Word: parise
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La Mort d'Orphee, though composed in the same year as the Waverly, has a distinctly different tone. Berlioz wrote it for the Prix de Rome, the most prestigious composers' competition in Paris, but the judges deemed it too daring. This work tells the tale of Orpheus' death in three...
French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping...
So Paris' re-entry into NATO came with a condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no...
The U.N. While Washington was vetoing a second term for Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Paris led the charge in his favor.
A priority for both men is improving the performing environment for their companies. Later this month, the Kennedy Center concert hall will close for extensive acoustic renovations, to reopen in the fall. As for the opera, it plans to move out of the Kennedy Center entirely. Thanks to an $18...