The school is also home to the annual London Classical Reading Competition, participated in by schools nationwide.
In addition to the news, there was classical music and readings of classical Russian literature, along with "radio meetings" of village workers and soldiers' mothers.
A circle gathered around him for regular readings in classical and Christian prose literature, including medical and scientific works.
Compared with the bracing readings of classical repertoire by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, for example, Brüggen's were less extreme and could never be accused of attention-seeking.
With fierce line readings and classical posture, Ty Jones, who wrote the play and stars as Turner, portrays him as coolly composed, with a quick, sarcastic humor.
Those qualities also characterised also his readings of classical and romantic repertoire which he began to undertake with leading modern-instrument orchestras in the ensuing decades.
Everything that Cusk can't say about their lives together seems to create a vacuum that she fills with a series of similes (a dissolved marriage is like a broken plate, or a jigsaw puzzle) and readings of classical literature (marriage is like Clytemnestra and Agamemnon's marriage).
"Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America," he said.
And he would have been moved by Daniel Mendelsohn's The Elusive Embrace, an essay weaving together family and personal history, readings of classical texts, and a meditation on gay culture and Jewish heritage.
He is a formidable musician who exerts a subtle intellectual pressure on seemingly straight-ahead readings of the classical and Romantic repertory.
