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The Coliseum The Coliseum
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New Frontier New Frontier
NEW FRONTIER NEW FRONTIER. The term "New Frontier" refers to the economic and social programs of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The concept of a "New Frontier" epitomized Kennedy's commitment to renewal and change. He pitched his 1960 presidential campaign as a crusade to bring in a "new... Read more
Shirley Ann Grau Shirley Ann Grau
Grau, Shirley Ann (1929–), New Orleans novelist whose works include The Hard Blue Sky (1958), presenting the life of an isolated Louisiana island community; The House on Coliseum Street (1961), set in her native city and treating the sad, loveless experience of a young girl there; The Keepers... Read more
Colosseum Colosseum
Colosseum or Coliseum , Ital. Colosseo, common name of the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome, near the southeast end of the Forum, between the Palatine and Esquiline hills. Begun by Vespasian, c.AD 75, and completed by his son Titus in AD 80, it is the most imposing of Roman antiquities. The vast... Read more
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M. C. Hammer 1963– Rap artist Enlisted in Navy Annual Payroll of $6.8 Million World Tour Canceled Selected discography Sources M.C. Hammer was one of rap music’s biggest stars in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He did much to bring the music to a general American audience, and roosted... Read more
Andreas Gryphius Andreas Gryphius
Gryphius, Andreas (1616–64), German baroque dramatist, author of a number of tragedies written in lofty poetic prose with scenes of horror and bloodshed. His heroes included Charles I of England, who had just been beheaded (1649), viewed with strong royalist sympathies. Gryphius was... Read more
George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel , 1685-1759, English composer, b. Halle, Germany. Handel was one of the greatest masters of baroque music, most widely celebrated for his majestic oratorio Messiah. Of German descent, he was originally named Georg Friedrich Handel. Son of a barber-surgeon, he early... Read more
Bononcini Bononcini
Bononcini or Buononcini , musical family of Modena, Italy. Giovanni Maria Bononcini, 1642-78, choirmaster and organist at Bologna and Modena, was a composer and the author of Musico prattico (1673). His son Giovanni Bononcini, 1670-1747, was a composer, chiefly of operas. In London he was... Read more
oratorio oratorio
oratorio , musical composition employing chorus, orchestra, and soloists and usually, but not necessarily, a setting of a sacred libretto without stage action or scenery. The immediate forerunner of oratorio, Emilio del Cavaliere's sacred opera La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo applied the... Read more
Royal Opera House (Covent Garden London England) Royal Opera House (Covent Garden London England)
Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London). The original Covent Garden theatre was opened by John Rich in 1732; Handel used it for operas and oratorios, including the first London performance of Messiah, while the second half of the century saw both plays and English operas. In 1808 the theatre was... Read more

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