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Classical music festivals in the Americas
Classical music festivals in the Americas are recurring multi-day gatherings of orchestral, chamber, and operatic music, a summer model that grew from Tanglewood after 1934 and includes training academies like Aspen.
Classical order
Classical order: the five systems of proportion and ornament, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite, governing column and entablature in Greek and Roman architecture, codified by Vitruvius and Renaissance theorists.
Classical Ottoman architecture
Classical Ottoman architecture is the imperial building style of the Ottoman Empire from about 1501 to 1703, centered on domed mosques, especially those of Mimar Sinan.
Classical period (music)
The Classical period (c. 1750–1820) of Western art music, between Baroque and Romantic eras; homophonic texture, sonata form, symphony and string quartet; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert.
Classical Philology
Classical Philology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press since 1906, covering the languages, literature, and history of ancient Greece and Rome.
Classical Quarterly
The Classical Quarterly is a British peer-reviewed classical studies journal published by Cambridge University Press since 1907, covering ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, and philosophy.
Classical unities
Classical unities, also called Aristotelian or three unities: unity of action, time, and place. A prescriptive drama rule formulated by 16th-century Italian critics, not Aristotle himself, enforced in French neoclassicism, and abandoned by Romantic and modern theater.
Classicism
Classicism: an aesthetic style and attitude in art, literature, architecture, and music modeled on ancient Greece and Rome, marked by form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion; opposed to Romanticism, with French classicism under Louis XIV and later neoclassical revivals.
Classics
Classics, also called classical studies, is the study of classical antiquity, traditionally the Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and art read in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Classics IV
Classics IV, also billed Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost, an American soft rock band formed 1965 in Jacksonville, Florida, known for "Spooky" (#3, 1968), "Stormy" and "Traces" (#2, 1969); Cobb, Daughtry and Buie later formed the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
Classification of operas by subject, setting and language
Classification of operas by subject, setting, and language groups operas by story source, setting, and sung language rather than formal genre, with censorship often forcing settings to shift.
Classification of Saint-Émilion wine
The Saint-Émilion classification (classement des crus de Saint-Émilion) is Bordeaux's only regularly revised wine ranking, created by the INAO in 1955 and re-evaluated about every decade; the 2022 edition lists 85 estates, with Figeac and Pavie as the two Premiers Grands Crus Classés A.
Classified (2024 film)
Classified (2024) is an action thriller directed by Roel Reiné, starring Aaron Eckhart as CIA hitman Evan Shaw, with Tim Roth and Abigail Breslin; released October 22, 2024 by Saban Films, 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Classmates (ക്ലാസ്മേറ്റ്സ്) (2006 film)
Classmates (ക്ലാസ്മേറ്റ്സ്) is Lal Jose's 2006 Malayalam campus drama written by James Albert, starring Prithviraj and Kavya Madhavan; a 2006 reunion unravels a classmate's death, and the film became 2006's biggest Malayalam hit at about Rs 24 crore.
Classmates Minus
Classmates Minus (同學麥娜絲) is a 2020 Taiwanese dark comedy by Huang Hsin-yao, adapted from his documentary Hu Lian San Xiao, about four middle-aged high school friends; it won three Golden Horse Awards and streamed on Netflix from February 2021.
Classroom of the Elite (ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ)
Classroom of the Elite (Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e) is a Japanese light novel series by Syougo Kinugasa about students at a meritocratic Tokyo high school.
Classroom of the Elite (ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ) (TV series)
Classroom of the Elite is a Japanese anime series adapted from Shogo Kinugasa's light novel, first broadcast in 2017 and renewed for a fifth season in 2026.
Claude (singer)
Claude (Claude Kiambe, born 2003) is a Dutch-Congolese singer-songwriter whose 2022 hit "Ladada (Mon Dernier Mot)" topped the Dutch charts; he represented the Netherlands at Eurovision 2025 with "C'est la vie", finishing 12th.
Claude Akins
Claude Akins (1926-1994), American character actor of Westerns and war films; Joe Burdette in Rio Bravo, Sheriff Lobo in B.J. and the Bear; nearly 100 films, 180+ TV episodes.
Claude Barzotti
Claude Barzotti, born Francesco Barzotti (1953–2023), was a Belgian singer of Italian origin whose ballad 'Le Rital' topped the French chart for seven weeks in 1983.
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob, 1894–1954), French surrealist photographer and writer known for gender-questioning staged self-portraits and, with partner Marcel Moore, an anti-Nazi resistance campaign on occupied Jersey that ended in a death sentence.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy (Achille-Claude Debussy, 1862-1918), French composer and pianist born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; creator of Pelléas et Mélisande, La mer, and the Préludes, known for non-functional harmony, parallel chords, and free form.
Claude François
Claude François (Cloclo), French yé-yé and disco singer born 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt, died 1978 in Paris. Creator of the Clodettes and the Flèche label; "Comme d'habitude" became "My Way" for Sinatra.
Claude Frollo
Claude Frollo (Dom Claude Frollo) is the archdeacon of Notre-Dame and adoptive father of Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, a scholar whose passion for Esmeralda leads to her death; film versions turned him into a judge.
Claude Jarman Jr.
Claude Jarman Jr. (1934-2025), American actor, won the Academy Juvenile Award for playing Jody Baxter in The Yearling (1946), later starred in Intruder in the Dust and Rio Grande, then led the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born 30 October 1937, Paris) is a French director, screenwriter and producer, founder of Les Films 13, whose Un homme et une femme (1966) won the Palme d'Or and two Oscars; known for interlocking narratives and music-driven editing.
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellée, was a French painter, draftsman, and etcher who spent nearly his whole career in Rome and became one of the great masters of landscape painting.
Claude McKay
Claude McKay (Festus Claudius McKay, 1889–1948), Jamaican-born poet and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance; author of "If We Must Die," Harlem Shadows, and Home to Harlem; later Catholic convert who died in Chicago.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840–1926), French Impressionist painter and founder of the movement named after his 1872 Impression, soleil levant; settled at Giverny in 1883 and painted more than 250 Water Lilies works.
Claude Picasso
Claude Picasso (Claude Ruiz-Picasso, 1947–2023), French photographer and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot; won legitimacy suit, administered the Succession Picasso from 1989, founded Picasso Administration in 1995, and documented MoMA's SPACES exhibition.