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...Charpentier tells a story in the poised and formal gestures of French court music, but with Italianate fluidity and sweetness. The violent denouement should be all the more shocking for this....
...As the title suggests, Henze’s oratorio is inspired by Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting of the real-life events of 1816, in which French frigate the Méduse was shipwrecked off the cost of west Africa....
...She was joined in oblivion by Shirley Jaffe, whose untitled 1954 canvas looks like a city seen through a break in the clouds by a myopic bird....
...Which first name was shared by the French scientists Fourier and Lamarck? What is the bestselling film soundtrack album of all time?...
...Few contemporary artists could match this — but step into Kew’s Shirley Sherwood Gallery and Mat Collishaw’s “Albion” immerses you in a silvery moonlit forest where a near-life-sized negative of a tree is...
...Not for nothing do the French refer to the Mary Jane as babies....
...The cadavre exquis, he explains, was “popularised by a group of French surrealists, including André Breton, nearly a century ago”. But the explanation doesn’t help....
...But it was, according to French author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, an expression of pure melancholy....
...A few weeks ago, French president Emmanuel Macron was in Angola, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo — and it was in the DRC, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest state, that we saw Europe...
...Dinner was a hotdog soused in American mustard; drinks were Shirley Temples and malted shakes. The atmosphere was pure joy. I am not alone in my obsession....
...In 2007, it was acquired by French software services company Sopra Steria. This August marks the company’s 60th birthday....
...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
.... ★★★★☆ Ironically, the music that sounded newest on this mid-festival weekend was that of 18th-century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, dusted off and given a makeover by Teodor Currentzis and his...
...What mark out I Would Not Live Always as unique are both Flynn’s voice — mournful, deep, expressive — and the adventurous arrangements of songs by celebrated British folk authorities Shirley Collins and...
...— and their explorations of their own cuisines, from Chinese to Mexican, French to Iranian, in and outside America....
...What’s the English name for the postwar movement in French cinema led by Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut (above) and others?...
...Beyoncé delivered a fashion feast with her Black Is King film in which she wore a moon-print bodysuit by French rising star Marine Serre....
...While Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor for the environment, told the FT in a video interview this summer that city authorities’ aim was “a car-free recovery”, Rowena Champion, Islington council’s...
...Perhaps, for outsiders visiting the Bastille, otherness lies in the bewildering French need to turn even a portrayal of a hip-hop underground gangland into a thing of lavish style and beauty....
...Alceste was the second of Gluck’s “reform” operas, performed here in its 1776 French version, designed to do away with Baroque excess and shock listeners with its emotional directness....
...When Hannigan decided to leave her previous European base in Amsterdam a couple of years ago, it was the obvious choice: she speaks fluent French and makes frequent guest appearances both with the Opéra...
...Two reliable, top-class choices in the cordon category are Moneymaker and Shirley, though the latter is best in a greenhouse....
...Charlotte Brontë’s 1849 novel Shirley contains the first recorded use of which alliterative two-word term for frontier America?...
...She updates the action to a submarine in 1940s French waters; designer Annemarie Woods’s painstaking recreation of an oversized submersible is reportedly one of the most expensive sets in the company’s history...
...I’d walked into the studio of Shirley Tse, in the Inglewood district of Los Angeles, expecting to meet the queen of plastics....
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