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Ratatouille. (soundtrack) Ratatouille (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2007 Disney / Pixar film of the same name composed by Michael Giacchino. The film marked Giacchino's second Pixar film after The Incredibles, which was also directed by Bird and also the second Pixar film not to be scored by Randy Newman or ...
Portrait by Édouard Dubufe. Charles-Valentin Alkan[ n 1 ][ n 2 ] ( French: [ʃaʁl valɑ̃tɛ̃ alkɑ̃]; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, among the leading pianists in ...
Camille was born and raised in Paris. [ 1] Her mother was a teacher of English and her father, Hervé Dalmais, was a musician. [ 2] As a teenager, she studied ballet and developed an interest in bossa nova music and American stage musicals. [ 1] She attended the prestigious Lycée International de Saint Germain-en-Laye, where she obtained her ...
Operas like Puccini's Madam Butterfly and Rousel's Le Festin de L’Araignée similarly reference arthropods. [ 1 ] Pop groups named after insects include Buddy Holly and the Crickets , The Beatles , Adam and the Ants and many others. [ 2 ]
Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre ("Don Juan or The Feast of Stone") is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. [ 1] The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he ...
According to John J. Collins, Belshazzar's feast is a legend conforming to the subgenre of the "tale of court contest", complicated by the inclusion of Daniel's indictment of Belshazzar's pride and his failure to honour the God of Israel. As a result, the tale has a double ending, in which Daniel is first showered with rewards and honours for ...
The Feast of the Gods ( French: Le Festin des dieux) is a painting by the Dutch painter Jan van Bijlert, created around 1635–1640. It is in the Musée Magnin in Dijon, France. It is one of a number of pictures in western art to depict the feast of the Gods, in this case at the marriage of Thetis and Peleus, with Bacchus in the foreground, and ...
Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38]