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"La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, ... The English-language version of "La mer" was first recorded by Harry James and His Orchestra in 1947.
"Beyond the Sea" is the English-language version of the French song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet, popularized by Bobby Darin in 1959. While the French original was an ode to the sea, Jack Lawrence – who composed the English lyrics – turned it into a love song.
"La Mer" is Trenet's best-known work outside the French-speaking world, with more than 400 recorded versions. The tune, given unrelated English words and the title " Beyond the Sea " (or sometimes "Sailing"), was a hit for Bobby Darin in the early 1960s, and George Benson in the mid-1980s.
La mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections, the other being Nocturnes (1892–1899) and Images pour orchestre (1905–1912). The first, the Nocturnes, premiered in Paris in 1901 and though it had not made any great impact on the public, it was well-reviewed by musicians including Paul Dukas, Alfred Bruneau and Pierre de Bréville.
A French-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Silence de la mer, was released in 1949. A second English-language TV adaptation was broadcast by the BBC in 1981, and a stage version by John Crowther was performed by The Heywood Society in the theatre at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1985, under the title Talking in the Night. [4]
La Mer (also known as The Sea) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
Chateau-sur-Mer in Newport, Rhode Island, was home to three generations of the wealthy Wetmore family. Inside Chateau-sur-Mer, an Italianate-style villa known for its extravagant parties during ...
"Beau soir" (French for Beautiful Evening, or Evening Fair), L. 84, is a French art song written by Claude Debussy, first published in 1891. It is a setting of a poem by Paul Bourget . Lyrics