Monteverdi, the son of a barber-surgeon and chemist, studied with the director ofmusicatCremonacathedral,Marcantonio Ingegneri, a well-known musician who wrote church music andmadrigalsof some distinction in an up-to-date though not revolutionary style of the 1570s. Monteverdi was obviously apreco...
This second group is clearly very important — it’s thanks to them encyclopedias have a consistent look and tone — but it’s a severe exaggeration to say that they wrote the encyclopedia. One imagines the people running Britannica worry more about their contributors than their formatters....
As if inspired by feelings of social and national renewal, he wrote within one year an immense quantity of new music: he composed two sonatas, the Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, the Classical Symphony, and the choral work Seven, They Are Seven; he began the magnificent Piano Concerto...
When she wrote it was in order to provide a history of her times and an insight into what made her family so strange. Like many of her generation she did not write much about her own feelings and her humourous and optimistic nature does not really come through in her writing. I would...
•••"I heard as clearly as if the speaker were only across a 12-foot room" wrote the newsman. •••When the article appeared on January 10, 1902, Stubblefield was besieged by capitalists, financiers, stock-jugglers, hucksters and hawkers. Dr. Mason recalled seeing a $40,000 ...
People wrote that the pineapple exceeded all other fruits in quote “beauty of appearance, delicate fragrance, excellent flavor,” that it was quote “more delicious than any sweet apple sugared.” BEAUMAN: I was sort of overwhelmed in my research by the number of times that it was mentioned...
write you this account” is from theInfancy Gospel of Thomas. These gospels are rejected both by the church and by scholars despite these claims of eyewitness testimony. Why then imagine that the vague “This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down; we know tha...
When John wrote this Revelation, telling us to COUNT the number of the Beast, he wrote in the GREEK language. Consequently, we should look for this name, and the number 666, in this language recognized in the BIBLE, not in the Latin. We are all familiar with the Roman numerals, where...
Sand was actively engaged in Paris politics and openly wrote about her political views, something which was heavily frowned upon for women during her time. She wrote from a young age in support of women’s rights and the challenges of the poor and working class. ...
When John wrote this Revelation, telling us to count the number of the beast, he wrote in Greek, so we should look for this name, and the number 666, in this language recognized in the Bible, not in the Latin. We are all familiar with the Roman numerals, where letters are used for...