They were careful not to change the words, which appear as subtitles in classical Hebrew script.
For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
In 2007, she became the first classical musician to be named to the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
“If I had my life to do over again,” he says, he would be a classical musician.
In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.
Let us enquire by what singular series of accidents, such a man crawled to the summit of classical reputation?
He overthrew the classical ideal of art, and enthroned the ego in its room.
The author shows that he knew as minutely as extensively the whole round of classical literature accessible to his times.
So much for what may be called the classical and reference department of the library.
He soon became the most popular leading man in Paris, not only in the classical rpertoire, but in contemporary novelties.
1590s, "of the highest rank" (originally in literature), from classic + -al (1). Classical music (1836) was defined originally against romantic music.
[I]n general, as now used, the term classical includes the composers active in instrumental music from somewhere about 1700 to say 1830. Hence the list includes among the great names those of Bach, his sons, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek, Pleyel, Cramer, etc. The next step beyond the term classical is "modern romantic," the composers of which school may be taken to include all the writers for pianoforte from about 1829 (when Mendelssohn published the first "Songs without Words") down to the present. The term romantic in this sense means strongly marked, extraordinary, intending to tell stories and the like. ["Music, Its Ideals and Methods," W.S.B. Mathews, 1897]But already by 1880s it was acknowledged the term had a double sense: Music that had withstood the test of time, as well as music of a style contrasted to "romantic." Later (early 20c.) it was contrasted to jazz (in this sense more often with reference to the orchestras than to the music itself). Still later in contrast to popular music generally (mid-20c.).
