1.   His ragtime diversion certainly provided that zip, along with the complexity akin to the European classics he was studying.

2.   On one side, you find right-wing reactionary fossils fighting to maintain the canon of mainly European classics.

3.   The two say this and the Monteverdi opera are probably their last collaborations with Kentridge for now, and their last works so rooted in European classics.

4.   There, he learned the European classics, while he steeped himself in the drum-driven popular music that was all around him in his neighborhood.

5.   Still, he says, the basis of the Guthrie will always be the European classics.

6.   Special programs dedicated to Saddam dominated the television, with a musical backdrop swaying from Iraqi pop to European classics to traditional Arab songs.