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Chevalier (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Stephen Williams, based on the life of French-Caribbean musician Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, featuring original music composed by Kris Bowers, and also features classical compositions from the 18th century (some includes the own work of de Saint-Georges), reworked and ...
The official motion picture soundtrack for The Da Vinci Code with Thomas Bowes (violinist), King's Consort Choir, Hugh Marsh, Orchestra, Richard Harvey, Hila Plitmann, Martin Tillman was released on May 9, 2006 via Decca label.
1780 Raynal and Bonne Map of Guadeloupe.Basse-Terre (in yellow) is a volcanic island in the French West Indies. Chevalier de Saint-Georges, also known as Joseph Bologne was born on 25 December 1745 in Baillif, Basse-Terre, the illegitimate son of a settler and planter Georges Bologne de Saint-Georges and Nanon, a 17-year-old African slave who served within the family household. [12]
The Big Pond gave Chevalier his first big American hit songs: "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" with words and music by Al Lewis and Al Sherman, plus "A New Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). [11] He collaborated with film director Ernst Lubitsch. He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade (1930).
Chevalier is a 2022 American biographical drama film based on the life of the titular French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. Directed by Stephen Williams and written by Stefani Robinson, it stars Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Marton Csokas, Alex Fitzalan, Minnie Driver and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo.
The song is a well-known standard, recorded by many artists, though Chevalier's versions (in English and French) and Frank Sinatra's version are best known. The song was referenced in the 1963 comedy A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and featuring Chevalier playing himself.
1944 "Louise" Famous Music Corp. Sheet Music. The same year of Chevalier's recording, Bing Crosby also recorded the song. [4] Crosby's version was recorded on March 15, 1929 with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra [6] and was a hit in that summer. [4] Crosby also recorded a comedy version with The Rhythm Boys on April 10, 1929.
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with Maurice Chevalier, its original performer. It opened and closed the 1958 film Gigi . Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of Gigi , and in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between Victoria ...