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LIVERPUDLIANS PLAY AN UNUSUAL SUK WORK.(Living)
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Byline: Daniel J. Wakin Associated Press
The idea of Josef Suk's sprawling Symphony No. 1 falls just short of being better than the music itself.
Suk planned it as a monument to Antonin Dvorak, his beloved teacher and father-in-law, who died in 1904. Three movements into the work and a year later, Suk's 27-year- old wife Otylka died.
The grief-stricken violinist recast his plans for the last two movements into an anguished memorial to her. He called the piece "Asrael," after the Muslim angel of death.
The C minor symphony has found a ...
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Acropolis Restorers Unveil Copy of Column
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; ...to have survived from the Ionic capitals. "What one sees here is precisely like the original that the ancient architect Mnesicles, who designed the building, had in his hands before the final coloring was applied," Tanoulas said. The Propylaea was...
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Acropolis restorers unveil marble copy of capital carved in the ancient way
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; ...member to be ever made," Tanoulas said. "What one sees here is precisely like the original that the ancient architect Mnesicles, who designed the building, had in his hands before the final coloring was applied." The Propylaea was built between 437...
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