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14 unusual facts about Coll


Ben van Oosten

Whether by geographical influence or artistic choice, he gravitated toward the French Romantic Organ school of the 19th century that had its origins in the new symphonic organs of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

Charles Tournemire

Of ten 78-rpm discs which Tournemire made in 1930, playing the Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ of Sainte-Clotilde (Polydor 561047, 561048, 566057, 566058, 566059), five contain Franck compositions.

D'espairsRay

Soon after, they released their first full-length album, Coll:set.

In 2006, they went international with the European release of Coll:set in January.

Grande Pièce Symphonique

The magnificent sound of pipe organ built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll at Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, for which he was appointed as the first organist in 1859, encouraged him to resume his composition.

Günther Kaunzinger

The dispositions of new organs, which he supervised, are inspired by the tradition of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

Jesus Church, Valby

On the gallery stands the organ built by the famous French organbuilder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély

He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs.

Marcel Dupré

His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when Marcel was 14 years old.

Meloe brevicollis

In 2010, 40 beetles were found on four sites on the Hebridean island of Coll.

Organ and organists of Chester Cathedral

The organ was rebuilt and enlarged by Whiteley Bros. of Chester in 1876, to include harmonic flutes and reeds by Cavaillé-Coll.

Pierre Labric

The majority of his recordings were made at Saint-Ouen in Rouen with its famous organ from 1890 by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (although Labric was never titular organist at this church).

Saint-Étienne, Lille

It has been modified four times (by Cavaillé-Coll in 1899 then by Mutin in 1901) and now has 39 jeux, 3 keyboards and pedals.

Symphony

By the end of the 19th century, some French organists (e.g., Charles-Marie Widor and his students Charles Tournemire and Louis Vierne) named some of their organ compositions symphony: Their instruments (many built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll) allowed an orchestral approach (Kaye 2001; Smith 2001; Thomson 2001).


Al-Thager Model School

Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, said that in the 1960s and 1970s Al-Thager "prided itself on its modern curicculum" and that it was the only Saudi school that "could even begin to compare itself to a place like" Brummana High School in Brummana, Lebanon.

Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau

Je suis aussi ..., preface by Dominique Barbéris, Paris: L'Harmattan (Coll. Poètes des cinq continents), 2009.

Clachan, Kintyre

Once the home of Coll McAlester, who led the first large settlement of highlanders in North Carolina at Cross Creek in the Cape Fear River valley in 1739, and later the home of Sir William Mackinnon, the house is now a self-catering residence.

Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa

Commissioners Seyyid Abdulai, Abdoulaye Bathily, Mary Chinery-Hesse, Awa Coll-Seck, Haile Debas, Richard G.A. Feachem, Eveline Herfkens, Omar Kabbaj, Milly Katana, Madeleine Mukamabano, Benjamin Nzimbi, Joy Phumaphi, Peter Piot, Paulo Teixeira, Bassary Touré, and Alan Whiteside.

Coun Douly Rankin

He was born at Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll, the son of Neil Rankin, the resident piper at the castle, and Catherine Maclean.

Derveni krater

Bernard Holtzmann and Alain Pasquier, Histoire de l'art antique : l'art grec, Documentation française, coll.

Dhimay

At special occasions even the shawm musicians of the Kapali (hon.) or Jugi (coll.), a caste of tailors and professional musicians, may be called.

Gilbert Rist

(with Majid Rahnema and Gustavo Esteva), Le Nord perdu, Repères pour l’après-développement, coll.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

In January 1936 Ramón Torres and Carlos Coll set a record with their flight from Barcelona to Agadir, Morocco in the two seat GP-2.

John Baird Simpson

He carried out a lot of the early earliest mapping of the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, including the Lewisian of Coll and Tiree, the Mesozoic sediments and Tertiary lavas of Morvern and Ardnamurchan, and the Moine Schists of Ardnamurchan, Sunart and South Morar.

Jordi Ausàs i Coll

Jordi Ausàs i Coll (born 3 March 1960 in La Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell) Is a Catalan politician, Mayor of La Seu d'Urgell from 2003 to 2008 and Minister of Governance and Public Administration of Catalonia in the José Montilla government (2008–2010).

MV Rhum

Her new Irish owner operates Rhum and Coll between Burtonport and Arranmore in County Donegal.

Oecumenius

Otto Bardenhewer (Kirchenlexikon, IX, 1905, coll. 706-10) is doubtful about it; Ehrhard (in Krumbacher's "Byzantin. Litter.", 132) says: "The name Oecumenius represents in the present state of investigation a riddle that can be solved only by thorough critical study of the manuscripts in connexion with the whole question of the Catenae."

Sant Joan de les Abadesses

It seems that the area was not very much Romanized, despite the fact that a branch of the Via Augusta went up the valley to the Coll d'Ares.

Signal-averaged electrocardiogram

PMID 8522703 - American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Document (1996): Signal-averaged Electrocardiography, J Am Coll Cardiol.

The Book of Three

The youth Taran lives at Caer Dallben with his guardians, the ancient enchanter Dallben and the farmer and retired soldier Coll.

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

They then passed into the highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides, including Skye, Coll, and Mull.

The Scions of Shannara

However, what Par and Coll are doing is illegal under the law of the Federation because magic is supposedly the cause for various problems that are occurring in the Four Lands.

Vall de Boí

Nine churches were included in the World Heritage Site: Sant Climent and Santa Maria in Taüll, Sant Feliu in Barruera, Sant Joan in Boí, Santa Eulàlia in Erill la Vall, Santa Maria de l'Assumpció de Cóll, Santa Maria de Cardet, la Nativitat de la Mare de Déu in Durro, and the hermitage of Sant Quirc near Durro.