Luc Ferrari - Luc Ferrari Luc Ferrari (born February 5, 1929) is a French composer, particularly noted for his tape music. Ferrari was born in Paris and studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger. His first works were freely atonal. In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States to meet Edgard Varese, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and had impressed him. This seems to have had a great effect on him, with the tape part in Déserts serving as inspiration for Ferrari to use magnetic tape in his own music. In 1958 he co-founded the Groupe des Recherche Musicales with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche. He has taught in institutions around the world, and has worked for.
Pierre Schaeffer - and became a centre of musical activity afterwards. In 1949, Schaeffer met Pierre Henry, and the two founded the Group de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC) which received official recognition from ORTF in 1951. They gave him a new studio, which included a tape recorder. This was a significant development for Schaeffer, who had previously had to work with turntables to produce his music. His continued experimentation led him to publish A la recherche d'une musique concrete (The Search for a Concrete Music) in 1952, which was a summation of his working methods up to that point. Schaeffer left the GRMC in 1953, but reformed it in 1958 with Luc Ferrari and François-Bernard Mâche as the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). With the founding of the Service de Recherche de l'ORTF.
Lamborghini - maker, Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A.. Its owner Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993) was an enthusiastic owner of sports carss, including a Ferrari. The standard tale goes that he took this car back to the Ferrari factory when its clutch failed. Enzo Ferrari refused to meet him. So - after fixing the clutch with surprising ease - he decided to go into business building his own exotic sports cars. Featuring bodies designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Marcello Gandini, Lamborghini's products are amongst the most expensive, and also most powerful, road-going vehicles made. Lamborghini's products included the Miura (1966), Countach (1974), Jalpa (1981), and Diablo (1990) as well as the LM002 (1986) off-road vehicle of which Road and Track magazine said, "With the 5.2 liter V-12, the LM002 can pass anything on the road - except.
List of 20th century classical composers - - 1962) Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934) JAK Ellis Georges Enesco (1881 - 1955) Manuel De Falla (1876 - 1946) Morton Feldman (1926 - 1987) Brian Ferneyhough (born 1943) Luc Ferrari (born 1929) Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956) Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, (born 1922) David First (born 1953) Carlisle Floyd, (born 1926) Peter Racine Fricker (born 1920) Johannes Fritsch, (born 1941) Patrick Frye III (born 1957) Henry Flynt Ellen Fullman (born 1957) Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) Kyle Gann (born 1955) Peter Garland (born 1952) Roberto Gerhardt George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960) Jon Gibson (born 1940) Paul Gilson (1965 - 1942) Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983) Umberto Giordano (1867 - 1948) Janice Giteck (born 1946) Philip Glass (born 1937) Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938) Alexander Goehr Carl Goldmark.
List of people by name: Fe - Sarah, (1931-2003), British aristocrat Ferguson, Trevor, (b. 1947) Canadian writer Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, (born 1919), poet Fermat, Pierre de, (1601-1665), French mathematician Fermi, Enrico, (1901-1954), Italian physicist Fernandel, (1903-1971), French comedian Fernandez, Adrian, Formula I driver Fernandez, Gigi (born 1966) Tennis player Fernandez, Mary Joe, tennis player Fernau, Rudolf, (1898-1985), actor Ferner, Alexander, aristocrat Ferner, Benedikte, aristocrat Ferner, Carl-Christian, aristocrat Ferner, Elisabeth, aristocrat Ferner, Stella, aristocrat Ferneyhough, Brian, (born 1943), composer de Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani (1864-1930), electrical engineer Ferrara, Domenico Maria Novara da, (died 1504), Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus Ferrari, Enzo, (1898-1988), Italian car designer Ferrari, Lodovico, (1522-1565), mathematician Ferrari, Luc, (born 1929), composer Ferraro, Geraldine, (born 1935), U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1984 Ferrars, Elizabeth, author Ferrary, Philipp von, (1850-1917), philatelist Ferré, Léo, Singer Ferre, Luis A, (born 1905),.
List of early European musique concrete experimentalists - early European musique concrete experimentalists Pierre Henry Pierre Schaeffer Luc Ferrari Iannis Xenakis see also: List of musicians by genre.
Jean-Luc Picard - Jean-Luc Picard Jean-Luc Picard is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise. He is played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and several films. The character was devised by Gene Roddenberry. The fictional Jean-Luc Picard is named after Dr. Jean Piccard, a Swiss scientist and high-altitude balloonist. Picard was born in Labarre, France on July 13, 2305 to Maurice and Yvette Picard. He graduated from Starfleet Academy in 2327. He served as first officer aboard the Stargazer, and then as her captain. During his command of the Stargazer, Picard originated a battle tactic now known as the Picard maneuver. During a battle with another starship, Picard moved the Stargazer close to the.
Jean-Luc Godard - Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) was one of the most influential French film directors of the 1960s. Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Lyon and at the Lycée Rohmer and the Sorbonne in Paris. While at the Sorbonne he became involved in a Paris film club and became attatched to a group including François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Eric Rohmer. When André Bazin founded his critical magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, Godard with Rivette and Rohmer were among the first writers. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Films 2 Godard and Politics 3 Later Films 4 Filmography 5 See Also Early Films Like many writers for Cahiers du cinéma, Godard started making some brief forays into film direction. His.
Jean-Luc Lagardère - Jean-Luc Lagardère Jean-Luc Lagardère, February 10, 1928 - March 14, 2003) was a major French businessman. Jean-Luc Lagardère was a Supelec engineer. He began his career in Dassault Aviation. CEO of Matra in the 1960s, he became famous with success in Formula 1 and Le Mans. He later built a large media and defense conglomerate that bears his name. The Lagardère Group is among the largest French enterprises..
Jean-Luc Dehaene - Jean-Luc Dehaene Jean-Luc Dehaene (born August 7 1940) is a Belgian politician. He was born in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing for the German troops. He got into politics through the Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond (ACW), a trade union which was closely linked to the Christelijke Volkspartij. In 1981 he became Minister of Social Affairs and Institutional Reform, until 1988, when he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Traffic and Institutional Reform. Dehaene I (1992-1995) In 1992, after both Guy Verhofstadt and Melchior Wathelet had failed, he managed to form a governing coalition of christian-democrats and social-democrats. This became one of Belgium's most important governments, because it successfully transformed Belgium into a federal state. In March 1993, Dehaene offered the King the resignation of his.
Ferrari - Ferrari Ferrari is an Italian manufacturer of racing cars and exclusive, expensive sports cars, formed by Enzo Ferrari (in 1946 as an independent brand), now owned by the Fiat group. It is based in Maranello, near Modena, Italy. The origins of the company go back to the Scuderia Ferrari racing team, which from 1929 to 1938 prepared and raced Alfa Romeo cars very successfully under the leadership of Enzo Ferrari. "Scuderia Ferrari" literally translated in English means "the Ferrari Stable" in keeping with their prancing horse emblem; figuratively, it has come to be known as "Team Ferrari." In 1940 the Scuderia became the "Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari" and in 1943 the factory moved to Maranello, which is still now its see. Here it produced cars and.
Enzo Ferrari - Enzo Ferrari Enzo Ferrari (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) was the founder of Ferrari. Born in Modena, Italy he grew up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars. During WW I he was a mule-skinner, his father and brother died in 1916. Leaving the army, the family firm had collapsed and Ferrari sought work with Fiat but could only find it with the small firm CMN. He took up racing in 1919, initially with little success. He left CMN in 1920 to work at Alfa Romeo, racing their cars in local races he had more success. In 1923, racing in Ravenna, he acquired a Prancing Horse badge (a WWI pilot symbol), although this did not make it onto a car until.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (January 12, 1876 - January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his comic operas, I quattro rusteghi (1906) and Il segreto di Susanna (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni. Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice. His father was a painter, and sent Ermanno to Rome to study art. From there he went to Munich, and it was while there that he decided to concentrate instead on music, taking lessons from Josef Rheinberger. He wrote his first works in the 1890s. In 1900, having failed to have two previous efforts published, Wolf-Ferrari saw the first performance of one of his operas, Cenerentola, which was given in Venice. This was a failure at its premiere,.
Scuderia Ferrari - Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is Italian for Stable Ferrari. The initials S F on the logo below is what it stands for. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
January 21 - finally allowed to use a computer again. Births 1738 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (†1789) 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate Army general (†1863) 1850 - Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (†1927) 1855 - John Moses Browning, inventor (†1926) 1867 - Ludwig Thoma, narrator, dramatist and lyricist (†1921) 1867 - Maxime Weygand, French General (†1965) 1884 - Roger Baldwin, ACLU president, social activist (†1981) 1885 - Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (†1978) 1895 - Cristobal Balenciaga, couturier (†1972) 1922 - Paul Scofield, actor 1924 - Telly Savalas, actor (†1994) 1925 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (†1992) 1926 - Steve Reeves, actor (†2000) 1939 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey, actor (†1995) 1941 - Richie Havens, musician 1941 - Placido.
Jacky Ickx - Unfortunately his front suspension broke and he was forced to retire after 12 laps. Despite his retirement he made a strong impression on the F1 team managers. At Monza he made his official F1 debut in a Cooper-Maserati, finishing 6th. In 1968 Ickx drove a Formula 1 car for Ferrari. He retired from his first two races, but at his home race at Spa-Francorchamps he started from the front row and finished 3rd. At the French Grand Prix at Rouen he took his first win, in the pouring rain! Ickx also finished third at Brands Hatch and fourth at the Nurnburgring. At Monza he finished the race in third position, after driving almost the entire race without his helmet visor. In Canada his luck left him when he crashed and broke.
James Hunt - the next season. 1976 was Hunt's top year, as he won six Grand Prix. A seventh win at the British Grand Prix was disallowed as he used his spare car in at the race's restart. Still, this was enough to beat Ferrari's Niki Lauda to the title, after the Austrian withdrew from the season's final race due to the wet conditions. The following season started unlucky for Hunt, although he eventually won three GPs and placed 5th in the Championship. But in 1978, he hardly scored any points, and then moved to Wolf for what would be his last Formula One season. Hunt later became a tv commentator, and died at the age of 45 of a heart attack..
Jean Alesi - driver of Italian origins. Jean Alesi drove a long time in F1 for Ferrari and was very popular among the tifosi. Starting his career with a passion for Rallying rather than racing, Alesi graduated to single seaters through the French Renault 5 championship. In the late 1980s he was very much a coming man in motor racing, winning the 1988 French Formula 3 title, and following it up in 1989 with the International Formula 3000 crown, both after duels with his rival Erik Comas. Also in 1989, he made his Grand Prix debut at Paul Ricard in the French Grand Prix, finishing 4th first time out. 1990 was his first full year in Grand Prix racing, with the underfunded, unfancied Tyrrell team. At the first race in America he caused a.
Gerhard Berger - that his F1 career took off. Exploiting the exceptional power of the BMW trubo engine, Berger won his first Grand Prix in Mexico, and was snapped up by Ferrari for 1987, the first of 2 spells he had with the team. After mechanical failures robbed him of the chance to perform, Berger came on strongly in 1987, winning the final two rounds of the season, going into 1988 as a Championship favourite. Sadly for Berger, the McLaren team of Prost and Senna dominated the season, winning 15 of the 16 rounds. Berger was the only driver to break the McLaren stranglehold, winning the Italian Grand Prix after Senna tangled with a slower car. This was a particularly poignant victory for the team, as it came just weeks after the death of.
Grand Prix Legends - "VROC" (Virtual Racers Online Connection). The major weak point is a very steep learning curve as the cars are quite difficult to drive well. Some people said that this is why GPL did not sell very well. The cars available include the Lotus 49, Ferrari 312, Eagle T1G, Brabham BT24, and the BRM P115. There are also two fantasy cars to choose from, the Murasama and the Coventry - thinly disguised stand-ins for the Honda RA300 and the Cooper T86 (licensing issues precluded these marques from being included in the package). There is a 3rd party patch available to put the Cooper and Honda back on the starting grid if you wish. Certainly the essence of GPL is the talent required to finesse these classic cars around the challenging circuits of.
