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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.” Smith now designs homes in New York, but he grew up in Australia. His father was a pilot, so they vis...

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 Beethoven's 250th birth anniversary, they're recording his complete string quartets. The first volume features Beethoven's early Opus 18 quartets. When Beethoven's early quartets first made their appearance, they were considered to be ch...