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Midas asked that whatever he might touch would turn to gold. Dionysus consented, though was sorry that he had not made a better choice. Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched and turned to gold an oak twig and a stone, but his joy vanished when he found that his bread, meat, and wine also turned to gold.
Scott Houston, also known as the Piano Guy, is an American pianist, author, teacher, and television personality who hosted and co-produced the public television series The Piano Guy. Houston is also the performer on a public television pledge special titled Play Piano in a Flash , and developed the "Piano in a Flash Online Method", aimed at ...
In June 1997 Nakamatsu won the Gold Medal at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. [2] He was the first American to win this prize since 1981. Immediately following the competition, he quit his job as a high school German teacher to pursue a career as a classical pianist.
Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above. The dithyramb (/ ˈ d ɪ θ ɪ r æ m /; [1] Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god. [2]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. government agencies held a classified briefing for all senators on Wednesday on China's alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to burrow deep into American ...
Over the course of his career, Gold's work was both eclectic and independent. He composed most often for orchestra , piano , chamber ensemble or various vocalists with or without accompaniment . He was a member of the tonality-based Delian Society [ 4 ] but also composed at times in a structurally based atonal style [ citation needed ] .
Bill O'Brien, Boston College head coach. Add one more former Belichick assistant to the pile. Tom Brady never threw for more yards with the Patriots than when O'Brien was offensive coordinator in ...
The Cleveland International Piano Competition is an American piano competition that takes place biennially in Cleveland, Ohio. The initial Competition in 1975 and the nine others that followed were sponsored jointly by the Robert Casadesus Society and the Cleveland Institute of Music to honor the memory of French pianist Robert Casadesus .