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Berklee Music College Of Boston
Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including rock, hip hop, reggae, salsa, heavy metal and bluegrass. Berklee alumni have won 310 Grammy Awards, more than any other college, and 108 Latin Grammy Awards. Other notable accolades for its alumni include 34 Emmy Awards, 7 Tony Awards, 8 Academy Awards, and 3 Saturn Awards. Since 2012, Berklee College of Music has also operated a campus in Valencia, Spain. In December 2015, Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory agreed to a merger. The combined institution is known as Berklee, with the conservatory becoming The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. History Schillinger House (1945–1954) In 1945, pianist, composer, arranger and MIT graduate Lawrence Berk found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esse Quam Videri
''Esse quam videri'' is a Latin language, Latin phrase meaning "To be, rather than to seem." It and variants have been used as a motto by a number of different groups. The form ''Esse, non Videri'' ("to act, not to seem to be") is the Wallenberg family motto. History ''Esse quam videri'' is found in Cicero's essay ''On Friendship'' (''Laelius de Amicitia'', chapter 98). ''Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt'' ("Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so"). Just a few years after Cicero, Sallust used the phrase in his ''Bellum Catilinae'' (54.6), writing that Cato the Younger ''esse quam videri bonus malebat'' ("He preferred to be good rather than to seem so"). Previous to both Romans, Aeschylus used a similar phrase in ''Seven Against Thebes'' aline 592 at which the scout (''angelos'') says of the seer/priest Amphiaraus: (''ou gàr dokeîn arete (moral virtue), áristos, all' eînai thélei'': "he doesn't want to ''se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
