"this event. Early promos for the album had the title track named ""Cousteau on the Beach"", but was renamed later, because Jacques-Yves Cousteau thought beaches are an environmental disaster. ""Calypso Part 1"" contains samples previously heard in the tracks ""Zoolookologie"" and ""Moon Machine"", the former appearing on his 1984 album ""Zoolook"", and the latter as the B-side to the single ""Fourth Rendez-Vous"" and later appearing on the compilation album ""Images"". The last track, ""En Attendant Cousteau"", was also used in the soundtrack to a 1991 documentary entitled ""Palawan : Le dernier refuge"" by oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. All tracks composed by"
"Canada, stopping at the Niagara Falls. In Montreal, he was invited to dine at the Beaver Club. At Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue he wrote one of his most famous works, the ""Canadian Boat Song"". He sailed back to Britain from Nova Scotia aboard a Royal Navy ship arriving home in November 1804. It was after this trip that he published his book ""Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems"", which featured a paean to the historic Cohoes Falls called ""Lines Written at the Cohos , or Falls of the Mohawk River, among other famous verses. A repeated theme in his writing on the United States"
"Il était un petit navire ""Il était un petit navire"" (English: ""There was a little ship"") is a traditional French song that is now considered a children's song, despite its macabre tone. The song tells the story of a young shipwrecked sailor who is about to be eaten by the other sailors. They discuss how to cook the man and what sauce to use. He then prays to the Virgin Mary and is saved by a miracle. This song might refer to the famous wreck of the Medusa, immortalised in the painting ""The Raft of the Medusa"" by Théodore Géricault."
"Il était un petit navire ""Il était un petit navire"" (English: ""There was a little ship"") is a traditional French song that is now considered a children's song, despite its macabre tone. The song tells the story of a young shipwrecked sailor who is about to be eaten by the other sailors. They discuss how to cook the man and what sauce to use. He then prays to the Virgin Mary and is saved by a miracle. This song might refer to the famous wreck of the Medusa, immortalised in the painting ""The Raft of the Medusa"" by Théodore Géricault."
"16th, the skipper sent his last radio message in which he reported that he was having a good trip. He was sailing at the head of the race, among the leaders, but was lost at sea with his boat. A song """" was written by Serge Gainsbourg in French and interpreted by Alain Chamfort, in tribute to the trimaran and its skipper. The song was released as a single on 15 September 1979, and on the album """" later the same year. It is one of Alain Chamfort’s greatest successes. The song also boosted the fame of the trimaran. Manureva"
"Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater world research in a series of books, perhaps the most successful being his first book, """", published in 1953. Cousteau also directed films, most notably the documentary adaptation of the book, ""The Silent World"", which won a Palme d'or at the 1956 Cannes Film"
"The Lowestoft Boat ""The Lowestoft Boat"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". The song is sub-titled """"A Chanty"""" and, like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but it was later published to be sung with piano accompaniment. Kipling prefaced the poem with the words """"East Coast Patrols"
"Marvin perform in less than ideal conditions. Inclement weather had threatened to break the stage from its moorings, putting paid to the original plan to float the stage across the Royal Victoria Dock. Wind speeds were so high that television cameras were blown over. On the second evening the audience, which included Diana, Princess of Wales, was soaked by rain and wind. In 1990 Jarre released ""En Attendant Cousteau"" (Waiting for Cousteau), inspired by the French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. On Bastille Day 1990 he performed a concert at La Défense in Paris, attended by a record-breaking audience of about two"
"The Amphitrite ""The Amphitrite"" (or sometimes called “The Skippers Erudition"" to distinguish it from other poems of the same or similar names) is a Geordie folk song written in the 19th century by Robert Gilchrist, in a style deriving from music hall. This song tells the tale of a coal keel (or keel boat) ""The Amphitrite"" was the name of a Tyne coal carrying keelboat. The song, written by Robert Gilchrist tells of the ship and its crew. The comments made in the 1891 edition of Allan’s Tyneside Songs (marked July 30, 1829 E G), is “The following production records"
"same ideas in his poem ""Le bateau ivre"" (""The Drunken Boat""). This hundred-line poem tells the tale of a boat that breaks free of human society when its handlers are killed by ""Redskins"" (""Peaux-Rouges""). At first thinking that it is drifting where it pleases, the boat soon realizes that it is being guided by and to the ""poem of the sea"". It sees visions both magnificent (""the awakening blue and yellow of singing phosphorescence"", """"l'éveil jaune et bleu des phosphores chanteurs"""") and disgusting (""nets where in the reeds an entire Leviathan was rotting"" """"nasses / Où pourrit dans les joncs"
"Canadian Boat-Song The Canadian Boat-Song is an anonymously written poem or song which first appeared on record in the early 19th century. The question of its authorship has generated a considerable amount of literature. The poem/song first appeared on record in September 1829, in the ""Noctes Ambrosianae"" column of ""Blackwood's Magazine"". It was described as being translated into English from Gaelic, and to have originated amongst the Canadian-born voyageurs paddling the great birchbark freight canoes from the St Lawrence River out of Montreal and up the Ottawa to the height-of-land at Grand Portage in the ""pays d'en haut"" past Lake"
"Le Bateau ivre ""Le Bateau ivre"" (""The Drunken Boat"") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. Rimbaud, then aged 16, wrote the poem in the summer of 1871 at his childhood home in Charleville in Northern France. Rimbaud included the poem in a letter he sent to Paul Verlaine in September 1871 to introduce himself to Verlaine. Shortly afterwards, he joined Verlaine in Paris and became his lover. Rimbaud was inspired to write"
"Sir Simon Rattle in 2006. Das Floß der Medusa Henze wrote it as a Requiem for Che Guevara, and set it to a text by Ernst Schnabel. It tells the story of the French frigate ""Meduse"", which ran aground off the west coast of Africa in 1816, an ignominious episode in French political and maritime history, immortalised by the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. The work employs a large orchestra, a speaker, a soprano, a baritone, and choruses. In the course of a performance, the chorus members move from left side of the stage, ""the Side of"
"""Out of the Dust"". Hesse also wrote ""The Music of Dolphins"", about a girl who was raised by dolphins. ""Stowaway"", first published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster USA, is based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship ""Endeavour"" in 1768. The UK version of this book is published under the title ""Young Nick's Head"". It is in the format of a diary written by Nicholas Young, the cabin boy on the ""Endeavour"". ""Brooklyn Bridge"" is based on the true story of the family who created the teddy bear in Brooklyn"
"Das Floß der Medusa Henze wrote it as a Requiem for Che Guevara, and set it to a text by Ernst Schnabel. It tells the story of the French frigate ""Meduse"", which ran aground off the west coast of Africa in 1816, an ignominious episode in French political and maritime history, immortalised by the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. The work employs a large orchestra, a speaker, a soprano, a baritone, and choruses. In the course of a performance, the chorus members move from left side of the stage, ""the Side of the Living"", to the right"
"Kreće se lađa francuska Kreće se lađa francuska (; English: ""The French Boat is Sailing"") is a Serbian war song from the First World War, first sung in a Salonika harbor, where the Serbian army was recuperating after a long and painful withdrawal through the Albanian mountains. The author of the original text of the poem is Serbian officer colonel Branislav Milosavljević. The song was frequently performed in both France and Serbia after the war and is commonly used as a symbol of Serbian and French friendship. Silno je more duboko, (Mighty is the deep sea)<br> Duboko, plavo široko. (Deep,"
"recorded by many artists since it was written. The Cliffs of Baccalieu ""The Cliffs of Baccalieu"" is a Newfoundland song written by Jack Withers (1899-1964). Many fisherman from Newfoundland spent their summers fishing on the Labrador coast. This song depicts a tense incident for a ship coming home from Labrador on its way to either Carbonear or St. John's with its fishing crew. The ship is caught in a gale as it nears Baccalieu Island. The vessel in the song is obviously a schooner, and it would have been burdened by a full load of salt cod caught along the"
"Jean Michel Jarre. En attendant Cousteau En attendant Cousteau (English title: Waiting for Cousteau) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 11 June 1990. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as ""groundbreaking stuff"", due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced"
"looted by Portzmoguer. In retaliation, the troops of Admiral Edward Howard looted and burned Portzmoguer's mansion in the spring of 1512. His motto is said to have been «War vor ha war zouar» (Breton for ""On sea and on land""). On 10 August 1512 he went down with his ship ""Marie de la Cordelière"" in the Battle of St. Mathieu, when it blew up in a struggle with the English ship ""Regent"". Both ships were sunk. Almost all the crew were killed. The incident immediately became famous. The French poet-scholar Germain de Brie wrote a Latin poem which portrayed de"
"The Cliffs of Baccalieu ""The Cliffs of Baccalieu"" is a Newfoundland song written by Jack Withers (1899-1964). Many fisherman from Newfoundland spent their summers fishing on the Labrador coast. This song depicts a tense incident for a ship coming home from Labrador on its way to either Carbonear or St. John's with its fishing crew. The ship is caught in a gale as it nears Baccalieu Island. The vessel in the song is obviously a schooner, and it would have been burdened by a full load of salt cod caught along the Labrador coast. ""The Cliffs of Baccalieu"" has been"
"helplessness and loss. Their lining of the boat takes an up-and-down wave-like form, echoing the choppy water and making the foot of the painting a region of perilous instability. The souls to the far left and right are like grotesque bookends, enclosing the action and adding a claustrophobic touch to the whole. Delacroix wrote that his best painting of a head in this picture is that of the soul reaching with his forearm from the far side into the boat. Both Charles Le Brun’s, ""La Colère"" of 1668, and John Flaxman’s line engraving ""The Fiery Sepulchres"", appearing as plate 11"
"environment. In a Chapter entitled ""The Holy Scriptures and The Environment"" in the posthumous work ""The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus"", he is quoted as stating that ""The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists"". Jacques Cousteau has been portrayed in films: Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater"
"died by fire"") before blowing up the ship to avoid its otherwise inevitable capture by the English. In fact there is no evidence that the explosion was intentional. The Breton poet Théodore Botrel wrote a heroic poem about this version of the incident. An equally heroic version is portrayed Alan Simon in the song ""Belle Marie de la Cordelière"" in his rock opera ""Anne de Bretagne"" (2008). These ships in the French navy were named after him, using his gallicised nickname ""Primauguet"": Hervé de Portzmoguer Hervé de Portzmoguer (c1470–1512), known as ""Primauguet"", was a Breton naval commander, renowned for his"
"of the worst disasters in Ireland's history. The Dave Matthews Band song ""Black and Blue Bird"" references the star.The Philip Larkin poem ""The North Ship"", found in the collection of the same name, references the star in the section titled ""Above 80° N"", which reads:"" 'A woman has ten claws,' / Sang the drunken boatswain; / Farther than Betelgeuse, / More brilliant than Orion / Or the planets Venus and Mars, / The star flames on the ocean; / 'A woman has ten claws,' / Sang the drunken boatswain.""Humbert Wolfe wrote a poem about Betelgeuse, which was set to music"
"not choose it for its speed – it was about as fast as the ""Aquitania"" of 1914, and no larger. In 1936 it was immortalised in the song A Fine Romance performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time with the lyric ""You're just as hard to land as the Île de France"". Even though the ""Île de France"" was not the fastest vessel in the world, it briefly pioneered the quickest mail system between Europe and the United States. In July 1928, a seaplane catapult was installed at the ship's stern for trials with two"
"it had seemed to when he was younger. ""Le Bateau Ivre"" remains one of the gems of French poetry and of Rimbaud's poetic output. Vladimir Nabokov translated it to Russian in 1928. French poet-composer Léo Ferré set it to music and sang it in the album ""Ludwig-L'Imaginaire-Le Bateau ivre"" (1982). ""Le Bateau ivre"" as a wall poem in Paris. Le Bateau ivre ""Le Bateau ivre"" (""The Drunken Boat"") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery"
"En attendant Cousteau En attendant Cousteau (English title: Waiting for Cousteau) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 11 June 1990. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as ""groundbreaking stuff"", due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced for ""Concert d'Images"""
"to the Académie française, chair 17, succeeding Jean Delay. His official reception under the cupola took place on 22 June 1989, the response to his speech of reception being given by Bertrand Poirot-Delpech. After his death, he was replaced by Érik Orsenna on 28 May 1998. In June 1990, the composer Jean Michel Jarre paid homage to the commander by entitling his new album ""Waiting for Cousteau"". He also composed the music for Cousteau's documentary ""Palawan, the last refuge"". On 2 December 1990, his wife Simone Cousteau died of cancer. In June 1991, in Paris, Jacques-Yves Cousteau remarried, to Francine"
"sea, including ""The Great Wave off Kanagawa"". Music too has been inspired by the ocean, sometimes by composers who lived or worked near the shore and saw its many different aspects. Sea shanties, songs that were chanted by mariners to help them perform arduous tasks, have been woven into compositions and impressions in music have been created of calm waters, crashing waves and storms at sea. Classical sea-related music includes Richard Wagner's ""The Flying Dutchman"", Claude Debussy's ""La mer"" (1903–05), Charles Villiers Stanford's ""Songs of the Sea"" (1904) and ""Songs of the Fleet"" (1910), Edward Elgar's ""Sea Pictures"" (1899) and"
"of this ""The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie)"". Claude Dubois sings a song called ""Chasse Galerie"" on album """"Rencontre de rêves live (1992)."""" The Quebec folk band La Bottine Souriante published a song on this tale, ""Martin de la Chasse-Galerie"", in their album La Mistrine in 1994. Montreal folk metal band Blackguard use an image of the flying canoe on the cover of their 2009 album ""Profugus Mortis"". Included on the album is a song called ""The Last We Wage"", whose lyrics are based on this legend. During the Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver,"
"PT-109 (song) ""PT-109"" is a 1962 song by Jimmy Dean about the combat service of John F. Kennedy and the crew of the ""PT-109"" in World War II. The boat was famous even before Kennedy ran for office, because Kennedy and most of the crew had survived after it was rammed and cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy and the crew were rescued after several days on an uninhabited island, by two native islanders (Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana), although the islanders are not mentioned in the song. In 1961 Dean had recorded ""Big Bad John"", a song"
"the death of Jean de Ganay in 1512, de Brie sought the patronage of the French queen Anne of Brittany, which he achieved by writing what became his most famous work, ""Chordigerae navis conflagratio"" (""The Burning of the Ship Cordelière"") (1512), a Latin poem about the recent destruction of the Breton flagship ""Cordelière"" in the Battle of Saint-Mathieu between the French and English fleets. It was translated into French for Anne by Pierre Choque. The poem led to a literary controversy with the English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More, in part because it contained criticisms of English leaders, but"
"saw the submarine as a shark. ""Troy"" was inspired by ""The Adventures of Tintin"" comic ""Red Rackham's Treasure"" () in which Tintin uses a shark-like submarine as part of his search for the titular treasure. Unlike in ""Troy"", Professor Calculus' design from the comic has the driver sit upright. Cousteau first read the comic at age seven. ""Troy"", whose name derived from the idea of a ""Trojan horse"", was often described as the ""Trojan shark"". ""Troy"" attracted a great deal of international media attention. It was featured in Australia's ""Sunday Telegraph"" and ""Sun Herald"", and the United Kingdom's ""Daily Telegraph"""