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Passage or The Passage may refer to:

Music[link]

• Section (music), a complete musical idea

Other meanings[link]

• Passage (architecture), a long room or hall leading to other rooms
• Passage (dressage) (pronounced to rhyme with "massage"), a form of trained slow, animated trot performed by a horse
• Passage (legislature), the process of approving a proposed law
• Passage (video game), a computer game
• A distinct section of a cave
• A narrow street with walls or buildings on both sides
• Passage of scripture (see Pericope), a selection of verses from a book of the Bible
• The Passage (charity), a charity for homeless and vulnerable people in London
• The Passage, an upscale department store in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Secret passage, a hidden route used for stealthy travel
• Transit passage, a concept in Law of the Sea
• Strait, a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water

Specific musical works[link]

• Passage (The Carpenters album), 1977
• Passage (Samael album), 1996
• Passage, a melancholic doom metal band from Quebec City
• Passage (Bloodrock album), 1972
• The Passage (band), a punk rock band from the UK
• Passages (Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass album), 1990
• "The Passage", a song by Bradley Joseph from the 1997 album Rapture
• "Passage", song by Vienna Teng on her 2004 album Warm Strangers
• The Passage (Andy Narell album), 2004
• The Passage (Boy Hits Car album), 2005

Fiction[link]

• Passage (2001 novel), a science fiction novel by Connie Willis
• Passage (2007 novel), a novel by John David Morley
• Passage (2008 novel), a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Passage (novel), a 2010 novel by Justin Cronin

Film[link]

• The Passage (1979 film), a 1979 film starring James Mason and Malcolm McDowell
• The Passage (2007 film), a film by Mark Heller
• Passage (2008 film), a documentary about Arctic explorers
• Passage (2009 film), a short movie about three sisters
• "The Passage" (Battlestar Galactica), a 2006 episode of the science fiction television series

See also[link]

• Corridor (disambiguation)
• Le Passage (disambiguation)
• Pass (disambiguation)
• Passaging, in cell culture
• Passage Island (disambiguation)
• Passage West, a town in County Cork, Ireland
• Passage planning

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Vienna Teng
Teng performing at Joe's Pub in 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Cynthia Yih Shih[1][2] (Chinese: 史逸欣; pinyin: Shǐ Yìxīn)
Born	(1978-10-03) October 3, 1978 (age 33) Saratoga, California, U.S.
Genres	Folk, pop, indie folk, chamber pop
Occupations	Singer-Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Virt, Rounder
Website	viennateng.com

Cynthia Yih Shih (b. October 3, 1978, Saratoga, California), better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour (2002), Warm Strangers (2004), Dreaming Through the Noise (2006), and Inland Territory (2009). She has also released one live album, The Moment Always Vanishing (2009), on which she is double-billed with her percussionist, Alex Wong.

Teng's musical style incorporates folk, pop, classical piano, and a cappella. She uses piano as her primary instrument and writes lyrics with emotion, narrative, and personal history.

Career[link]

Teng performing at the Independent in San Francisco

Teng took her stage name "Vienna" from the capital city of Austria. A native of Saratoga, California, she began playing classical piano at age 5. While pursuing a degree in computer science at Stanford University, Teng joined the Stanford Harmonics, a student-run a cappella group.^[3] She began recording her compositions at the studios in Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), intending to distribute her music on campus. Many of these recordings were eventually released in her debut album Waking Hour. After graduating in 2000, Teng worked as a software engineer for Cisco Systems in San Jose, but she continued to write music and perform in her free time. In 2002, Teng signed with Virt Records and quit Cisco Systems to focus on her musical career.

Teng's first major national exposure was on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition in January 2003, followed shortly thereafter by CBS's Late Show with David Letterman. She has since made appearances on the CBS Saturday Early Show, CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown and The Wayne Brady Show, and opened concerts for Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, India.Arie, Brandi Carlile, Sarah Harmer and Marc Cohn. Her first album, Waking Hour, peaked at #5 on the Amazon.com bestseller list; her second album, Warm Strangers, reached as high as #2.^[4][5] In 2006, Teng signed with Zoë/Rounder.^[6]

Teng performing at Joe's Pub in 2007.

From December 2006 to early 2007, she toured extensively in the United States to promote the release of her third album, Dreaming Through the Noise. Teng co-headlined with Duncan Sheik and opened for Madeleine Peyroux. She began the Green Caravan Tour in April 2007, accompanied by cellist Marika Hughes, violinist Dina Maccabee, and percussionist Alex Wong, along with opening acts such as David Berkeley and Jenny Owen Youngs. In 2008, she relocated from California to New York City, and performed in Central Park on Earth Day at the Green Apple Festival.

Her fourth album, Inland Territory, won the ninth annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop vote for best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album.^[7]

In 2010, Teng announced to her fans that she had been accepted into the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. Through the program, she will receive an MBA from the Ross School of Business and an MS from the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Teng continues to perform and compose music, although she does not tour as frequently as she had before enrolling.

Cultural influence on music[link]

Although nearly all of Teng's recordings are in English, Warm Strangers features a hidden cover of "Green Island Serenade," a 1950's Taiwanese classic by Teresa Teng performed in Mandarin Chinese. Teng has also stated live that the lyrics to "Grandmother Song" from Inland Territory are nearly a verbatim translation of a lecture Teng received from her Mandarin-speaking grandmother, voicing her disapproval of Teng's career choice.

Discography[link]

• 2001: Waking Hour – self-produced
• 2002: Waking Hour – Virt Records
• 2004: Warm Strangers – Virt Records
• 2006: Dreaming Through the Noise – Zoë/Rounder
• 2009: Inland Territory – Zoë/Rounder
• 2009: The Moment Always Vanishing – self-produced live album; recorded at Joe's Pub in New York City on December 20, 2009

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Vienna Teng

• "Vienna Teng Biography". Virt Records. Archived from the original on March 22, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060322201137/http://www.virtrecords.com/viennateng/bio.html. 
• Biography at official website
• Vienna Teng's official YouTube channel
• Vienna Teng's Twitter page
• v1.ViennaTeng.com – Vienna Teng's first website (2000–2004)
• WarmStrangers.com-Unofficial fansite with song anecdotes, a list of unreleased tracks, and a database of live performances.
• Vienna Teng collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Paradigm interview – August 2007 interview with Vienna Teng. Located under "Music."
• Collectedsounds.com – Interview in which Vienna Teng discusses her musical history and influences.
• Vienna Teng interview (September 2007) with asiaXpress.com
• Kaplan, Shari (November 27, 2002). "Saratoga Style: Talented local musician plays at Blue Rock Shoot". Saratoga News (Saratoga, California). http://www.community-newspapers.com/archives/saratoganews/20021127/sn-style1.shtml. 

Prof. dr. Jan Brinkhuis (born 1952, Veenendaal) is Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam. He obtained his PhD in 1981 with the disseration "Embedding Problems and Galois Modules". In mathematical optimization, he and Vladimir Tikhomirov wrote 'Optimization: Insights and Applications'.

Books[link]

Optimization: Insights and Applications, Jan Brinkhuis and Vladimir Tikhomirov: 2005, Princeton University Press

References[link]

• (Dutch) Biography
• Publications

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Alain Delon
Delon in 2011
Born	Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (1935-11-08) 8 November 1935 (age 76) Sceaux, France
Citizenship	French, Swiss (since 1999)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–present
Spouse	Nathalie Barthélemy (m. 1964-69)
Partner	Romy Schneider (1959-63) Mireille Darc (1968-82) Rosalie van Breemen (1987-2002)
Children	Christian Aaron Boulogne, born on (1962-08-11) 11 August 1962 (age 49) Anthony Delon, born on (1964-09-30) 30 September 1964 (age 47) Anouchka Delon, born on (1990-11-25) 25 November 1990 (age 21) Alain Delon Jr., born on (1994-03-18) 18 March 1994 (age 18)
Website
alaindelon.ch

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ dəlɔ̃]; born 8 November 1935) is a French-Swiss actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot. Over the course of his career, Delon has worked with many well-known directors, including Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and Louis Malle.

Delon acquired Swiss citizenship on September 23, 1999, and the company managing products sold under his name is based in Geneva. He is a citizen of the community of Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva.

Early life[link]

Delon was born in Sceaux, Seine (now Hauts-de-Seine), Île-de-France, a suburb of Paris. His parents, Édith (née Arnold) and Fabien Delon, divorced when Delon was four.^[1] Both remarried, and Delon has a half-sister and two half-brothers. He attended a Roman Catholic^[2] boarding school, the first of several schools from which he was expelled because of unruly behavior. Teachers once tried to convince him to enter the priesthood because of his aptitude in religious studies.

At 14, Delon left school, and worked for a brief time at his stepfather's butcher shop. He enlisted in the French Navy three years later, and in 1953/54 he served as a fusilier marin in the First Indochina War. Delon has said that out of his four years of military service he spent 11 months in prison for being "undisciplined". In 1956, after being dishonorably discharged from the military, he returned to France. He didn't have any money, and got by on whatever employment he could find. He spent time working as a waiter, a porter, a secretary and a sales clerk. During this time he became friends with the actress Brigitte Auber, and joined her on a trip to the Cannes Film Festival, where his film career would begin.

Career[link]

At Cannes, Delon was seen by a talent scout for David O. Selznick. After a screen test Selznick offered him a contract, provided he learned English. Delon returned to Paris to study the language, but when he met French director Yves Allégret, he was convinced that he should stay in France to begin his career. Selznick allowed Delon to cancel his contract,^{[citation needed]} and Allégret gave him his debut in the film Quand la Femme s'en Mêle (When the Woman Butts In). Delon then appeared in the film Faibles Femmes (Women Are Weak/Three Murderesses). This was also the very first of his films to be seen in America, where it became a huge success.

In 1960, Delon appeared in René Clément's Purple Noon, which was based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. He played protagonist Tom Ripley to critical acclaim; Highsmith herself was also a fan of his portrayal.^[3] He then appeared in Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. Critic Bosley Crowther of the New York Times said Delon's work was : "touchingly pliant and expressive." John Beaufort in the Christian Science Monitor said:

"Rocco's heartbroken steadfastness furnishes the film with the foremost of its ironic tragedies ... [I]ts believability rests finally on Mr. Delon's compelling performance."

Delon made his stage debut in 1961 in John Ford’s play Tis Pity She’s a Whore alongside Romy Schneider in Paris. Visconti directed the production. Delon would work with him again for Il Gattopardo (The Leopard). Delon also worked with Jean-Pierre Melville, who directed him in Un Flic, Le Cercle Rouge, and Le Samouraï.

In 1964, the Cinémathèque Française held a showcase of Delon's films and Delon started a production company, Delbeau Production, with Georges Beaume. They produced a film called L’insoumis, which had to be re-edited because of legal issues. Delon then started his own production company, Adel, and starred in the company’s first film, Jeff. Delon followed the success of the film with Borsalino, which became one of France’s highest grossing films of the time. In 1973, he made a duet with the French pop singer Dalida on "Paroles, paroles". He also played Johnston McCulley's popular masked hero in 1975's Zorro. In 1976, Delon starred in Monsieur Klein, which won him the César awards (French equivalent of Oscars).

Alain Delon at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

He was awarded the Best Actor César Award for his role in Bertrand Blier's Notre histoire (1984), and portrayed the aristocratic dandy Baron de Charlus in a film adaptation of Marcel Proust's novel Swann in Love in the same year. Then followed a string of box office failures in the late 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the failure of Patrice Leconte's Une chance sur deux. Delon announced his decision to give up acting in 1997, although he still occasionally accepts roles.

In 1990, he worked with auteur Jean-Luc Godard, on Nouvelle vague, in which he played twins. In 2003, the Walter Reade Theater showed a series of Delon's films under the aegis, Man in the Shadows: The Films of Alain Delon.

Products[link]

Since the formation of a perfume label in his name, Delon has had a variety of products sold under his name including wristwatches, clothing, eyewear, stationery and cigarettes.^[4]

Delon's sunglasses brand became particularly popular in Hong Kong after actor Chow Yun-fat wore them in the 1986 crime film A Better Tomorrow (as well as two sequels). Delon reportedly wrote a letter thanking Chow for helping the sunglasses sell out in the region.^[5] The film's director John Woo has acknowledged Delon as one of his idols and wrote a short essay on Le Samourai as well as Le Cercle Rouge for the Criterion Collection DVD releases.^[6]

Relationships[link]

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On 20 March 1959, Delon was engaged to actress Romy Schneider, whom he met when they co-starred in the film Christine (1958). During their relationship, he had an affair with German actress, singer and model Nico. On 11 August 1962, Nico gave birth to a son, Christian Aaron "Ari", fathered by Delon. The child was raised mostly by Delon's parents. Nico died in 1988, from a bicycling accident.

In December 1963, Schneider and Delon decided to break the engagement. On 13 August 1964, Delon married Nathalie Barthélemy. Their son, Anthony Delon, was born in September. The couple divorced on 14 February 1969.

In 1968, during the shooting of the film Jeff, he met French actress Mireille Darc with whom he started a 15-year relationship, lasting until 1982.

In 1987, Delon met Dutch model Rosalie van Breemen on the shooting of the video clip for his song "Comme au cinéma" and started a relationship. They had two children: Anouschka (25 November 1990) and Alain-Fabien (18 March 1994). The relationship ended in October 2002.

Alain Delon lives in Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland with his two youngest children.

Honours[link]

• At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Honorary Golden Bear.^[7]
• At the 60th Cannes Film Festival, he presented the Best Actress Award to South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon for her role in Lee Chang Dong's Secret Sunshine. She became the first South Korean to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
• At the 2008 César Awards on February 22, 2008, he presented the César Award for Best Actress to Marion Cotillard, who two days later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for La Vie En Rose.
• Delon appears on the cover of the 1986 album The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths.
• He was made Officier (Officer) of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1995.^[8]
• He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur on 21 February 1991.^[9] He was promoted to Officier (Officer) in 2005.^[9]

Filmography[link]

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See also[link]

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• List of Swiss people

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alain Delon

• alaindelon.ch, his official website
• Alain Delon at the Internet Movie Database

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Francis Lalanne

Francis Lalanne (born Francis-José Lalanne on 8 August 1958 in Anglet) is a French singer, songwriter and poet. He is the brother of composer Jean-Félix Lalanne and film director René Manzor.

Free Art[link]

He opposed the HADOPI law^[1] in 2009 and has supported the French free software community saying that the purpose of art is not to make money but conscience, and it is the duty of any author to promote the free dissemination of this conscience^[2]. He wrote the book « Révoltons-nous », published on August 2011 under the free art license^[3].

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1979: Rentre chez toi
• 1980: Francis Lalanne
• 1981: Toi mon vieux copain
• 1982: Celle qui m'a emmené
• 1984: Amis d'en France
• 1985: Coup de foudre
• 1986: Mai 86
• 1988: De Corazón
• 1990: Avec toi
• 1992: Tendresses
• 1994: Les Inédits
• 1996: Face cachée
• 2000: Sans papiers
• 2003: D'une vie à l'autre
• 2005: Reptile
• 2009: Ouvrir son cœur
• 2010: Blaïte music

Live albums[link]

• 1983: Lalanne à Pantin
• 1993: Zénith 93
• 2006: Au Casino de Paris

Compilations[link]

• 1995: Flash-Back
• 2007: Best of

Publications[link]

• 1986: Ajedhora, Flammarion.
• 1993: Le Roman d'Arcanie, Les Belles Lettres.
• 1994: Les Carnets de Lucifer, Les Belles Lettres.
• 1995: Le Journal de Joseph, Éditions du Rocher.
• 1997: D'Amour et de Mots, Les Belles Lettres. Tristan Tzara prize in 1997.
• 1999: Éliade ou l'Idéale, Les Belles Lettres.
• 2000: Le Petit Livre de l'Enfant, Éditions du Rocher, with co-author Stella Sulak.
• 2003: Drac. ou le Soliloque du Vampire, Les Belles Lettres.
• 2004: Les Carnets de Lucifer – Mon Journal Intime, Les Belles Lettres.
• 2006: Skizogrammes, Pantoums, Éditions Bibliophane.
• 2008: Mère Patrie, Planète Mère, Éditions Pascal Petiot. Lauriers Verts award at La Forêt des Livres in 2008.
• 2009: La bataille Hadopi, In Libro Veritas (group of authors)^[1].
• 2009: Mise en Demeure à Monsieur le Président de la République Française, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch Éditeur.
• 2011: Révoltons-nous, Éditions In Libro Veritas^[3].

Filmography[link]

Cinéma

• 1995: Marie de Nazareth by Jean Delannoy
• 2008: Astérix at the Olympic Games, by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann
• 2008: Disco, by Fabien Onteniente
• 2010: Orso - La Marche de l'Enfant Roi, by Magà Ettori: Senator Vasco

As a voice actor

• 1996: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: French voice of Quasimodo
• 2002: The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: French voice of Quasimodo

References[link]

• Dominique Lacout, Francis Lalanne, Éditions du Rocher, 1993. ISBN 978-2-268-01596-5

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Francis Lalanne

Related Articles[link]

• Music of France
• Chanson française

External links[link]

• Francis Lalanne at the Internet Movie Database
• Francis Lalanne on Myspace

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