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The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.
A biography of Slowinski titled The Snake Charmer was written in 2008 by Jamie James. Three species have been named after Slowinski: a species of North American corn snake ( Pantherophis slowinskii ), [ 2 ] a species of bent-toed gecko native to Myanmar ( Cyrtodactylus slowinskii ), and a species of krait native to Vietnam ( Bungarus slowinskii ).
Art of the Highland Bagpipe Vol. 1; Art of the Highland Bagpipe Vol. 2; Art of the Highland Bagpipe Vol. 3; King of the Highland Pipers; Piping Centre 1996 Vol. 2; Piping at the Edinburgh Academy; John D. - A One Off; His track The Wandering Piper as was included by Topic Records in their 70th anniversary album Three Score and Ten.
These include two quartets for flutes, 'The Realm of Dolls' and 'Scenes from the City of Saint Francis-by-the-Sea'; 'Prelude to Pan,' 'Caprice Terpsichore,' 'A Waltz of the Stars,' and 'Claire de Lune' for flute solo; 'The Snake Charmer,' for flute, voice and piano; 'The Cry of the Flute' for voice and flute; a 'Phantasy Japanoise,' for flute ...
Dave "Animal" Maltby – guitar on "Snake Charmer" and "Sleazy" François Kevorkian – production, drum programming on "Snake Charmer", synthesizer on "It Was a Camel" Jaki Liebezeit – drums on "Hold on to Your Dreams" Ben Mandelson – guitar on "It Was a Camel" Herb Powers Jr. – mastering; Paul "Groucho" Smykle – production, engineering
"Around the Horn" began in 2002 with Max Kellerman as its original host. Reali took over hosting duties in 2004 and has remained in the role ever since.
Duncan created a new style of idiosyncratic bagpipe music. [1] He also incorporated the bagpipes into a rendition of AC/DC's Thunderstruck. [2] His work was heard at T in the Park, Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours in Canada, the Lorient festival in Brittany, where he was the two-time winner of the MacAllan Trophy and the Fleadh Cheoil in ...