Program: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Adagio for Strings / Samuel Barber -- Suite from "The Miraculous Mandarin" / Bela Bartok

Program: Le Corsaire Overture / Hector Berlioz -- Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 / Anton Webern -- Scheherazade, Op. 35 / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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This paper examines the translation movement of Hindu epics from Sanskrit to Persian spearheaded by the sixteenth century Mughal emperor Akbar. Many historians understand this phenomenon as a cultural accommodation by the emperor to attain legitimacy amongst a heterogeneous populace. This paper, in contrast, seeks to locate this effort within a broader ...

This paper analyzes Mary Wollstonecraft’s life and fourteen major literary works. It argues that her legacy should be considered in the context of romanticism. Romanticism is usually defined in a traditional, masculine sense: as an emotional escape from repression and rationalism. Eighteenth-century societal norms, however, categorized women as purely ...

When the Mughals founded an empire in Hindustan, they sought to legitimize their budding dynasty through diverse sources of power. In the texts and art produced by emperors and their courts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these performances of power constantly featured birds. Birds, enfleshed and imagined, were used as motifs that ...

Program: The Poet's Vision / Michael Mathis -- Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a / Samuel Barber -- Concerto for Orchestra / Bela Bartok

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