busking just by ours the other day he was very entertaining.
He knew 99.9 % of his notes, but when he hit one of the 0.1% he had the wonderful gift of raising one eyebrow, absolute hilarity. Well worth a quid!
Quarto, manuscript in sepia ink on laid paper, 48 pp plus endpapers, one of which is also the title page, also manuscript. Orchestral parts labeled on each page.
Orchestral parts of Beethoven's Overture (Op. 84) for an 1811 production of Goethe's 1787 play The Tragedy Of Egmont, revived during Napoleon's ongoing conquest of Europe.
On laid paper. The endpapers are watermarked JAN KOOL & COMP, which appears as early as 1809 but whose watermark appears on paper from around 1820 (Earliest I've found is 1816). The score is written on papers watermarked with a crowned fleur-de-lys under which is C & I HONIG, from a papermaker which operated under that name from about 1770 until going under in the 1850s.
Title page of the symphony orchestra score, with inkstamps "MUSIS SACRUM 1828" at the top and "A. LE LIÉVRE" top and bottom. The Musis Sacrum stamp appears on a few later pages.
Abraham Le Lievre (1799-1860) was a Leiden music teacher, known b his students as The Swearing Hare, a play on his last name, which is French for "hare." In 1828 he founded Musis Sacrum (Latin for "consecrated to the Muses"), a classical music appreciation society dedicated to promoting music among the bourgeoisie and that organized its own symphony and chamber orchestras. Musis Sacrum was active from 1828 until becoming dormant ten years after Le Lievre's death, after which it was revived from 1880 until about 1900. It is unrelated to the Arnhem symphony hall founded under the same name in the 1840s. (Wikipedia)
I do not know when Le Lievre acquired this manuscript, which appears to date to the 1820s. I have not found any other manuscripts online that belonged to his collection, nor much of anything else about the organization.
Greek Early Classical period, ca. 475-460 BCE
Made at Athens, attributed to vase-painter Hermonax (by Beazley)
Formerly in the Giudice collection at Agrigento (see on Pleiades)
In the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Gift of Henry and Walter Keney, 1930.184
www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/AE8086E2-CA47-46D2-BF71-891E2...
Ephesus is justly famed as one of the finest ancient Roman sites anywhere. The ruins of the city are extensive with many impressive monuments to amaze the visitor (that have often been partially reassembled to give an indication of their former glory and context).
Unfortunately the fame and popularity of the site means that, unlike most of the classical sites we visited elsewhere, it is constantly crowded with tourists. However the city has always attracted visitors, and among those who spent time here centuries ago were St Paul and St John (and possibly Mary herself if one believes in the authenticity of her nearby residence).