We're in the baroque oyster bar, one of the loveliest rooms in Britain, complete with ghost.
Much of the art during the baroque and rococo periods had its origins in East Asia.
The baroque-meets-modern interior, designed by Philippe Starck, includes original art from the likes of Roy Lichtenstein and Allen Jones.
This CD includes first time recordings of some glorious arias, like this one from the baroque composer Antonio Caldara.
Trumpet players during the Baroque period (ca. 1600-1750) also developed a type of extremely high, melodic solo playing called clarino style.
In the afternoon, visitors stroll along the boutique-lined alleyways, admiring the Baroque heritage (check out the 17th-century Palais Lascaris) and lapping up ice creams.
But that bare summary does not do justice to the baroque mixture of intrigue, incompetence and official secrecy that followed Ms Politkovskaya's murder.
The baroque drop-shaped natural pearl weighing 239.7 grains (59.92 carats) is set with a diamond foliate surmount and comes with a 42-cm. long diamond chain.
And if Verdi had lived, say, in the Baroque era, when operas nearly always had happy endings, Violetta might have done just as well for herself.
In them, he pleaded for the contemporary vitality of painting that was spatially expansive and dramatic, like the art of the Baroque, particularly his beloved Caravaggio.
As a jazz pianist, Mr. Tepfer says, the challenge in recording the Goldbergs was to remain true to himself in both the baroque and the contemporary idiom.
This is much more suitable repertoire for her than Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus, " the baroque piece in which she made her debut with the New York City Opera last season.
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By using my the higher register of the baroque G alto recorder, without changing the original key of the music, the resulting tone color is more flexible as well as louder.
The show contains only 16 works, yet each one stands out from the wall and absorbs the viewer, providing new insight into both the life and art of the baroque master.
His swirl is one of the hallmarks of Mannerism a mode of expression whose exaggerations broke the classical perfection and balance of the High Renaissance, and started art on the road to the Baroque.
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He referenced botanical motifs and brocade patterns from civilizations as far back as ancient Greece, and moved up through the Baroque, the Enlightenment and Art Nouveau, taking side trips to Persia, Turkey and China.
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Of course, finding the rhythm in Vienna can also mean a quiet stroll through the Baroque streets at night, a meander along the banks of the Danube or just stirring a cup of coffee in a cafe.
They play tricks and dance to the accompaniment of the Baroque-era music of the Jesuit missions, then around midnight fireworks pop from the top of their wide-brimmed hats, symbolizing the gift of light and vision to live respectfully.
Participants listened to four symphonies by composer William Boyce of the late Baroque period, which the researchers chose because they reflect Western music but were likely to be unfamiliar to subjects.
Similar to the confusion and indecision caused by the most baroque Chinese takeout menu, the constant emergence of new marketing technologies is a source of perplexity for brand marketers.
More than any of the other baroque composers, Bach can cause your toes to tap and your eyes to weep all in the same 10 minutes.
Ordinary brick and stucco-fronted residences surround the square's perimeter, complementing the magnificent baroque fountains and buildings.
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Spend a day exploring the gleaming Baroque churches made from white volcanic rock.
Mary Woolnoth, one of six London churches designed between 1712 and 1733 by the English Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736), is his most compact masterwork.
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And that account leaves out a few of the more baroque subplots to this drama (feel free to note any you find particularly relevant, below).
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The intervening century witnessed the spectacular flowering of the Italian Baroque.
There are also quotes from a madrigal by the Italian baroque composer, Claudio Monteverdi, which sound just out of reach just beneath an only partially penetrable, dark surface.
The Grade I-listed hall, near the coastal town of Seaton Sluice, was built by Sir John Vanbrugh, and is widely regarded as one of the finest works of the English Baroque period.
Beginning on Christmas Day, 1999, and ending on the last day of 2000, he travelled with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists to more than fifty churches in Europe and America, including hallowed places where Bach worked.
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