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Federico Garcia Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico García Lorca The poetry of the Spanish author Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) is marked by brilliance, originality, and dramatic flair. His plays are among the best examples of 20th-century poetic drama. In the 20th century Federico García Lorca, Miguel de... Read more
Lorca Lorca
Lorca , city (1990 pop. 67,338), Murcia prov., SE Spain, in Murcia, on the Guadalentín River. It is a market center for a fertile, irrigated basin producing cereals, fruits, and vegetables. Hemp sandals and woolen products are made in Lorca. Nearby are gypsum quarries and sulfur and iron... Read more
George Henry Crumb George Henry Crumb
George Henry Crumb 1929-, American composer, b. Charleston, W.Va., grad. Mason College of Music, Charleston (B.A. 1950); Univ. of Illinois (M.A. 1953); Univ. of Michigan (D.M.A. 1959). In his compositions, Crumb often uses mysterious vocalizations (whispers, shrieks, hisses, clicks, etc.),... Read more
Roger Eugene Maris Roger Eugene Maris
Roger Eugene Maris , 1934-85, American baseball player, b. Hibbing, Minn. He played (1957-59) for Cleveland and the Kansas City Athletics before joining (1960) the New York Yankees. In 1961, Maris hit 61 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth 's record of 60 in one season. Ford C. Frick, commissioner of... Read more
Salvador Dali Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí , 1904-89, Spanish painter. At first influenced by futurism , in 1924 Dalí came under the influence of the Italian painter de Chirico and by 1929 he had become a leader of surrealism . His precisely realistic style enhances the obsessively nightmarish effect of many... Read more
lyric lyric
lyric in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song, or elegy. In... Read more
Richard Rogers Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers The British architect Richard Rogers (born 1933) was an avowed modernist who represented high tech architecture with his concern for advanced technology. He was best known for his joint design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Renzo Piano and for the Lloyd's of London Building... Read more
Renzo Piano Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano , 1937-, Italian architect, b. Genoa. Piano attended architecture school at Milan Polytechnic, graduating in 1964. He worked with architects Louis I. Kahn and Z. S. Makowsky from 1965 to 1970. Piano came to worldwide attention when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Centre... Read more
Karol Szymanowski Karol Szymanowski
Karol Szymanowski , 1882-1937, Polish composer; studied in Berlin and Warsaw. His early works show marked German, French, and Russian influences, but in his later compositions he developed a distinctive, national style. Yet his music was not readily accepted in Poland. He was a founder of Young... Read more
Beaubourg Beaubourg
Beaubourg , popular name for the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture , museum in Paris, France; the popular name is derived from the district in which it is located. Proposed by French president Georges Pompidou in 1969, the center was designed by architects Renzo Piano of... Read more

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