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Letter from Boston.(Boston Early Music Festival.)
What did we tell you about vocalizing in the dressing room? It's too crowded in here, so cut it out!" Four sopranos glare at a fifth, who retreats to the hallway. Trying to find a place to warm up is virtually impossible at Boston's Copley Theater; every backstage nook is already crammed with singers, dancers, instrument cases, costume racks, props, makeup people, dressers and production assistants for performances of Lully's Thesee, at the 2001 Boston Early Music Festival.
When festival director Kathleen Fay learned that their usual home, the Emerson Majestic Theatre, was closing to undergo renovations, she turned to the Copley, the only other affordable (that ...
- Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Cohen, Paul Joseph August 1, 2004 700+ words
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of...centuries, a process that culminated in Louis XIV's absolutist monarchy. Over the past...appellate courts, the parlements, during Louis XIV's personal rule and the regency which...
- Hurt, John J. Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal...
- Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books Heimmermann, Daniel September 22, 2002 700+ words
...national and regional elites. Kings such as Louis XIV shared authority with those privileged...describing the political culture of the age of Louis XIV, at least with respect to one of the...parlements and their magistrates under Louis XIV. He focuses on two topics--the successful...
- The Fabrication of Louis XIV.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Beasley, Faith E. December 1, 1993 700+ words
...century's leading actor and producer, Louis XIV, have often been the focus of attention...Peter Burke's The Fabrication of Louis XIV is an addition to this scholarly corpus...images in history. The Fabrication of Louis XIV continues the type of investigation into...
- Louis XIV.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: History Review Wilkinson, Richard September 1, 2002 700+ words
...27958-5 Do we need another biography of Louis XIV? Is there not a contrast with Geoffrey...History Review, March 1998). In tackling Louis XIV, on the other hand, Treasure enters...as Dunlop. Other titles incorporating Louis XIV's name are not biographies. So, yes...
- Love and Louis XIV.(Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun...
- Magazine article from: Bookmarks January 1, 2007 700+ words
EXCELLENT Love and Louis XIV The Women in the Life of the Sun King...varied tastes in mistresses and wives. Louis XIV (1638-1715), the charismatic...than 60 years.... While Love and Louis XIV doesn't quite measure up to the...
- Louis XIV's crown slips at end.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Laban, Linda September 2, 2005 700+ words
Byline: LINDA LABAN Louis XIV, with Ike Reilly Assassination and...Following Franz Ferdinand's lead, Louis XIV takes its name from the French monarch...faced farm girl by comparison, Louis XIV has more in common with the Doors...
- Louis XIV exhibition looks at the arts behind the grandeur.
- Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt) October 21, 2009 700+ words
...Versailles a European center of power, but Louis XIV owes his royal grandeur to artists perhaps...first large-scale exhibition devoted to Louis XIV at the palace of Versailles opened on...powerful image. Two years in the making, "Louis XIV, the Man and the King" brings together...
- The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Riley, Philip F. December 22, 2005 700+ words
...Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV. By Anne Somerset. (New York: St...Archives de la Bastille, insisted that Louis XIV was the first French king expressly concerned...Ravaisson attributes this interest to Louis XIV's voracious curiosity as evinced in...
