Jean Claude Carrère

Mike Patton and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, who is perhaps best known for his work with Serge Gainsbourg, have come together on the 12-song album, Corpse Flower.

Rendre claires et séduisantes les démonstrations des grands classiques de la géométrie plane sous l'éclairage de la géométrie projective, tel est l'objectif de ce livre. Suivant comme fil conducteur les notions d'homographie et de dualité, Jean-Claude Sidler démontre, dans un langage simple et moderne, des théorèmes d'une grande souplesse et d'une grande fécondité, qui ont pour nom Pappus, Desargues, Pascal, Chasles…

The work is an extraordinary curiosity; a child of the heady days just before the French Revolution, Tarare is the famous French writer's only opera and one of the Italian composer's rare French scores. First and most strikingly a work of social and political commentary, Tarare is also an entertaining work of theatre. Salieri's music supports these aims admirably and offers a few memorable moments of its own. As an opera form, Tarare defies easy categorization; it may be best described as a comedic satire dressed in the clothes of a sprawling 5 act lyric tragedy, complete with Prologue and a grand divertissement with dance.