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El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet 's guitar transcription as an encore.
A catalogue aria is a genre of opera aria in which the singer recounts a list of information (people, places, food, dance steps, etc.) that was popular in Italian comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The traditional devices of the catalogue aria include a solidly neutral opening, a section of rising ...
De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811–1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838–1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and ...
The Song of the Sibyl (Catalan: El Cant de la Sibil·la [əl ˈkand də lə siˈβilːə]) is a liturgical drama and a Gregorian chant, the lyrics of which comprise a prophecy describing the Apocalypse, which has been performed in churches on Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) and Alghero (Sardinia, Italy), and some Catalan churches, in the Catalan language on Christmas Eve nearly ...
The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia’s culture ...
The Salve Marinera lyrics and music originated in the zarzuela "El Molinero de Subiza", by Cristóbal Oudrid in 1870. The lyrics of this hymn, written by Mariano Méndez Vigo, [1] are exalting the Virgin Mary as Stella Maris (Our Lady, Star of the Sea). It was adopted by the Spanish Navy as its official anthem towards the end of the 19th ...
A committee in Mexico's lower house of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that would prohibit open-pit mining and fracking, as well as restrict the use of genetically modified corn. The ...
The first known video to have held the title of most viewed YouTube video was Under the Bridge! uploaded by jawed on June 11, 2005. By June 30, it had been viewed more than 24,000 times, being the only video on the site to have accumulated more than 10,000 views at the time. [69] However, it is not known exactly when it gained or lost this title.