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Welcome to a new feature on the Floating University blog, FU Asks, where we open up the academic debate on our e-learning platform to the Big Think community. This week we're featuring a discussion prompt from Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and
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‘Aida’ (Monday) The Met’s majestic production of this Verdi opera returns with the impressive mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe making her house role debut as Amneris. Violeta Urmana sings Aida, and Marcelo Álvarez is Radamès, the young officer loved by bot
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One of the important things about what makes a work of art is the power of the human imagination to predict something ... Although there have been strong traditions of art that are random... most of what we think is art is the result of people thinking about doing something and being carried away by eit...
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By Barrymore Laurence Scherer 'I'm an occidental woman in an Oriental mood for love," sings the curvaceous Queen of Innuendo, Mae West, sporting a bespangled pseudo-Chinese headdress in the 1936 film "Klondike Annie." The scene is classic West and pure H
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Bard SummerScape 2012 Explores Life and Times of Camille Saint-Saëns with Seven-Week Arts Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley, July 6 – August 19, 2012
PRWebThe Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Photo by Noah Sheldon It has long been one of the most intellectually stimulating of all American summer festivals and frequently is one of the most musically satisfying. —Wall Street
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New York: Erica Schmidt to Direct Molière's The Imaginary Invalid as Part of Bard SummerScape
TheaterMania.com
Among the other highlights of the season are the 23rd Bard Music Festival, "Saint-Saëns and His World," a far-reaching and illuminating program of orchestral, choral, and chamber concerts, as well as preconcert talks and panel discussions, all devoted to
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There has been much debate about the Russian-ness of Stravinsky, who lived and worked away from his native country for most of his life. In a program called "Stravinsky Outside Russia," on Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, the conductor Leon Botstein and
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There has been much debate about the Russian-ness of Stravinsky, who lived and worked away from his native country for most of his life. In a program called “Stravinsky Outside Russia,” on Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, the conductor Leon Botstein and
About Leon Botstein
Wikipedia
Leon Botstein (born 1946 in Switzerland) is an American conductor and the President of Bard College (since 1975). Botstein currently serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Full Article
