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The Sea
The Sea may refer to: *The sea, a body of salty water. Arts, entertainment, and me dia Films * ''La Mer'' (film) (''The Sea''), an 1895 French short, black-and-white, silent documentary film directed by Louis Lumière * ''The Sea'' (1933 film) (original Polish title: ''Morze''), a 1933 Polish short, documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska * ''The Sea'' (1962 film) (original Italian title: ''Il mare''), a 1962 drama Italian film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi * ''The Sea'' (2000 film) (original Spanish title: ''El mar''), a 2000 Spanish drama film directed by Agustí Villaronga * ''The Sea'' (2002 film) (original Icelandic title: ''Hafið''), a 2002 Icelandic comedy-drama film directed by Baltasar Kormákur * ''The Sea'' (2013 film) , a 2013 British drama film directed by Stephen Brown Literature * ''The Sea'' (novel), a 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by John Banville * ''The Sea'' (play), a 1973 play by Edward Bond *''The Sea'' or ''The Proverb of the Sea'', a poem by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea (play)
''The Sea'' is a 1973 play by Edward Bond. It is a comedy set in a small seaside village in rural East Anglia during the Edwardian period and draws from some of the themes of Shakespeare's '' The Tempest''. It was well-received by critics. Plot summary Set in 1907, the play begins with a tempestuous storm in which a well-known and loved member of the community drowns. It then explores the reactions of the villagers and the attempts by two young lovers to break away from the constraints of the hierarchical, and sometimes irrational, society. At the same time, the town's draper struggles with abuse and bullying from the town's "First Lady", Mrs. Rafi. Believing that aliens from another planet have arrived to invade the city, he had refused to help the drowning man's friend's attempts to save him and eventually goes stark raving mad. Original production The play was originally produced at the Royal Court Theatre on 22 May 1973, directed by William Gaskill. *Willy Carson - Simo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mer (film)
''La Mer'' (also known as ''The Sea'') is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet. The film formed part of the first commercial presentation of the Lumière Cinématographe on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand Café, 14 Boulevard des Capuchins, Paris. Production As with all early Lumière movies, this film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. It was filmed by means of the Cinématographe, an all-in-one camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. Plot This 38 second film has a very simple plot in which four boys and a plump woman (perhaps their mother) walk along a jetty A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Sea (song)
"Beyond the Sea" is the English-language version of the French song "La Mer (song), La Mer" by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby Darin in 1959. While the French original was an ode to the sea, Jack Lawrence (songwriter), Jack Lawrence – who composed the English lyrics – turned it into a love song. Versions "Beyond the Sea" has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin's version released in late 1959 is the best known by many, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 15 on the United States, US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B Chart, and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. in early 1960. Before Bobby Darin's version, two instrumental recordings reached the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Benny Goodman's version charted in 1948, and was featured in the Cary Grant/Betsy Drake romantic comedy ''Every Girl Should Be Married''. Roger Williams (pianist), Roger Williams' recording reached No. 37 in 1955. The first recording of "Beyond the Sea" was by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mer (other)
La Mer may refer to: * ''La mer'' (Debussy), an orchestral composition by Claude Debussy * "La Mer" (song), a 1946 song by Charles Trenet * La Mer (horse), a champion racehorse * ''La Mer'' (film), an 1895 film directed by Louis Lumière *La Mer, a brand of cosmetics owned by the Estée Lauder Companies *"La Mer", a song on ''The Fragile'' (Nine Inch Nails album) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840 Grand National
The 1840 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase was the second official annual running of a steeplechase, later to become known as the Grand National Steeplechase handicap horse race, which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Thursday 5 March 1840 and attracted a then smallest ever field of 13 runners. Although recorded by the press at the time as the fifth running of the Grand Liverpool, which was renamed the Grand National in 1847, the first three runnings were poorly organised affairs. The race was not run as a handicap chase and therefore all the runners were declared to carry 12 stone. Betting * 3/1 favourite was the eleven-year-old mare The Nun, who had also been sent off as favourite the previous year, only to finish seventh after falling twice. Her rider, A Powell was taking his second ride in the race, having finished in eighth last year. * 4/1 Lottery, the ten-year-old bay gelding and his partner Jem Mason who together had won the race the previous year on thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea (astronomy)
The Sea or the Water is an area of the sky in which many water-related, and few land-related, constellations occur. This may be because the Sun passed through this part of the sky during the rainy season. Most of these constellations are named by Ptolemy: * Aquarius the Water-bearer * Capricornus the Sea-goat * Cetus the Whale * Delphinus the Dolphin * Eridanus the Great River * Hydra the Water serpent * Pisces the Fishes * Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish (not named by Ptolemy) Sometimes included are the ship Argo and Crater the Water Cup. Some water-themed constellations are newer, so are ''not'' in this region. They include Hydrus, the lesser water snake; Volans, the flying fish; and Dorado Dorado () is a constellation in the southern sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish (''Coryphaena hippurus''), which is known as ''dorado'' in Spanish, altho ..., the swordfish. See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ( pl, Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis – ) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life, he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. Biography Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, a town in southeastern Lithuania that at the time was in the Russian Empire. He was the oldest of nine children of his father, Konstantinas, and his mother, Adelė née Radmanaitė (Radmann), who was descended from a Lutheran family of Bavarian origin. Like many educated Lithuanians of the time, Čiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea (Bridge)
''The Sea'', H.100 is an orchestral suite written in 1910–11 by Frank Bridge. It is also described as a symphonic tone poem.Musical Toronto Retrieved 3 September 2013 It lasts about 22 minutes. Structure It consists of four movements, about which Bridge wrote the following comments for the programme notes at the premiere: 1. Seascape: ''Allegro ben moderato'' * "Seascape paints the sea on a summer morning. From high drifts is seen a great expanse of waters lying in the sunlight. Warm breezes play over the surface."All MusicRetrieved 3 September 2013 2. Sea Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sea Symphony
''A Sea Symphony'' is an hour-long work for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. The first and longest of his nine symphonies, it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in 1910 with the composer conducting, and its maturity belies the relatively young age — thirty — when he began sketching it. Moreover it is one of the first symphonies in which a chorus is used throughout as an integral part of the texture and it helped set the stage for a new era of symphonic and choral music in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. It was never numbered. History From 1903 to 1909, Ralph Vaughan Williams worked intermittently on a series of songs for chorus and orchestra that were to become his most lengthy project to date and his first true symphony. Originally titled ''The Ocean'', ''A Sea Symphony'' was first performed in 1910 at the Leeds Festival on the composer's 38th birthday. This is generally cite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigismund Von Neukomm
Sigismond Neukomm or Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm fter ennoblement as a knight">ennoblement.html" ;"title="fter ennoblement">fter ennoblement as a knight(10 July 1778, in Salzburg – 3 April 1858, in Paris) was an Austrian composer and pianist. Neukomm first studied with the organist Weissauer and later studied theory under Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart, though his studies at Salzburg University were in philosophy and mathematics. He became honorary organist at the Salzburg University church in 1792, and was appointed chorus-master at the Salzburg court theater in 1796. Neukomm was kapellmeister at St. Petersburg's German theatre from 1804 to 1809, and in the 1810s he spent time in Brazil, South America, where he popularized the works of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Mozart. He worked at D. João VI's court in Rio de Janeiro. His works had some currency in the nineteenth century: Johann Nepomuk Hummel's op. 123 is a ''Fantasie for Piano'' on themes by Hummel and von Neukomm. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Jacqueline Bailey Rae (; born 26 February 1979) is an English singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 2006 single "Put Your Records On". Bailey Rae was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2006. She released her debut album, ''Corinne Bailey Rae'', in February 2006, and became the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one. In 2007, Bailey Rae was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards, and won two MOBO Awards. In 2008, she won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (for her work as a featured artist in Herbie Hancock's '' River: The Joni Letters'').EMI Artists and Songwriters Among Winners at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Calm
''Big Calm'' is the second studio album by English electronic music group Morcheeba. It was released in March 1998 by Indochina Records and Sire Records. The album reached the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart, while the single "Part of the Process" charted in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart in August of the same year. "The Music That We Hear", included on special-edition versions of the album, is a reworking of "Moog Island" from Morcheeba's debut album, '' Who Can You Trust?'' The album cover was inspired by that of the 1966 Ray Conniff compilation ''Hi Fi Companion''. Recording and composition The recording of the album started on Christmas Day 1995, as Morcheeba members Paul and Ross Godfrey were awaiting the release of ''Who Can You Trust?''. After basic demos had been laid down at their home studio, the duo brought in vocalist Skye Edwards and a number of guest performers to complete the record. Steve Bentley-Klein provided a string-arrangement for "The Sea", while "Let M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
