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  • The work, "Concerto for Four Soloists," will receive its premiere on Thursday, on a bill that also includes excerpts from Albert Roussel's opera "Padmâvatî."

    Restoring the National's Glory David Mermelstein 2011

  • The first half of the program which repeats on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. was occupied with two suites and an aria from Albert Roussel's opera "Padmavati," a heavy-lidded and sensuous piece of French Orientalism so rich that O'Connor's voice in the aria was veritably swallowed up by the eggy music around it.

    NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence 2011

  • Angélique Roussel (Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost), lay sister, b. at Fresnes, 4 August, 1742, professed 14 May, 1769;

    27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009

  • This most American of major poets is, it turns out, a firm advocate of "the three R's": Raymond Roussel, Pierre Reverdy the great modern French poet whom he has also translated and Rimbaud.

    Foreign to Familiar, Essence Intact Eric Ormsby 2011

  • Angélique Roussel (Sister Mary of the Holy Ghost), lay sister, b. at Fresnes, 4 August, 1742, professed 14 May, 1769;

    The Holy Martyrs of Compiegne John 2009

  • The Habs are losing a lot of bodies off the blue line, and Roussel could become the best native Quebec defenceman they've had since the departure of Eric Desjardins 15 years ago.

    2009 NHL mock draft, first round 2009

  • Charles Roussel represents the best two-way package of this grouping.

    Talent runs deep among defensemen in 2009 NHL Draft 2009

  • Scouring patent databases, Dr. Jung discovered a compound made by the former French drug maker Roussel Uclaf that locked onto the androgen receptor about 100 times more strongly than the commonly used prostate-cancer drug, Casodex.

    Gaining on Prostate Cancer Ron Winslow 2012

  • More permanent than avant-garde delirium is avant-garde sobriety, like the moment in an essay by Michel Leiris on the poetry of Raymond Roussel, where Leiris classes Rimbaud and Roussel – these two visionary poets who tried to make language expressive of the infinite – as twin souls of disillusion: who in turn dissolved the ideas "that literature 'changes life', that its exercise transforms us into a kind of God."

    Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011

  • By a generation of French readers schooled in the works of Robbe-Grillet, Roussel, Federman, Sarraute, Sollers, Pinget and Butor, and the films of Godard and Resnais, such an approach would be almost intuitively understood.

    Ballardian » ‘Le passé composé de J. G. Ballard’: JGB on Empire of the Sun 2009

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