Handmade in Canterbury
There is nothing more special than something genuinely hand-made and imbued with the maker’s love, creativity and skill.
Canterbury has a surprising number of crafts-people doing just that; from chocolate to jewellery and pottery to gin–it’s all here!
See more about Handmade in Canterbury on mycanterbury.co.uk.
Secrets d'Histoire - Prince Charles, aux marches du trône… (Intégrale)
Il est rare que l’émission « Secrets d’Histoire » soit consacrée à un personnage vivant. Pourtant, en vous présentant à Londres, devant Buckingham Palace, la vie du prince Charles, futur roi d'Angleterre, Stéphane Bern nous propose de partager un moment de notre histoire contemporaine.
Du prince Charles, on croit tout connaître, tant sa vie publique et privée a été photographiée ou filmée depuis sa naissance il y a près de 70 ans... Dans ce numéro inédit de « Secrets d’Histoire » Stéphane Bern dépasse ce soir les clichés qui ont illustrés la presse people en nous proposant de découvrir la vraie vie, les convictions, les passions et les engagements personnels très concrets du prince Charles. Il est le plus méconnu des hommes connus, l'héritier direct du trône d'Angleterre, celui qui sera appelé à régner le jour où la reine Elisabeth II, sa mère, disparaîtra ...
Pour la première fois des caméras françaises ont été autorisées à pénétrer à Clarence House, la résidence privée du prince Charles à Londres. Vous allez donc découvrir un intérieur chargé d’histoire et d’émotion, où les tableaux de famille côtoient les photos plus personnelles des enfants et petits-enfants du Prince.
Les propriétés du prince de Galles reflètent à la fois son attachement à la tradition britannique, à son art de vivre légendaire, mais aussi son goût pour la création, notamment dans les jardins de Highgrove, sa propriété privée à la campagne que nous allons aussi visiter en exclusivité...
Autre première à la télévision française, des images personnelles de la famille Royale, où l’on y voit un jeune prince de 4 ans jouant avec son père le prince Philippe, filmé par sa mère, la Reine elle-même.
Grâce aux témoignages des historiens et de ses proches amis qui ont accepté de participer pour la première fois à une émission de télévision, nous connaitrons mieux l'homme et ses idées.
Vous verrez comment, grâce à sa fondation « Prince’s Trust » , le prince Charles aide des milliers d’anglais à trouver un travail…comment avec sa marque de produits bio il créé des emplois et conçoit l’agriculture de demain…et comment il a imaginé des habitations écoresponsables en pilotant la construction de villes « modèles » …
Et puis nous lèverons le voile sur le couple atypique qu’il forme avec son amour de toujours, Camilla Parker Bowles, la duchesse de Cornouailles.
American Soprano Marie TIFFANY: Psyche (1920)
American Soprano Marie Tiffany / Psyche (Paladilhe) / Recorded: Unpublished 1920 Brunswick test --
Marie Tiffany (Chicago, Illinois, July 8th, 1881 - New York City, New York, April 12th 1948) ~ American operatic soprano, a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1916-1928 where she made a total of 208 appearances. She created roles in several world premieres at the Met and was notably the only performer to appear in all three one act operas at the premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico in 1918. Born Marie Berg in Chicago, of a Norwegian family, she spent her childhood in Phoenix, but went to France for her training and debut, returning home at he outbreak of WWI and found her niche at the Met. Tiffany married court reporter Willis N. Tiffany in 1900 and resided with him for 16 years in California where she was a soloist at the First Presbyterian Church of Pasadena. In 1916 she moved to New York City where she soon became a member of the Metropolitan Opera. She made her Met debut on November 17, 1916 as the Milliner in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier under conductor Artur Bodanzky. She remained at the Met for the next 12 years, singing mainly comprimario roles. She performed in several world premieres at the Met, including Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims (1917), Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis (1918), Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico (1918), Albert Wolff's L'oiseau bleu (1919), and Henry Kimball Hadley's Cleopatra's Night (1920). She also portrayed the role of Pomone in the United States premiere of Xavier Leroux's La reine Fiammette. Some of her other Met roles were Clémence in Mireille, Frasquita in Carmen, Gerhilde in Die Walküre, Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, the High Priestess in Aida, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Mme. Dufresne in Zazà, Poussette in Manon, the Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel, Suzanne in Louise, and the Young Woman in L'amore dei tre re. Her last appearance in an opera at the Met was on April 7, 1928 as Nella in Gianni Schicchi. She returned to the Met stage for one concert appearance in 1929. She recorded first for Edison and later Brunswick. (Sources: wikipedia; Houston Maples; special thanks to George Laurell)
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Johannes Sembach Lohengrin Mein lieber schwann Columbia Tricolor A5889 enregistré le 25avril1
Johannes Sembach - Lohengrin - Mein lieber schwann - Columbia Tricolor A5889 enregistré le 25avril1916
Johannes Sembach (also Johannes Semfke) (March 9, 1881 – June 20, 1944) began his musical career in German operetta and achieved international fame as a leading tenor in German opera, especially the works of Richard Wagner.
Sembach was born Johannes Semfke in Berlin to glass craftsman Eduard Semfke and his wife Friederike Becker. His musical talent led to early work as an organist, choir director, and composer, publishing several compositions while still a teenager. He began vocal studies at the Stern Conservatory in 1899 as a baritone, but soon left to join the roster of the Apollo-Theater (de), an operetta and vaudeville entertainment palace in Berlin. Handsome, hardworking, and a superb musician, Sembach thrived at the Apollo from 1901 to 1904, appearing in several operettas by the Apollo's music director, Paul Lincke, including Frau Luna (de), Lysistrata, Nakiris Hochzeit, and Im Reiche des Indra (de).
In 1904 he auditioned for Gustav Mahler, then Director of the Vienna Opera, and was offered a contract.[1] Leaving the name Semfke and baritone roles behind, Sembach joined the Vienna Opera as a tenor and made his debut as Moser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on November 13, 1904. For three seasons, he sang primarily smaller roles in Vienna along with a few leading roles. In 1907 he joined the Dresden Opera, making his debut as Don José in Carmen on August 18. In Dresden, Sembach participated in many important performances including the Dresden premiere of Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Minnie Nast as Cio-Cio San and as Aegisth the world premiere of Strauss's Elektra on January 25, 1909.
Sembach secured a leave from his Dresden post in 1911 to study with legendary tenor Jean de Reszke in Paris, staying with the tenor for a year and a half. He reemerged as a performer in 1913, singing in London, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. He joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 1914 where he debuted in the title role of Wagner's Parsifal on November 26 and became known for the lyricism and beauty he brought to heldentenor roles in the Wagnerian repertory. In 1916 he performed the title role in Wagner's Siegfried in several open-air performances as part of a stadium tour of the northeast and midwest. Along with his achievement in works by Wagner, Sembach sang Pylades in the Met premiere of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (performed in German as Iphigenie auf Tauris) on November 25, 1916, and the role of Chaucer in the world premiere of Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims. He sang in the American premieres of two works by his former mentor Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde with the Philadelphia Orchestra on December 15, 1916[2] and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen a month later in New York.
Due to growing anti-German sentiment and the formal entry of the United States into World War I, Sembach's Met contract, along with those of several other German members of the company, was abruptly cancelled on November 2, 1917. The tenor remained in the United States throughout the war, working occasionally with German colleagues in an ensemble called the Madrigal Quartet.
Of all of the German artists dismissed in 1917, Sembach was the only one to return to the Met after the war. During the 1920/21 season, he performed in Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, and Parsifal in English before these operas were reinstated in the repertory in their original language the following season. Following the illness of Enrico Caruso, Sembach also took on that tenor's assignment in Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila, though he did achieve success as Samson. His contract was not renewed after the 1921/22 season and Sembach returned to Germany where he occasionally appeared as a guest artist in Hamburg, Berlin, and Dresden. After two barn-storming tours across the United States with soprano Johanna Gadski's German Grand Opera company which produced dozens of performances of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung between 1929 and 1931, Sembach retired from the stage to teach voice in Berlin.
During the last year of World War II, Sembach fled the German capital for Bremerhaven where he died on June 20, 1944, presumably from injuries sustained during the June 18 bombing of the city by Allied forces.
Source : Wikipedia
American soprano Marie TIFFANY: Kiss Me Again (1918)
American soprano Marie Tiffany (1881-1948) / Kiss Me Again / from Mlle. Modiste (Victor Herbert) / Recorded: December 2, 1918 in New York City --
Marie Tiffany (Chicago, Illinois, July 8th, 1881 - New York City, New York, April 12th 1948) ~ American operatic soprano, a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1916-1928 where she made a total of 208 appearances. She created roles in several world premieres at the Met and was notably the only performer to appear in all three one act operas at the premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico in 1918. Born Marie Berg in Chicago, of a Norwegian family, she spent her childhood in Phoenix, but went to France for her training and debut, returning home at he outbreak of WWI and found her niche at the Met. Tiffany married court reporter Willis N. Tiffany in 1900 and resided with him for 16 years in California where she was a soloist at the First Presbyterian Church of Pasadena. In 1916 she moved to New York City where she soon became a member of the Metropolitan Opera. She made her Met debut on November 17, 1916 as the Milliner in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier under conductor Artur Bodanzky. She remained at the Met for the next 12 years, singing mainly comprimario roles. She performed in several world premieres at the Met, including Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims (1917), Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis (1918), Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico (1918), Albert Wolff's L'oiseau bleu (1919), and Henry Kimball Hadley's Cleopatra's Night (1920). She also portrayed the role of Pomone in the United States premiere of Xavier Leroux's La reine Fiammette. Some of her other Met roles were Clémence in Mireille, Frasquita in Carmen, Gerhilde in Die Walküre, Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, the High Priestess in Aida, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Mme. Dufresne in Zazà, Poussette in Manon, the Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel, Suzanne in Louise, and the Young Woman in L'amore dei tre re. Her last appearance in an opera at the Met was on April 7, 1928 as Nella in Gianni Schicchi. She returned to the Met stage for one concert appearance in 1929. She recorded first for Edison and later Brunswick. (Sources: wikipedia; Houston Maples; special thanks to George Laurell)
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Le Canal en Octobre on my Beltuna Sara 3 D/G melodeon
Lovely tune by Frederic Paris from his CD 'Rue de l'Oiseau'. This is one of my all time favourites.
Played on my Beltuna Sara 3, it starts up in the top octave (like a lot of European tunes), and then dips down to the usual lower area of the keyboard (usual for British players that is!).
A Man For All Seasons
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. 1966, renewed 1994 Highland Films, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
[MultiSub] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Adventure 11 “The Final Problem”
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Source: Doyle, A.C. (1892) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes London, England: George Newnes Ltd.