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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A new page is turning for the company XY, as with each project. More stripped down, very choreographic, this creation offers their acrobatic language new and generous escapes, under the impulse of Rachid Ouramdane who takes care of both the surges and the collapses.
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This exciting mix of essential Berlioz masterpieces will be showcased in a variety of different programmes at prestigious venues in both Europe and the US, including concert halls in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Versailles. A world-class roster of acclaimed soloists will join the orchestra for these much-anticipated performances including French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot (La mort de Cléopâtre, excerpts from Les Troyens).
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
World premiere: The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées joins forces with the Ravel Edition for this production to offer the two concertos and the Boléro in a new revised edition in which Louis Langrée and Bertrand Chamayou have actively collaborated.
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For the young producer Norman Granz, the signing of Charlie Parker to the Mercury label was a real coup. The saxophonist had been thinking for some years about the opportunity to record music outside his usual quintet. The “Charlie Parker with Strings” project was an old dream of his that he realized in 1949. With an oboe, a few violins, a viola, a cello, a harp, a piano, a double bass and drums, he gave a new sound to classics of the 1930s like...
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As part of the Valletta International Baroque Festival, an event entirely in keeping with the identity and the baroque architecture of the city, the ensemble of musicians and singers has chosen to introduce us to motets, musical compositions of one or more voices written from a text, sacred or secular. He plays the Te Deum composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, played for the first time in 1699.
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's only fair that the drummer who invented Afrobeat pays tribute to the drummer who invented hard bop. For the last few years that Tony Allen has been enjoying a second youth in Paris and elsewhere, we have tended to forget that his very particular style, of touching and pounding, comes as much from his African and Nigerian sources as from the rhythmic boppers that were Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, and, in particular, Art Blakey.
11) Bound by Flesh
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable documentary tells the amazing story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who rose to superstardom at the beginning of the 20th century as sideshow attractions, performing alongside the likes of Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin. Ruthlessly exploited by their managers, the sisters ultimately sued for their freedom-which they won at a terrible cost. A gripping, roller-coaster tale of showbiz tragedy, BOUND BY FLESH puts a touchingly...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
It was the swinging 30s. The big bands of the 40s. It was San Francisco night life – Baghdad by the Bay. And the crowds were packing the nation’s premiere all-Chinese nightclub, Forbidden City. Like the Cotton Club of Harlem which featured America’s finest African American entertainers, Forbidden City gained an international reputation with its unique showcase of Chinese American performers in eye-popping all-American extravaganzas.FORBIDDEN...
13) Eat the Kimono
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture’s contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups. “You mustn’t be eaten by the kimono,” says Genshu, making reference to the traditional Japanese dress designed to...
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