L'Histoire

Inspired to act after seeing Isabelle Adjani in Francois Truffaut's 1975 classic "L'Histoire d'Adele H," Ms. Green went to an English-speaking school in Paris and studied acting at the Saint Paul drama school there.

Actress Eva Green's Perfect Sense of Character Elizabeth Fitzherbert 2011

Glenn Beck's ignorance of the facts is a shame, but, as Alain René Le Sage said in 1735 in book X of his novel Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane), "Facts are stubborn things."

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind 2010

Glenn Beck's ignorance of the facts is a shame, but, as Alain René Le Sage said in 1735 in book X of his novel Gil Blas (L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane), "Facts are stubborn things."

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind 2010

Since L'Histoire du Soldat was the news at Castleton this weekend, Joe Banno took a look at a 2010 CD of an updated version of the work. by Joe Banno

On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire" 2010

The final production, which opened on Friday and ran for three performances through the festival's conclusion Sunday, was a double bill of Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" and Falla's "Master Pedro's Puppet Show," staged in the charming and diminutive home theater Maazel built on his private estate for his own amusement.

Opera Review: Performances of Stravinski and Falla close the Castleton Festival 2010

No such reversals of fate await the protagonist of novelist Kurt Vonnegut's freshly conceived 1993 text for "L'Histoire" -- retitled "An American Soldier's Tale" and receiving its first recording on a Summit label CD (DCD 532) -- which tells the true, World War II-era story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.

On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire" 2010

The Falla, unlike "L'Histoire," is a rarely done curio; here, it became a delight.

Opera Review: Performances of Stravinski and Falla close the Castleton Festival 2010

Stravinsky's 1918 theatrical chamber work, "L'Histoire du Soldat" ( "A Soldier's Tale"), set to music a folk-tale-based text by C.F. Ramuz in which a soldier trades his violin to the Devil in return for a book that will make him rich.

On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire" 2010

It isn't only young unknowns, either: Jennifer Koh, the concert violinist, played in the pit for "L'Histoire du Soldat," while the cellist Han-Na Chang tested her mettle as a conductor, quite successfully, in the Falla.

Opera Review: Performances of Stravinski and Falla close the Castleton Festival 2010

[5] Émile Boudreau et Léo Roback, L'Histoire de la FTQ, des tout débuts jusqu'en 1965, (Montréal: FTQ, 1988), 346-347.

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