The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

The document was signed for Russia by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Industry Minister Ilya Klebanov, while Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and defense and security strongman Serge Sarkisian signed for Armenia.

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.

One of his low points as Chancellor was in 1968 when Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld, who campaigned with her husband Serge Klarsfeld against Nazi criminals, publicly slapped him in the face during the 1968 Christian Democrat convention, while calling him a Nazi.

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

During 1928 – 29 Prokofiev composed what was to be the last ballet for Diaghilev, The Prodigal Son, which was staged on 21 May 1929 in Paris with Serge Lifar in the title role.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

It has been hypothesized by Serge Payette that the Spruce-Moss forest ecosystem was changed into the lichen woodland biome due to the initiation of two compounded strong disturbances: large fire and the appearance and attack of the spruce budworm.

Stravinsky met Vera de Bosset in Paris in February 1921, when she was married to the painter and stage designer Serge Sudeikin, and they began an affair which led to Vera leaving her husband.

The film was attacked by critic Serge Kaganski of Les Inrockuptibles for an unrealistic and picturesque vision of a bygone French society with few ethnic minorities.

It is suggested that he was not Peter's son at all, but that his mother had engaged in an affair — to which Elizabeth had consented — with a young officer named Serge Saltykov, and that he was Paul's real father.

It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.

Fujitsu Consulting was founded in 1973 in Montreal, Canada, under its original name " DMR " ( an acronym of the three founder's names: Pierre Ducros, Serge Meilleur and Alain Roy During the next decade, the company established a presence throughout Quebec and Canada, before extending its reach to international markets.

She recorded the title track, which was written by Serge Gainsbourg but not released until 2001, when it was included in the compilation Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg.

Originally called Serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim.

Barbusse in turn was harshly criticized for his admiration of Stalin and his propagandistic activities on behalf of Soviet Russia by his former comrade Victor Serge, who noted that Barbusse had dedicated a book to Leon Trotsky before Stalin had definitively won the power struggle against Trotsky, only to denounce Trotsky as a traitor after the latter's fall from power.

* " The Enigmatic Gigaweapon: Paradise X " – Serge finds an odd crystal inhabited by an entity named Gange, who tests his strength with gladiatorial combat.

In 1971 Howerd recorded, with June Whitfield, a comedy version of the song " Je t ' aime ", made famous by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, in which she featured as " Mavis " alongside Howerd's " Frank ", and a third unexplained sleeping partner named " Arthur ".

Serge King named the three selves " Ku ," " Lono ," and " Kane ," and articulated seven principles of Huna:

Following the Stavisky Affair, in which a Jewish man named Serge Alexandre Stavisky was revealed to be involved in high level political corruption, these groups encouraged serious rioting which almost toppled the government in the 6 February 1934 crisis.

TV5 started in 1 January 1984 and was under the management of Serge Adda until November 2004 ; the new director, named on 6 April 2005 is Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former French Minister for Culture and Communication.

Major acts who have recorded there include Walter Becker, The Kinks, Arctic Monkeys, Aerosmith, Counting Crows, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Marc Anthony, The B-52's, Tony Bennett, Michael Brecker, Devo, Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Dream Theater, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Throwing Muses, Serge Gainsbourg, The Strokes, Bryan Adams, Bernadette Peters, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett Trio, Neil Young, Harry Connick, Jr., Iggy Pop, Madonna, Journey, Muse, George Michael, Betty Carter, Sum 41, John Mayer, Moby, Vanessa Williams, Blondie, Porcupine Tree, Chic, Joan Jett, David Bowie, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Rumble Strips, Trey Anastasio, Helix, Kathem Al Saher, Gang Starr, Honor Society, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the band Power Station, which was named after the studio itself.

The " Savardian Spin-o-rama ", which is a quick pivoting turn with the puck done in order to evade opponents, was coined by Danny Gallivan and named after Serge Savard, and not Denis Savard ( who was adept at the same manoeuvre ) as is often thought.

In 1910, following a schism in L ' Anarchie, Lorulot departed and Serge was named as the new editor of the paper.

The album was possibly named after the song " Le Talkie Walkie " by Serge Gainsbourg, a known influence of the duo.

Her name may be a reference to the similarly-styled policewoman character named Erika Chinen from the videogame / OVA series Virus Buster Serge, which Masami Ōbari previously did work on.

Tagging along in Serge's deathmarch / tour are Lenny, a newspaper columnist from New York City, a friend of Serge's grandfather's named Chi Chi, and City and Country, a pair of dim-witted women that Serge ditched at the beginning of The Stingray Shuffle, in 1998.

In the summer of 1994 on the stage of the National Ukraine Opera the First International Ballet Contest was held named after Serge Lifar.

According to Serge Klarsfeld, since the now complete and constant publicity which the artworks got in 1996, the majority of the French Jewish community is nevertheless in favour of the return to the normal French civil rule of prescription acquisitive of any unclaimed good after another long period of time and consequently to their ultimate integration into the common French heritage instead of their transfer to foreign institutions like during World War II.

In 2004, Australia threatened to cut its aid to Vanuatu when then-Prime Minister Serge Vohor reappointed officials who had been dismissed after being charged with criminal activity.

Victor Serge, for instance, first " spent six weeks in a cell " after a visit at midnight, then 85 days in an inner GPU cell, most of it in solitary confinement.

" Steven Spielberg came on board as producer, with the backing of Warner Bros., but after several rewrites and disagreements on the script, Spielberg left the project and was replaced by Serge Silberman, a respected producer at Greenwich Film Productions.

Tribute graffiti covers the outer wall of Serge Gainsbourg's house on the rue de Verneuil in Paris, looked after by Charlotte Gainsbourg after her father's death

He was also given the opportunity by Serge Diaghilev to write music to The Firebird after Lyadov had failed to do so.

* Destiny of a revolution by Victor Serge, London: National Book Association 1937 ( published in America as Russia twenty years after New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc .)

Bertrand Cantat and Serge Teyssot-Gay met in 1980 at secondary school after Cantat moved to Bordeaux from his hometown in Normandy ; Teyssot-Gay was 17 and Cantat was 16 at the time.

A crucial blow to her movie career occurred after she married, as her fourth husband, David Mdivani, a Georgian so-called " prince " whose brothers, Serge and Alexis, married actress Pola Negri and the heiress Barbara Hutton respectively.

** Red Serge, a ceremonial coat worn by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, after the British Army uniform

The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff was a group of former officers of the Russian Imperial Army, discovered singing in Çilingir ( near Constantinopel ), where they had fled after the defeat of their army in the Crimea.

D ' Indy ( 1903, p. 117 ), who analyses the chord as on IV after Riemann's transcendent principle ( as phrased by Serge Gut: " the most classic succession in the world: Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant " ( 1981, p. 150 )) and rejects the idea of an added " lowered seventh ", eliminates, " all artificial, dissonant notes, arising solely from the melodic motion of the voices, and therefore foreign to the chord ," finding that the Tristan chord is " no more than a subdominant in the key of A, collapsed in upon itself melodically, the harmonic progression represented thus:

Prokofiev, who had been working on the opera for years, was reluctant to let the music languish unperformed, and after hearing a concert performance of its second act given by Serge Koussevitzky in June 1928, he adapted parts of the opera to make his third symphony ( shortly afterwards, he drew on his ballet The Prodigal Son for his Symphony No. 4 in similar fashion ).

Serge Blanco captained the French side in the 1991 Rugby World Cup before retiring after their quarter-final defeat by England on 19 October 1991.

Although they were planning to deploy to the comparatively quiet port city of Bosaso, four days after arriving in Somalia commander Serge Labbé informed them that consultation with the Americans meant they would be moving to the southern town of Belet Huen, considered one of the more difficult areas to patrol.

Serge Reggiani died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 82, one day after the death of another well known French singer Sacha Distel.

He was reunited with Sergio when the older man was in Alabama, but did not meet with Serge until after their grandfather had died.

Negri followed this with her second marriage, this one to Georgian prince Serge Mdivani, which caused public opinion in the United States to sour against her because it happened so quickly after Rudolph Valentino's death.

In 2003 her book Shanghai, realized together with Serge Bramly, after a 6 month stay in the city, was published by Robert Laffont.

* Serge Robert ( double bass ; later known as Mononc ' Serge, quit after " Atrocetomique " for a solo career )