Tour de danse (4/5): Louis Armstrong, ambassador of jazz

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani Sélections Our collections
The series Dance Tour series continues. This time, you’ll be swinging! Discover the music of Louis Armstrong, the best ambassador of jazz for over 40 years. Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Dippermouth, Satchmo (short for satchel-mouth) or Pops for his wide mouth, has played a key role in music history since his death 50 years ago. It […]
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Enunciating with Jacqueline Authier-Revuz

Posted on 19 June 2025 Joëlle Légeret Sélections En ce moment
The 2020-2021 academic year has come to an end, although most of it has taken place at a distance. As is customary at the University of Lausanne, it closes with the Dies Academicus ceremony, held under the banner of uncertainty. Among the three honorary doctorates awarded on this occasion, one, proposed by the Faculty of […]
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Mystery trips: what will your destination be?

Posted on 19 June 2025 Valérie Jacquod Sélections
Whether you prefer sea or mountains, forest or countryside, north or south, round-the-world tours or local vacations… BCUL takes you on a journey this summer with our selection of novels and stories set in the four corners of the globe (and without even needing to take a PCR test!). To spice things up, we’ve mischievously […]
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Assert your style!

Posted on 19 June 2025 Evelyne Campiche Ruegg En ce moment Sélections
Due to the current exceptional situation, the fashion week and catwalk schedule has naturally been modified. Glamour, which had almost been forgotten, resurfaced at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s back-to-school time for theaters and cultural venues too. Why not take advantage of the season to assert your style? We have selected for you documents on […]
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Dante, a source of musical inspiration for 700 years

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani Sélections
Dante Alighieri certainly needs no introduction! His work La Divina Commedia has been a source of inspiration for generations of composers over the centuries. The feelings and, above all, the characters of the poem’s three canticles – Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise) – have been set to music in a wide variety of […]
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Awaken the composer in you!

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani Sélections En ce moment
Are you musically creative? Do you want to write your music with ease? Expand your compositions? To hear your creations performed with striking realism? It’s possible: (re-)discover Finale and Sibelius, two music notation software packages available at the BCUL Riponne site! After a Coronavirus “break”, they are once again available free of charge to anyone […]
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