 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Transcendental Meditation promoted for use in schools; Some say it leads to academic success by helping students focus, but there are many critics
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FAIRFIELD, Iowa - Here in the American headquarters of
Transcendental Meditation, people like to brag that, much as in
Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon, "all the children are
above average."
"The children are so enthusiastic to do things - competitions,
academics, and so on," said Ashley Deans, headmaster of Maharishi
School of the Age of Enlightenment, a private K-12 academy with about
300 students. "And when they enter it, they win it - time and time
again."
The secret, school officials say, is Transcendental Meditation -
the practice of invoking a state of deep relaxation by ...
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Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis samtlicher Werke von Daniel Francois Esprit Auber (AWV).
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...margins of the repertory. The neglect of Auber today contrasts strikingly with his popularity...youngsters who could not yet reach an octave. Auber's music became the basis for a staggering...authentic versions, including a revision by Auber himself in 1857, for the rest of the century...
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AUBER: Les Diamants de la Couronne
Magazine article from: Opera News
; AUBER: Les Diamants de la Couronne * Raphanel...Harmonic Mundi, dist.) Think of Daniel-Francois Esprit Auber (1782-1871) as the Garry Marshall of French opera. Auber's operas are diverting, formulaic...
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The endangered list
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...that you want never to end. Auber: Manon Lescaut. Predating Massenet...Puccini's by thirty-seven, Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber's operacomique setting of a...hands. The reputation of Saint Francois seems to grow with each performance...
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New Releases: Classical
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...rare opportunity to exercise his comic skills. Auber: Le Domino Noir; Gustave III Overture and Ballet Music (London 440-646, two CDs with libretto). Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1874) is remembered today chiefly for...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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Classical Music.(Arts-Events)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; Aston Magna Festival Daniel Arts Center, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington...Grand Opera Before Wagner." Excerpts from operas by Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Pacini...
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'La Muette de Portici': Kristische Ausgabe des Librettos und Dokumentation der ersten Inszenierung.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Portici was premiered on 9 February 1828, and marks the beginnings of grand opera. The collaboration between Daniel-Francois Esprit Auber, Eugene Scribe, Germain Delavigne, and the artistic skills of the Acadamie royale de musique was the first...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Denmark, 1182; August Wilhelm von Schlegel, poet and critic, 1845; Sir Charles Barry, architect, 1860; Daniel- Francois-Esprit Auber, composer, 1871; Joris-Karl (Charles-Marie-Georges) Huysmans, writer, 1907; Amy Lowell, poet...
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Aging wisdom for the ages: if life begins at 40, what happens after 60? A new book gives answers from people who have been there, done that.
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post
; ...just a little too old for model railways." While no one can really have the last word on aging, composer Daniel Francois Esprit Auber may have come close when he said, "Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." As we...
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The skeleton score of Verdi's Una vendetta in domino: two surviving fragments.(Giuseppe Verdi)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Gustavo III, an opera about the assassination of the Swedish monarch, derived from an 1833 libretto for Daniel Francois-Esprit Auber by Eugene Scribe. He notated a complete continuity draft of act 1. (6) When the Neapolitan censors asked...
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Cajkovskij-Studien 1: Internationales Cajkovskij-Symposium Tubingen 1993.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...French Operacomique ballade in Pique Dame, in which she reaches the intriguing conclusion that, while for Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber and Giacomo Meyerbeer this genre functions to present a mystery that is eventually explicated, for Tchaikovsky...
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