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Chambonnières's and career
As the Fronde civil war went on, Chambonnières's career was still on the rise.
The first serious blow to Chambonnières's career was landed also in 1657, by the King, who engaged Étienne Richard as the royal harpsichord teacher, thereby injuring Chambonnières's pride and making his position at the court less secure.

Chambonnières's and on
Le Parnasse François, a famous 1732 book by Évrard Titon du Tillet, contains an account of Chambonnières's visit: apparently Louis, François, and Charles visited Chambonnières on the feast of Saint James — Chambonnières ' name day — and offered the host and his guests a short concert, playing several pieces composed by Louis.
Many of Chambonnières's misfortunes were almost certainly brought on by the appointment of Jean-Baptiste Lully as Surintendant de la musique de la chambre: learning to perform basso continuo still would have diminished Chambonnières's status at the court, reducing him to a small part of Lully's orchestral force.

Chambonnières's and with
The Champion family included many musicians, most notably Thomas Champion ( also known as Mithou ; not to be confused with his English namesake ), Chambonnières's grandfather, whom Marin Mersenne described as " the greatest contrapuntist of his time.

Chambonnières's and Louis
About 1650 / 51 Louis Couperin and his brothers gave a small private concert at Chambonnières's Le Plessis-Feu-Aussoux manor, to celebrate the older composer's name day.

Chambonnières's and Le
The title Chambonnières originally belonged to Chambonnières's maternal grandfather: it was the name of a small manor in the commune of Le Plessis-Feu-Aussoux.
The first serious losses, however, must have occurred in 1657, when a lawsuit was brought that resulted in the sale of Chambonnières's manor and land at Le Plessis-Feu-Aussoux, for a comparatively small sum.

Chambonnières's and .
" Chambonnières's father, also named Jacques, was also a keyboard player and a composer.
In 1637 Chambonnières's salary was the same as his father's, and soon after the latter's death in 1642 Chambonnières became the only harpsichordist.
Chambonnières's only extant letter, to Christiaan Huygens.
Dated 8 January 1656, it shows Chambonnières's continuing interest in making a journey to the north.
Chambonnières's wife died in the early 1650s.
Chambonnières's harpsichord works were appearing already in manuscript collections dating from the late 1650s, but he had not yet published any of his music.
Chambonnières's financial situation probably ceased to be stable already in the early 1650s, when the Fronde armies laid the Brie region to waste.
According to violist Jean Rousseau, Chambonnières's contemporary, the composer was obliged to resign since he could not execute basso continuo accompaniment.

dancing and career
Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons to complete her education, whereas Brigitte decided to concentrate on a ballet career.
Riefenstahl took dancing lessons and attended dance academies from an early age and began her career as a self-styled and well-known interpretive dancer, traveling around Europe and working with director Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal.
She started her career as " Happy Hotpoint ", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet.
She commented that " I used to take my toenails — they would die from dancing — so I would just take the whole toenail and throw it away, and not feel anything ," however, ballet instilled in her discipline that would be important in her future acting career.
Six months later, she left the university to focus on her choreography and dancing career.
The resulting notoriety hampered her career in England and she departed for the Continent, where she became famous more for her beauty and quick temper than for her dancing.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.
The career of the Astaire siblings resumed with mixed fortunes, though with increasing skill and polish, as they began to incorporate tap dancing into their routines.
Shankar gave up his dancing career in 1938 to go to Maihar and study Indian classical music as Khan's pupil, living with his family in the traditional gurukul system.
So You Think You Can Dance season 3 winner Sabra Johnson resided in Roy before moving to New York, New York to pursue her dancing career.
However, a fall while dancing in a masque lamed him for life and ended this career.
He began a career in show business, singing and tap dancing.
She eventually got a scholarship to the School of American Ballet, but after suffering a serious knee injury at age 15, she gave up her dancing career.
Duncan began her dancing career by teaching lessons in her home from the time she was six through her teenage years.
At the age of 15 in December 1928, June eloped with Bobby Reed, a dancer in the act, much to her mother's displeasure, going on to a brief career in marathon dancing, which was more profitable than tap dancing at the time.
Horton started his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in Vaudeville and in Broadway productions.
She retired from dancing in 1916 to pursue a teaching career.
Outside her career, her interests include writing poetry and fiction, playing guitar and violin, singing, and dancing.
Suffering a serious knee injury, Balanchine had to limit his dancing, effectively ending his performance career.
She started to learn dancing when she was young, and started her film career in parallel cinema, when she was 15.
Cara's performing career started when she was a child on Spanish-language television, professionally singing and dancing.
Towson continued his acrobatic dancing career and directed the Musawwir Gymnastic Dance Company which performed from a home base in Manhattan for ten years, approximately 1976-1986.
The highpoint of Helpmann's career as a dancer was the Sadler's Wells Ballet tour of the United States in 1949, with Fonteyn and Helpmann dancing the leading roles in The Sleeping Beauty.
Miller also credits Powell for inspiring her own dancing career, which would lead her to become an MGM musical star a decade later.

dancing and continued
Kelly continued to make frequent TV appearances and, in 1980, appeared in an acting and dancing role opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu ( 1980 ), an expensive theatrical flop which has since attained a cult following.
In 1944, due to continued involvement in World War II, the United States levied a 30 percent federal excise tax against " dancing " nightclubs.
He continued dancing, teaching dance and building up a following which included older female clientele who would let him borrow their luxury cars.
The continued flourishing of gay square dancing continues to influence the rest of the square dance community.
In 1897, the theatre began to screen films as part of its programme of entertainment, In 1904, Alfred Butt became manager and continued to combine variety entertainment, including dancing girls, with films.
He was encouraged by his colleagues to audition for a music contest and he initially became part of Orquesta Expresiones where he continued singing and dancing.
The site continued to be used, both for ceremonial purposes and as a fringe camp, for some years after British settlement in 1835, as is evidenced by Jacob Miller who told his son how he had witnessed the remnant Kulin population " perform their dancing about the old tree " after moving into the area during the 1850s.
In the 1920s he ensured that the Savoy continued to attract a fashionable clientele by a continuous programme of modernisation and the introduction of dancing in the large restaurants.
At the same time, Leno's clog dancing continued to be so good that in 1880 he won the world championship at the Princess's Music Hall in Leeds, for which he received a gold and silver belt weighing 44. 5 oz ( 1. 26 kg ).
The Vaishnavite Temples such as Jagannath Temple and Konark Sun Temple abound with an array of dancing sculptures carved into the temple walls, giving testimony that a particular school of dancing had continued from the Shaivite art tradition to the Vaishnavite art form.
The consecration of females to the service of temple dancing began in the Shaivite temples and continued in the Jagannath temple in service of the Lord Jagannath.
In the beginning, his music had a simple structure, but over time it matured into a more lyrical, richer, playful and more subtle style which remained popular with tango dancers as it continued to have a clear dancing beat.
She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.
After the decline of the Hollywood musical in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but continued to appear in film and TV productions from the 1960s through the 1990s.
As the women continued dancing, the basket fell and plunged into the earth.
' Blues dancing ' - continued in African American communities throughout the United States.
For twelve years he continued as a dancing master and violinist.
While he was in the army, he taught ballroom dancing and one of his clients convinced him to try being a salesman, which he continued to do after his two-year enlistment was up.
Markova remained the Prima ballerina of the company until 1952, after which she continued to appear regularly as a guest dancer until her retirement from professional dancing.
Open-air dancing continued until the 1940s, but by then the attraction had lost its appeal, and the platform was converted to a roller skating rink.
In April 1961, Kalonji declared himself as emperor of the region in a traditional tribal ceremony, and then returned to Bakwanga, where he was " carried through crowds of chanting, singing and cheering Balubas " and dancing continued outside his royal palace there for four days.
" Other dancers, like Jean-Georges Noverre, praised her enthusiastically, but Sophie Arnould, who thought that she had more graceful gesture than true dancing talent, remarked, after a piece of scenery fell and broke her arm in January 1766, after which she continued to make public appearances gamely, her arm in a sling, " Poor Guimard!

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