I remember Ernest Bloch in the foyer, shouting in his high-pitched voice: `` it may be a tour de force, mais mon Dieu, can anyone take this music seriously ''??

* Virtual tour to la Pedrera de Gaudí ( casa Milà )

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

Devo played their first European tour since 1990 in the summer of 2007, including a performance at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim.

The Société d ' exploitation de la tour Eiffel ( SETE ) now considers any illumination of the tower to be under copyright.

The Director of Documentation for what was then the Société nouvelle d ' exploitation de la tour Eiffel ( SNTE ), Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, " It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve.

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

His measurements of the tiny effect produced in the apparatus he used were an experimental tour de force, accomplished 18 years before the electron was discovered.

Vermes calls the Jesus notice in the Testimonium a " veritable tour de force " in which Josephus plays the role of a neutral witness.

This article has been described as a "… tour de force, for it covers in less than seven pages the entire taxonomic syntax of Ilocano.

Her portrayal of a troubled theatre-goer in Secret Friends ( BBC 2, 1990 ) was described as " a miniature tour de force ... Miranda Richardson's finest hour, all in ten minutes " ( The Sunday Times ).

Nina Willdorf of the Boston Phoenix described Cruz as " multi-talented " and Mark Salvo of the Austin Chronicle wrote " I may be one of the last male holdouts to join the Cruz-Rules camp, but her tour de force performance here sucks you right in.

It was a tour de force of improvisation … all that ended it was I got fed up with it, that's all.

Roosevelt was the force behind the completion of the Panama Canal ; sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to demonstrate American power ; and negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In France during the war the tour de force Children of Paradise directed by Marcel Carné ( 1945 ), was shot in Nazi occupied Paris.

De Camp's most highly regarded works in the genre are his time travel and alternate history stories, including Lest Darkness Fall ( 1939 ), " The Wheels of If " ( 1940 ), " A Gun for Dinosaur " ( 1956 ), " Aristotle and the Gun " ( 1958 ), and The Glory That Was ( 1960 ) – in the last of which the " time travel " actually turns out to be a tour de force of historical recreation.

* The Glory That Was ( 1960 )-a tour de force incorporating most of de Camp's major interests into one work

Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described Legend as " a weird rather slow-moving first novel ... a horrid, violent, sometimes exciting but too often overdone tour de force.

In support of this mission, SAMS ' leaders view AMSP as a three-phase program: ( 1 ) military intermediate level education at the United States Army Command and General Staff School or equivalent, ( 2 ) AMSP, and ( 3 ) a tour as an operational planner in the force.

They did so with an engineering tour de force: a DOHC 7. 6-liter four-cylinder ( 110x200 mm ) with four valves per cylinder.

The Hollywood Reporter called it " an artistic tour de force ... in all ways, a triumph for Frank Capra.

" William Du Bois ( 1903 – 1997 ) called the book " a first rate tour de force that is well worth the attention of every thoughtful citizen in this age of anxiety.

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

A reminder of their earlier folk incarnation was Kaukonen's solo acoustic guitar tour de force, " Embryonic Journey " ( his first composition ), which referenced contemporary acoustic guitar masters such as John Fahey and helped to establish the popular genre exemplified by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke.

50, No. 1, did composers perform the tour de force of writing a complete sonata exposition with just one theme.

Glenda Jackson's tour de force performance in the title role won her 2 Emmy Awards-for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Best Actress in a Movie / TV Special ( for the episode " Shadow in the Sun ").

In 1976 Norman acquiesced and recorded Something New under the Son, a blues-rock concept album that some regard as his tour de force, and as " one of the roughest, bluesiest, and best rock and roll albums of his career or the whole industry ", that took its title from " an ironic inversion of a phrase in Ecclesiastes ", namely: " there is nothing new under the sun " ( Ecclesiastes 1: 9b ).

One of the rarest items in the collection is the 58 cm high Gloucester Candlestick, dated to c1110, made from gilt bronze ; with highly elaborate and intricate intertwining branches containing small figures and inscriptions, it is a tour de force of bronze casting.

Paul's solo on ' Blues ' is an astonishing tour de force and represents a memorable contest between himself and Nat ' King ' Cole.

In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.

It featured future jam standards " Whipping Post " and a 12 / 8 time slide guitar tour de force " Dreams ".

He worked on the score during his concert tour of 1845, adding his own text for " Nature immense, impénétrable et fière "— Faust's climactic invocation of all nature — and incorporating the Rákóczi March, which had been a thunderous success at a concert in Pest, Hungary, 15 February 1846.

In 1843, Douglass participated in the American Anti-Slavery Society's Hundred Conventions project, a six-month tour of meeting halls throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

A decision had been reached amongst members of Incubus in a face-to-face meeting at the end of the Morning View tour to discuss his involvement in the band.

This meeting, held at Gloucester Hotel in London, united all of women's professional tennis into one tour.

Van Vliet did meet McCartney in Cannes during the Magic Band's 1968 tour of Europe, though McCartney later claimed to have no recollection of this meeting.

The tour will have both an East Tour and a West Tour, starting simultaneously in New York and San Francisco, and meeting midpoint in Kearney, Nebraska for a celebration June 30 – July 2 at the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, in conjunction with the Lincoln Highway Association 2013 conference.

In October 1998, Corgan convened a band meeting where Chamberlin was reinstated as the group's drummer and the band decided to break up after one more album and tour.

Matter of fact we had a meeting this past week, and I know Jimmy's gotta go do an Eyehategod tour in February.

While preaching a revival meeting in Alabama, Dr. Dolphus Price met Gen. Wheeler's daughter, Annie, and was given a tour of their famous Flower Garden.

He visited Ottawa during this tour and had a private meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, during which he spoke about the principles of TM and " the possibility of structuring an ideal society.

At the conclusion of a 1993 tour of Australia, Japan, and Europe, the group held a meeting in a hotel room in Copenhagen during which Malkmus, Kannberg and Ibold remained silent while Nastanovich ( Young's best friend at the time ) argued with the drummer and informed him that his antics were unnecessary.

The character of the young elector had been stamped by his Calvinist nurturer Calcum, a long stay in the Dutch Republic during his grand tour, and the events of the war, of which a meeting with his uncle Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in Pomerania was among the most impressive.

Even though no progress was made at the meeting, he persuaded the admirals to send him on a tour of the island, under their protection, in order to explore the people's opinions on the question of autonomy versus union.

After a fruitless meeting in the spring of 1871 with the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to obtain funds, Wagner embarked on a fundraising tour across Germany, including Leipzig and Frankfurt.

From Merce's death at age 90 through the Board's last meeting in 2012, the Legacy Plan implemented his wish that the Company complete a worldwide legacy tour and then close.

The public may visit the exhibition rooms ( the Sutcliffe Room and Giles Room ) by prior appointment or pay for a guided tour of the College meeting rooms in which various exhibits are displayed.

In May 1964, after a number of players failed to show up for a meeting in a hotel about a forthcoming tour, amongst them Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Moore and Bobby Charlton, they eventually returned to their rooms to discover their passports left on their beds.

He was the first chairman of its council, and, except during his tour in India in 1888, when he brought the Institute to the notice of the Indian authorities, he was hardly absent from a single meeting.

Together they run a clothing company called ' Tour Crush ', named after a pet name the couple have for each other due to meeting on tour.

In response, it was agreed at the yearly general meeting that a financial reservoir needed to be developed that could weather a bad economy, namely a concert tour endowment.

He organized a farewell tour across his home country, travelling through several cities, meeting with fans, offering tennis clinics, and playing friendly matches with international and local tennis players such as Petr Korda and Goran Ivanišević.

After numerous complaints about the revamped attraction, including a Disney stockholder who questioned CEO Michael Eisner about Figment's absence during the company's annual shareholders meeting, a modest 2002 refurbishment modified the 1999 version to add the dragon as a playful foil for Dr. Channing throughout the Imagination Institute tour.

In 1880, a British official reached the Karenni border on his tour of southern Shan State and invited East Karenni chief Sawpja Sao Lapaw to have a meeting with him.

He continued to makes albums as a leader and sideman throughout this period as well, one of which was The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers, a collaboration that documents the first meeting of DeJohnette and guitarist Bill Frisell in 2001 and led to another tour, with Frisell and Jerome Harris.