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  • Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • Things don't go so well and it's all set to Paul Dukas 'wonderful music.

    Trailer: The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010

  • The soundtrack is a version of Paul Dukas '"The Sorcerer's Apprentice", a tone poem that sets to music a poem by Goethe about an apprentice who tries to use magic while his master is away, and it all goes awry.

    Are these the first TV ads for Windows Phone 7 John Cox 2010

  • Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • The original "Fantastia" short, featuring Mickey Mouse battling enchanted broomsticks gone-wrong, was set to composer Paul Dukas '1897 piece "L'Apprenti sorcier" (Hello, public domain!) which was in-turn inspired by hundred-year-earlier poem of the same name.

    ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ Finds Love In Teresa Palmer » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • For a birthday card, here's one of my favorite shorter Messiaen pieces, the comparatively obscure "Pièce pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas," from 1936.

    The lads in their hundreds (1) Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Timothy Myers, Maazel's associate conductor for this festival, handled the rhythmic intricacies of the Dukas "Sorcerer's Apprentice" cleanly but got to its energetic climax so quickly that it seemed to hang there with nowhere to go.

    Young Castleton orchestra shows its true colors Joan Reinthaler 2010

  • For a birthday card, here's one of my favorite shorter Messiaen pieces, the comparatively obscure "Pièce pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas," from 1936.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • “It is tasteless to prolong life artificially,” he told his assistant Helen Dukas.

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • The only viable example I could come up with was Paul Dukas, who wrote one honest-to-god brilliant, astonishing, magical, all-time masterpiece, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and only fourteen other published works, none of which gained any real foothold in the repertoire.

    Rock Me Amadeus Matthew Guerrieri 2006

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