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Great British Railway Journeys is a BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. It premiered in 2010 on BBC Two, and has returned each year for a total of eight series.

Entre 1936, quand Lady Macbeth fut descendu en flammes par un article de la Pravda cornaqué par Staline, et la disparition du dictateur en 1953, Chostakovitch vécut dans la terreur de se retrouver d’une minute à l’autre en Sibérie à compter les moustiques, voire les pissenlits côté racine.

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson.

Experience the thrill of being up in space above the Earth all alone. This wonderful animated 3D screensaver for Windows will take you up into orbit and round the Earth. You will circle our planet and see how beautiful and bright it is against the dark eternity of the Universe. You will also enjoy the night view when you can guess the continent only by the lights of large cities along the coast of the ocean. Just imagine that you are a lonely astronaut on the international space station looking down at our cradle that is so small and fragile in the dark depth of open space.

Turn your desktop into a spaceship window! This is what our planet, the cradle of human civilization, looks like. The familiar contours of continents and so far unknown to you archipelagos float through the smattering of stars - these views offer both relaxation and inspiration for new discoveries and travels.

Turn your desktop into a spaceship window! This is what our planet, the cradle of human civilization, looks like. The familiar contours of continents and so far unknown to you archipelagos float through the smattering of stars - these views offer both relaxation and inspiration for new discoveries and travels.

Turn your desktop into a spaceship window! This is what our planet, the cradle of human civilization, looks like. The familiar contours of continents and so far unknown to you archipelagos float through the smattering of stars - these views offer both relaxation and inspiration for new discoveries and travels.

Colors of Love is a Grammy Award winning 1999 album of contemporary choral music by Chanticleer to a concept designed by Frank Albinder. The album won Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards. On COLORS OF LOVE the versatile 12-voice mail vocal ensemble Chanticleer - exclusive to Teldec - sings eight distinctive works by contemporary composers. Five of the compositions were written specifically for Chanticleer, notably John Tavener's "Village Wedding," a frequent encore and one of the group's favorite works. Prominent composers from both Eastern and Western traditions are represented, including Steven Stucky, Zhou Long, and the young America woman composer, Augusta Read Thomas.