Word: rebirth
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Olivier Messiaen’s Réveil des Oiseaux (Awakening of the Birds) is, curiously enough, precisely what its title says. It is not some symbolic interpretation of the dawn of spring or the rebirth of nature. Instead, the listener is provided with a list of the names of 38 different birds in five different languages, beginning of course with the original French. The music imitates the different calls of all these birds in succession, with limited variation of the calls infused into the piano solo...
...album kicks off with the bombastic alarm-like bass-line and trance keyboard effects of the album’s single, “Nothing at All.” It is a rebirth anthem more akin to the dazzling electronics of Madonna’s “Ray of Light” than to the Chemical Brothers. The wondrous textures Slater crafts on “Stars and Heroes” and “Searchin’ for a Dream” are slices of the finest future techno, the sort of stuff one might listen...
Mazzoleni, who came to Harvard at the start of the 1999-2000 season, has been the catalyst for this rebirth...
...bank's bad debts and promised to take back any that turned south through to the spring of 2003. Collins hired Masamoto Yashiro, 72, who ran Citigroup's highly successful retail operation in Tokyo, as ceo. LTCB was born again as Shinsei Bank, which was appropriate: shinsei means rebirth...
...Tigers (15-9-3, 10-6-0) are hoping for a rebirth of sorts., praying that the regular season doesn’t matter once the playoffs begin, or at the very least, that they can revert to pre-Christmas form. Before the new year, Princeton upset top-ranked Dartmouth, 3-1, and downed Harvard in overtime...