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A Designer Reveals the Higher Purpose of Architecture Architecture should lift you up to the heavens NEW HOPE, N.Y. —“If you sing the perfect note right in the center stage, the person at the back of the amphitheater can hear it just as well as a person in the front,” says James H. Smith, educator and founder of Cartio, an architectural photography and design atelier. The ancient Greek amphitheaters “aren’t something that just happened by mistake. This was highly advanced design.” S...

Dover String Quartet — Beethoven Complete String Quartets: Volume 1/The Opus 18 Quartets (Cedille) Milena Pajaro Van de Stadt is the violist in the Dover Quartet. The quartet has featured the same four members since they began 12 years ago, which in addition to her includes first violinist Joel Link, violinist Bryan Lee and cellist Camden Shaw. As part of Beethovens 250th birth anniversary, theyre recording his complete string quartets. The first volume features Beethovens early Opus 18 quar...