The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

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Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

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Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
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Airliner Crash

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NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) flight video montage. Movie Number: EM-0004-02. Movie Date: 01 Dec 1984.

Description: The Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID) was a joint research project by NASA and the FAA to test a survivable aircraft impact using a remotely piloted Boeing 720 aircraft.

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Keywords: Controlled Impact Demonstration; CID; Boeing 720; Edwards Air Force Base; Rogers Dry Lake; Dryden Flight Research Facility; NASA; FAA; anti-misting kerosene; AMK; impact survivability; Fitzhugh (Fitz) Fulton

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