 | Escuela de Barbizon -Francia- Antecedentes del Impresionismo El apelativo "Escuela de Barbizon" fue otorgado a los pintores de este grupo encabezados por Théodore Rousseau, los cuales se reunían en una aldea cercana a París, Barbizon, en los lindes del bosque de Fontainebleau. En torno a este enclave rural de gran belleza natural, estos artistas se interesaron fundamentalmente por representar la realidad sin procurar embellecerla ni modificarla. Los integrantes fundadores de la escuela de Barbizon fueron Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet y Charles-François Daubigny. Otros miembros fueron Jules Dupré, Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, Henri Harpignies, Félix Ziem, Alexandre DeFaux, Constant Troyon y Jules Jacques Veyrassat. Los barbizonniers, buscaban conscientemente alejarse de la creciente confusión y alboroto de las ciudades, huyendo de las falsas promesas del progreso tecnológico y del encorsetamiento a que sometía la Academia de Bellas Artes a los artistas. Estos excluían de sus obras la idealización y cualquier otro elemento de abstracción intelectual o mística. Compartían con Corot su interés por observar cuidadosa y directamente la Naturaleza, lo que les llevó a considerar con el máximo interés la importancia de la luz, y a reconocer el papel que juega la atmósfera que rodea a los objetos en la plasmación de los colores. Los temas, en consecuencia, se alejan de los asuntos mitológicos, históricos o religiosos, que eran los más valorados por la crítica de principios del s.XIX, concentrándose en un género considerado menor: el paisaje. En su afán de copiar fielmente la naturaleza, por humilde y banal que resultase, y sin idealización alguna, los artistas de Barbizon salían del taller y ejecutaban la mayor parte de la obra al aire libre, au plein air, sin apenas retoques posteriores en el estudio. Este método, que potencia la captación de lo fugaz e inmediato, fue adoptado y difundido más tarde, por los impresionistas. |
 | Charlie Rose: January 9, 1996 First, a discussion with Sidney Jones, executive director of Human Rights Watch/Asia, and David Lampton, president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, about reports of child deaths in China's state-run orphanages and what effect this could have on China-U.S. relations. Then, a conversation with the managing editor of "Time" magazine, Walter Isaacson, about the future of this publication in an increasingly electronic era. Finally, a remembrance of former French president Francois Mitterand, who worked with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to cultivate his vision of a united Europe, with investment banker and managing director of Lazard Freres, Felix Rohatyn. |
 | Ondine, Gaspard de la Nuit, Maurice Ravel, by Félix Ardanaz Ondine, an oneiric tale of a water fairy singing to seduce the observer and accompany her to visit her kingdom deep at the bottom of the lake in the triangle of water, fire and earth. This piece contains technical problems for the right hand, like wild cadenza figures, chordal motifs, and chromatic notes and thirds. C.V (english) The 19 years old Spanish musician Félix González-Ardanaz, began his musical upbringing in La Rioja at the "Professional School of Music", finalizing bachelor at sciences and the Professional Degree of Music at the age of 17, and with the best qualifications, under the trusteeship of Begoña Axpe Basarrete and Elvira Guarás. From an early age, he has performed in its community many times, as chamber music performer and as soloist. He has taken part in several courses in the field of piano and conducting, as active student and as soloist. That was in the context of the Fifth International Summer Course "New Musical Generation" in Segovia; of the "Third International Forum of Music City of Toledo", and of the "50th International Summer Academy of Nice". He has also participated actively in the courses which usually take place in the Musikeon Academy, in Valencia, in charge of the Italian musician Luca Chiantore, and in those of the Eutherpe Foundation in Leon. He has received classes by spanish pianists of the stature of Guillermo González, Josep Colom... and Solomon Mikowsky, Brigitte Engerer, Jean-François Heisser and Michel Béroff in the international field. Since last year, he has had the privilege to receive the extraordinary supervision of Doña Alicia de Larrocha, great lady of the Spanish piano. His trajectory has provided him several awards in international contests like "City of San Sebastián" (third prize in the categories of chamber music and the piano highest level , respectively) and "Ciutat de Carlet" (mention in the youthful modality). He has been supported by some state foundations devoted to talent developing and the help to high capacities, as the "Promete Foundation", and he has been granted the prize "Youngs of the Future" to the values of the youth, promoted by the Rotary Club the International. Three months ago, he took part in the Concert-Recording of the unknown masterpiece "Rhapsodie Basque pour orchestre et piano", by the French composer Charles Bordes, with the collaboration of the Spanish conductor Jose Luis Estellés. Recently, he has been selected one finalist of the European grant promoted by the foundation Yamaha Europe, that will take place soon, and which is destined to grant only one Spanish pianist. As soloist, he has worked masterpieces of Chopin, Liszt, Albéniz, Debussy, Beethoven and Ravel, among others. At the present time, it attends with excellent qualifications second course of the modalities of Piano and Conducting in the Basque Country School of Music (Musikene), under the trusteeship of Gustavo Diaz-Jerez and Enrique García Asensio, permanent conductor of the "Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra" during more than 20 years in the past. He feels special predilection for the Spanish nationalism, the romanticism and french impressionism. Masterpice explanation: Gaspard de la Nuit: Trois Poèmes pour Piano d'apres Aloysius Bertrand is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. It has three movements, each based on a poem by Aloysius Bertrand: 1.- Ondine 2.- Le gibet 3.- Scarbo Famous recordings: Claudio Arrau (1963), Samson François (1967), Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli, Vlado Perlemuter (1973),Martha Argerich (1975), Ivo Pogorelich et Anne Queffelec. Other works for solo piano:Jeux D'eau, Menuet Antique, Menuet Sur Le Nom De Haydn, Miroirs, Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte, Sonatine, le Tombeau de Couperin, ma mère l'Oye (transcription),Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, et La Valse. |
 | Mazeppa, Trascendental Study, Franz Liszt, by Félix Ardanaz. (Études d'éxecution trascendante) Considered musically one of the most difficult of the 12 etudes, Mazeppa imposes some extremely demanding technical difficulties as well. It requires a complete familiarity with the piano, as it contains a lot of very fast and wide jumps and octaves, and is usually only attempted by advanced players. C.V (english) The 19 years old Spanish musician Félix González-Ardanaz, began his musical upbringing in La Rioja at the "Professional School of Music", finalizing bachelor at sciences and the Professional Degree of Music at the age of 17, and with the best qualifications, under the trusteeship of Begoña Axpe Basarrete and Elvira Guarás. From an early age, he has performed in its community many times, as chamber music performer and as soloist. He has taken part in several courses in the field of piano and conducting, as active student and as soloist. That was in the context of the Fifth International Summer Course "New Musical Generation" in Segovia; of the "Third International Forum of Music City of Toledo", and of the "50th International Summer Academy of Nice". He has also participated actively in the courses which usually take place in the Musikeon Academy, in Valencia, in charge of the Italian musician Luca Chiantore, and in those of the Eutherpe Foundation in Leon. He has received classes by spanish pianists of the stature of Guillermo González, Josep Colom... and Solomon Mikowsky, Brigitte Engerer, Jean-François Heisser and Michel Béroff in the international field. Since last year, he has had the privilege to receive the extraordinary supervision of Doña Alicia de Larrocha, great lady of the Spanish piano. His trajectory has provided him several awards in international contests like "City of San Sebastián" (third prize in the categories of chamber music and the piano highest level , respectively) and "Ciutat de Carlet" (mention in the youthful modality). He has been supported by some state foundations devoted to talent developing and the help to high capacities, as the "Promete Foundation", and he has been granted the prize "Youngs of the Future" to the values of the youth, promoted by the Rotary Club the International. Three months ago, he took part in the Concert-Recording of the unknown masterpiece "Rhapsodie Basque pour orchestre et piano", by the French composer Charles Bordes, with the collaboration of the Spanish conductor Jose Luis Estellés. Recently, he has been selected one finalist of the European grant promoted by the foundation Yamaha Europe, that will take place soon, and which is destined to grant only one Spanish pianist. As soloist, he has worked masterpieces of Chopin, Liszt, Albéniz, Debussy, Beethoven and Ravel, among others. At the present time, it attends with excellent qualifications second course of the modalities of Piano and Conducting in the Basque Country School of Music (Musikene), under the trusteeship of Gustavo Diaz-Jerez and Enrique García Asensio, permanent conductor of the "Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra" during more than 20 years in the past. He feels special predilection for the Spanish nationalism, the romanticism and french impressionism. * Famous performances: Jorge Bolet, Georges Cziffra, boris berezovsky, Joyce Hatto, Arthur Rubinstein, Cludio Arrau. * Other piano works: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, Liebestraum, Mephisto Waltz, Funerailles, Rigoletto: Conc Paraphrase, La Campanella, Grand Galop Chromatique, Sposalizio, Sonetto 104 Del Patrarca, Vallee D'Obermann, Tarantella, Ballade No.2 In B, Feux Follets, Ricordanza, Harmonies Du Soir, Totentanz (Danse Macabre). |
 | Charlie Rose: March 6, 1995 A conversation with Felix Rohatyn, Senior Partner at Lazard Freres, about President Francois Mitterand of France. He also discusses escaping the Nazis as a child in France, his investing mentor Andre Meyer, his criticsm of the Democratic Party, and saving New York City from bankruptcy at the Municipal Assistance Corporation. |
 | Well-Known People's Initials AA-IZ This has a picture and brief description of one well-known person with initials AA through IZ. Every person in this installment has a Wikipedia article. Songs are: "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor, "Rockstar" by Nickelback, and "Makin' It" by David Naughton. No copyright infringement intended. Any association between a particular person and a particular lyric of a song is purely coincidental. Because not all the names are completely legible, here is the comprehensive list of this installment: Andre Agassi, Alexander Graham Bell, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Albert Einstein, Aretha Franklin, Alan Greenspan, Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Iverson, Angelina Jolie, Angela Kinsey, Abraham Lincoln, Alanis Morissette, Alfred Nobel, Ashley Olsen, Al Pacino, Anthony Quinn, Alex Rodriguez, Alan Shepard, Alex Trebek, Al Unser, Amerigo Vespucci, Andy Warhol, Ai Xuan, Artur Yusupov, Andy Zaltzman, Bud Abbott, Barry Bonds, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan, Bill Engvall, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Bob Hope, Bindi Irwin, Billy Joel, Buster Keaton, Burt Lancaster, Bill Murray, B. J. Novak, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, Brady Quinn, Burt Reynolds, Bart Starr, Billy Bob Thornton, Brian Urlacher, Bobby Vinton, Barry White, Bu Xiangzhi, Boris Yeltsin, Billy Zane, Christina Aguilera, Carol Burnett, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Darwin, Clint Eastwood, Chris Farley, Charles J. Guiteau, Christiaan Huygens, Charles Ives, Carl Jung, Carole King, Charles Lindbergh, Colin Mochrie, Chuck Norris, Conan O'Brien, Cole Porter, Colin Quinn, Chris Rock, Carl Sagan, Charlize Theron, Carrie Underwood, Charles L. Veach, Christopher Walken, Chris Xefos, Chuck Yeager, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Adams, David Beckham, Dick Clark, Danny DeVito, Duke Ellington, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Doc Holliday, Darrall Imhoff, Davy Jones, Don King, David Letterman, Dan Marino, David Niven, David Ogilvy, David Hyde Pierce, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Rodman, Deion Sanders, Dave Thomas, Dan Uggla, Diego Velázquez, Denzel Washington, Dai Xianglong, Dick York, Dainius Zubrus, Ed Asner, Ernest Borgnine, Eric Clapton, Ellen DeGeneres, Emilio Estevez, Edie Falco, Elliott Gould, Evander Holyfield, Eric Idle, Elton John, E. L. Konigsburg, Eva Longoria, Eddie Murphy, Edward Norton, Ed O'Neill, Elvis Presley, Eddie Quillan, Edward G. Robinson, Emmitt Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, Edgar G. Ulmer, Elmer Valo, Eli Whitney, Edmedê Xanî, Eddie Yost, Eric Zeier, Frankie Avalon, Fantasia Barrino, Fidel Castro, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Francisco Elson, Farrah Fawcett, Frank Gifford, Florence Henderson, Frank Isbell, Felix Jones, Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang, Ferdinand Magellan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frank Oz, Freddie Prinze, Jr., François Quesnay, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Sinatra, Fran Tarkenton, Fabiana Udenio, Frank Viola, Frank Lloyd Wright, Francis Xavier, Felix Yusupov, Frank Zappa, Gene Autry, George W. Bush, George Clooney, Greg Daniels, George Eads, George Foreman, Galileo Galilei, Gene Hackman, Grant Imahara, Gordon Jump, Garry Kasparov, George Lucas, Groucho Marx, Greg Norman, George Orwell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Quinn, Ginger Rogers, Gwen Stefani, George Takei, Gene Upshaw, Gore Vidal, George Washington, Gu Xiaobing, George Yardley, Giuseppe Zangara, Hank Azaria, Humphrey Bogart, Hillary Clinton, Hilary Duff, Herman Edwards, Harrison Ford, Hugh Grant, Hugh Hefner, Henrik Ibsen, Hugh Jackman, Harvey Keitel, Hugh Laurie, Harpo Marx, Hikaru Nakamura, Haley Joel Osment, Hans Pfitzner, Harriet Quimby, Harold Ramis, Hilary Swank, Henry David Thoreau, Harold Urey, Harold E. Varmus, H. G. Wells, Han Xin, Hou Yifan, Hans Zimmer, Isaac Asimov, Ingrid Bergman, Irene Cara, Iain Dowie, Ijeoma Egbunine, Ian Fleming, Ignazio Gardella, Isaac Hayes, Ike Ibeabuchi, Irène Jacob, Ini Kamoze, Ida Lupino, Ian McKellen, Isaac Newton, Igor Olshansky, Ivan Pavlov, Ike Quartey, Irene Rich, Igor Stravinsky, Ike Turner, Ime Udoka, Israel Vázquez, Ivey Wingo, Irene Xavier, Ibrahim Yattara, Ignacio Zuloaga |
 | ADN Un homme prend de grands moyens pour obtenir la femme de ses rêves. Idée originale : Simon Perrier Réalisation: Guillaume Fortier Lumière & Montage : François Gamache Camére: Jeff Denis Son: Denis-Steve Giguère Montage sonore: mathieu Campaga Musique Félix-Antoine Vallières Comédiens:Jean-Jacqui Boutet, Charles Caron, Marie-Ève Laroche |
 | GIORGIO @ CATHEDRALE DE LUXEMBOURG 2008 Notre-Dame de Luxembourg est la cathédrale de l'archevêché de Luxembourg, à Luxembourg (ville). L'histoire de la cathédrale est liée à celle de la Compagnie de Jésus. En 1594, les premiers Jésuites s'installèrent à Luxembourg. Le 7 mai 1613 commença l'édification de leur église conventuelle. Les travaux furent achevés en 1621, et le 17 octobre, l'église fut consacrée à l'Immaculée Conception. En 1773, la Compagnie fut supprimée. Leur église à Luxembourg devint, en 1778, une église paroissiale, sous le nom de Saint-Nicolas-et-Sainte-Thérèse. En 1794, l'église accueillit la statue miraculeuse de la Consolatrice des Affligés (voir ci-dessous), qui se trouvait auparavant dans une chapelle de l'enceinte. En 1801, l'église changea de nouveau de nom : elle fut cette fois dédiée à saint Pierre, avant de retrouver sa dédicace à la Vierge Marie en 1848. Le 27 septembre 1870, l'église fut élevée au rang de cathédrale. Au XXe siècle, un agrandissement de la cathédrale fut décidé. Les travaux commencèrent le 12 mai 1935 et se poursuivirent jusqu'en 1938. Le chœur fut réaménagé en 1962--1963, suite à quoi la cathédrale fut de nouveau consacrée le 8 décembre 1963, jour de la fête de l'Immaculée Conception. La crypte qui fait partie de l'agrandissement de la cathédrale au XXe siècle est dédiée à saint Pierre. Elle fait fonction de nécropole de la famille grand-ducale et contient les tombeaux des évêques de Luxembourg. C'est dans cette crypte que Jean l'Aveugle, roi de Bohême et comte de Luxembourg a trouvé son dernier repos. Ce chevalier infatigable que l'on retrouve un peu partout en Europe, qu'il s'agisse de son comté natal ou du royaume de Bohême, de l'Allemagne où il fut le lieutenant de son père ou en Italie du Nord, à la cour et sur les champs de bataille des rois de France ou auprès des papes à Avignon ou encore en Lituanie lors des croisades de l'ordre teutonique, était le fils de l'empereur Henri VII et père de Charles IV. Il trouva la mort en 1346 au champ de bataille de Crécy au service du roi de France, dans une des premières campagnes de la guerre de Cent Ans. La cathédrale Notre-Dame de Luxembourg, de par son histoire, est devenue un temple de la mémoire luxembourgeoise. Le caractère national de l'édifice est souligné le jour de la Fête nationale quand la cérémonie officielle organisée par le gouvernement prend la forme d'un service d'action de grâces auquel participent les autorités luxembourgeoises et le corps diplomatique. L'édifice du XVIIe siècle est une église gothique posthume. Sur son portail principal en style baroque primitif on retrouve la statue de la Vierge entourée des apôtres Pierre et Paul ainsi qu'Ignace de Loyola et François Xavier, fondateurs de la Compagnie de Jésus. Plus tard une statue de saint Nicolas compléta l'ensemble. Le portail de la nouvelle partie de la cathédrale est marqué par l'ornementation due au sculpteur luxembourgeois Auguste Tremont et qui comprend presque cent figures humaines, une cinquantaine de représentations d'animaux et un riche décor végétal. Les battants en bronze des portes ont été réalisés par le même artiste. Parmi les œuvres présentes dans la cathédrale, on peut retenir : les grandes verrières du cœur créées par Louis Barillet de Paris les verrières de la tribune grand-ducale de Josef Oberberger de Munich et représentant des personnages de la maison comtale médiévale les vitraux d'Émile Probst, représentant des scènes bibliques (épisode de Tobie dans le tympan de la porte de la cour intérieure, délivrance de saint Pierre dans le tympan de la chapelle du Sacré-Cœur) ou des pères jésuites (Pierre Canisius, Robert Bellarmin, François Xavier, Ignace de Loyola, etc.) vitraux des années 1848-1860 en provenance des ateliers Maréchal de Metz et représentant des scènes de la vie de la Vierge les verrières abstraites de 1966 situées à la tribune d'orgue sont de Jacques Le Chevallier, à l'inspiration des verrières de Notre-Dame de Paris qu'il a réalisé un an auparavant. jubé décoré par des plastiques en albâtre (Renaissance tardive) piliers cylindriques ornés d'un système de bandeaux entrelacés Un tableau, L'Adoration des rois mages, de Jacques Nicolaï, de l'école de Rubens peintures murales de Friedrich Stummel de Kevelaer (1897) les deux buffets d'orgue : orgue symphonique de Haupt (1938) orgue classique de Westenfelder (1995) Dans la crypte : lions en bronze de l'animalier luxembourgeois Auguste Tremont (1936/37) stations du chemin de croix de Félix Baumhauer de Munich autels du statuaire luxembourgeois Claus Cito avec des reliefs représentant les saints Henri et Cunégonde, Hubert et Willibrord . ¤¤¤¤Notre-Dame Cathedral (Luxembourgish: Kathedral Notre-Dame, French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame, German: Kathedrale unserer lieben Frau) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It was originally a Jesuit church, and its cornerstone was laid in 1613. |
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