Teach-In was a Dutch band, best known for winning Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song "Ding-a-dong". The band was founded in 1969 and parted in 1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in line-up.
The group had been formed in 1969 in Enschede. The first lineup: Hilda Felix (vocals), Henk Westendorp (vocals, later in Superfly), John Snuverink (vocals, guitar), Frans Schaddelee (bass), leader Koos Versteeg (vocals & keys) en Rudi Nijhuis (drums).
The most ambitious work by 20th-century French master Olivier Messiaen, Saint Francis is also his most all-embracing. He spent nearly a decade creating the opera, which not only encapsulates the composer's abiding Catholic faith but draws on a lifetime of musical discovery and brings together the elements of Messiaen's far-ranging, rich vocabulary: birdsong and nature as a source for music, Eastern modes, complex rhythms derived from ancient Greek poetry and Hindu talas, plainsong, and percussive gamelan-like sonorities, to list a few of the most salient. Messiaen chose Francis for operatic representation as the saint "most like Christ" and wrote his own libretto, using the gentle poetry of the Fioretti.
Le guide le plus réjouissant et le plus inutile de la planète. Dans son premier opus, Randall Munroe résolvait les questions les plus saugrenues avec toute la rigueur possible (dont l'indispensable : à quelle altitude faut-il lâcher un steak pour qu'il atterrisse cuit au sol ?). Son nouveau défi, tout aussi hilarant, procède en sens inverse : inventer les réponses les plus délirantes aux questions de tous les jours. Jugez plutôt ! Comment être sûr de votre année de naissance ? En mesurant la radioactivité de vos dents…