Marche

Essai du paléoanthropologue sur la place de la bipédie dans l'évolution humaine et sur l'importance de la marche pour l'homme moderne. …

A partir d'exemples pris dans l'actualité récente, l'auteur montre les travers de la marchandisation à outrance et la perte des valeurs qu'elle entraîne. …

La saisie en 2016 d’une Vénus au voile attribuée au maître de la Renaissance Lucas Cranach, de la collection du prince de Liechtenstein, révèle un scandale comme le monde de l’art n’en a jamais connu. L’un après l’autre, des tableaux passent sous le microscope de laboratoires américains et européens. Brillantes contrefaçons d’un maître faussaire ? Authentiques chefs-d’œuvre du passé ? Ou tout simplement honorables copies d’époque ? …

Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) Bellini, unlike many of his colleagues - among them Donizetti - did not have to endure the disappointments and difficulties ofrising from the ranks. His Bianca e Gernando, in 1826, was well received at Naples’s Teatro San Carlo, and one year later, atthe age of twenty-six, the composer triumphed at Milan’s La Scala with Il Pirata. Norma is not only the high point of Bellini’sartistic parabola but also the quintessence of Italian belcanto. The present DVD, filmed at the Sferisterio Opera Festival ofMacerata in August 2007, features, in the title role, the famous Greek soprano Dimitra Theodossiou, one of today’s best interpretersof Norma.

La Marche des Hommes was released after a three-year hiatus and presented a completely revamped Morse Code. All lyrics are in French and the music is firmly anchored to the British progressive rock bandwagon. Leader Christian Simard wrote most of the music and the group relied on poet Chantal Dussault for words. The topics were kept universal and humanitarian ("La Marche des Hommes" translates to The Walk of Men). The title track stands out: complex like a premium Yes suite, it attempted (and succeeded in) summarizing all the possibilities and talents of the group into one 11-minute song. The utopian "Le Pays d'Or" (The Land of Gold) is strongly influenced by French group Ange, Simard finding the right emotive inflections in Christian Décamps' register…