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Claudio Abbado: Lux Aeterna
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Claudio Abbado: Lux Aeterna
Verdi Requiem in rehearsal. Caballe, Gasdia, Valentini- Terrani; Dvorsky, Merritt, Ramey; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scales, 1985. Subtitled (English, French, Castillian). Notes; no text or translation. Arthaus Musik DVD 101 125 (Naxos, dist.), 119 mins.
The back cover of this DVD of the Verdi Requiem lists two sopranos (Montserrat Caballe and Cecilia "Caschia') and two tenors (Peter Dvorsky and Chris Merritt). Eager to find out who was singing what (and who Cecilia Caschia might be), I tore open the package, put the DVD in the player, jumped to the "Libera me" ...
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...innovator, such an erudite and experienced historian as Grant might have been expected to give a fresher view of this important period. Though it always gives good value, The Antonines lacks the punch of some of Grant's earlier work.
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Historical footnote: letter to 'Wild Bill.'
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...their personal conduct, the general system of Augustus was equally adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and by the two Antonines. They persisted in the design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, without attempting to enlarge its limits. By every...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...peace of our times. Emperor Decius, 250 years after Caesar Augustus, pondered ``the general causes that since the time of Antonines (Augustus) had so impetuously urged the decline of the Roman greatness. He soon discovered that it was impossible to replace...
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...eighteenth century had reached a point of stability and definition comparable to that of the Roman Empire in the Age of the Antonines: 'The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful...
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The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997 BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...with the idea of subject races." For Indians, in hindsight, he believed, British rule "might well be the age of the Antonines." ** Full version of these reviews, and more book news, are available on the Web. * [Accompanied by image of the book...
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That colossal wreck
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Ghaznavids, the Timurids and the Moghuls made their Christian contemporaries feel like barbarians contemplating Rome under the Antonines. There is no excuse for people like bin Laden, Mullah Omar or Gulbuddin Hekhmatyar to pervert a culture that has produced...
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Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
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Disturbers of the peace
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...to blows. If anything, today's equivalent of the great powers were keen to stay out. We lived in Gibbon's age of the Antonines. The reason is obvious and therefore to some people unpalatable: the supremacy of the United States. True, China is supposed...
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