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Pendant des siècles, rien ne laissait penser que les Sodomites se livraient exclusivement à la sodomie: ils étaient "arrogants", manquaient aux "devoirs de l'hospitalité", vivaient dans la luxuria et la terrible vengeance divine s'était abattue sur eux. Cc n'est qu'au Xe siècle que se trouve monté en épingle le martyre de saint Pelage, jeune éphèbe captif décapité pour s'être reflué aux pressantes sollicitations d'Abd al-Rahmân III. …

The most brilliant of Belgian composer César Franck's compositions were written during the final decade of his life; the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, the famous Violin Sonata, the D major String Quartet, and, perhaps most important, the Symphony in D minor are all the products of a single, remarkable five-year period. The Symphony, by no means an immediate success with critics or audiences, has nevertheless become so fused with the popular image of César Franck that it is nearly impossible to think of him without also thinking of this 40-minute orchestral juggernaut. And yet the work is by no means an empty audience-pleaser: as with all of his final compositions, the Symphony shows a superb synthesis of Franck's own uniquely rich harmonic language and cyclic themes with the traditions of Viennese Classicism that he had come to revere later in life (principally through the music of ).

Michael Jordan : The Life est la biographie définitive d un basketteur qui possédait tout : le sens du spectacle, la maîtrise des airs et une technique parfaite. Rarement un sportif aura autant fait pour la popularité de sa discipline à l échelle mondiale. …