our embassies in Europe joined hands in "Viva Virtuosi," a 6-week 8-country joint venture engaging Brussels, the Vatican, Bergamo, Milan, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt am Main, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Fatima, Alentejo, and Berlin.
"Viva Virtuosi", a youth string group (30 youngsters, ages 11 to 23), showed the world that, in the field of music, Filipinos can be second to none.
Nuovo describes Christian virtuosity as arising in response to a seventeenth-century "crisis of atheism," a crisis created by the newfound prominence of "Democritean naturalism and its Epicurean successor." He places Locke in a tradition of Christian virtuosi whose "prototype" was Francis Bacon and whose "archetype" was Locke's friend and mentor, Robert Boyle.
Nuovo traces the impetus for Locke's magnum opus, the Essay concerning Human Understanding, to a meeting of virtuosi on a winter night in 1671.
Image Credit: Soloists from Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.
German Soprano Felicitas Fuchs and soloists from the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra are some of the performers at an anniversary gala to celebrate two landmarks: 20 years of the Dubai Concert Committee (DCC) and 15 years of Morozov's Quartet.
These English
virtuosi created their own scholarly archives on a variety of pertinent topics, upon which they--and often others--could draw, leaving a lasting influence on scientific inquiry via their notes and notebooks.
Keenly aware of "the fundamental incoherence of Western culture" (4) and the arbitrary nature of all institutional structures of the past and present, the Romantic
virtuosi positioned themselves at the threshold of the new, the radically emergent.
Eamon describes how princely courts and the "academies" founded by various Italian professors of secrets, then the circles of English
virtuosi, valued a curiosity distinct from both scholastic-style pedantry and the curiosity of the "vulgar sort." In tracing the demise of a role for secrecy as an epistemological component of science, Eamon is careful to distinguish a sociological level of secrecy in science, which continued to exist (and indeed persists to the present day).
Filipino youth string orchestra Pundaquit
Virtuosi, led by its artistic director Alfonso "Coke" Bolipata and conductor Maestro Ruggiero Barbieri, rounded off its first-ever European concert tour with back-to-back concerts in Berlin.
At this moment in the history of
virtuosi, one may distinguish the 'medical virtuosity' of John Evelyn, whose 'inability to conceptualize his medical pursuits' Hanson sees as characteristic of the history of seventeenth-century virtuosic culture at large (p.
Although he was a virtuoso dancer and the Danes have produced many great
virtuosi, virtuosity for its own sake was never Bournonville's point.
The eleven sets of Duos for two clarinets by Lefevre (according to Fetis) were composed in the early decades of the nineteenth century during which the popularity of the wind instrument
virtuosi in Europe reached its height.
