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