Dukas

The Dukas 1 well resumed drilling in 9-1/2' hole at 8am on 31 July and is drilling ahead.

A yearlong project sponsored by TechnoServe and Moody's foundation is set to train 1,000 duka owners across the country in finance and business management skills.

First was a short militant piece, Fanfare from 'La PEari,' by French composer Paul Dukas. This was followed by Richard Strauss's Suite in B flat major for 13 Instruments, Opus 4, a romantic set of four movements.

Dukas Public Relations, an award-winning agency that develops and implements high-impact media coverage for financial and professional services firms, has recently hired Randy Orndorf as its new Vice President.

TOMORROW City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, clarinet Martin Frost, conductor Edward Gardner - Dukas, Mozart, Berlioz: Birmingham Symphony Hall, 7pm.

Book 1 of the 'Spanish Gatekeeper', Empire of the Ulfair (9780983192909, $11.95) by Bernard Dukas, was a 2011 Compton Crook Award Finalist for best new novel and blends science fiction, fantasy and adventure in the story set in 1900 and telling of Peter de Soto, an English schoolboy, and his cousin, Bonifacia Espasande, who uncover a family heirloom with powers to lure them off-world into a universe filled with strange creatures and challenges.

Neil Bernard Dukas (California State University-Dominguez Hills), A Pocket Guide to the Battle of Nu'Uana 7795, an illustrated Hawaiian military history; 90 pages; Mutual Publishing, May 2010; $9.95 paperback.

It was written originally by Dukas in 1897 based on a German poem by Goethe.

(6.40pm) Semyon Bychkov conducts as the National Youth Orchestra performs two 19th-century French masterworks - Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

BBC Proms 2010 (6.40pm) Semyon Bychkov conducts as the National Youth Orchestra performs two 19th-century French masterworks - Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

"For humans, our entire culture is based on social learning so it is very natural for us to gain valuable knowledge from one another, but most animals are completely on their own," said Reuven Dukas, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, who co-authored the study along with graduate student Sachin Sarin.

He was vivacious, competent and always in control of a piece which always seems reminiscent of Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, which appeared around the same time.

From Opera Bastille in Paris comes another French rarity in Dukas's 1907 take on the Bluebeard legend.

WESTBORO - Yesterday afternoon's opening concert of Symphony Pro Musica's 25th season was called "Celebrating French Flair," and, accurately enough, presented music by Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saens and Hector Berlioz.

The two works on the program with a Halloween theme are "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas and "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," a tone poem by Richard Strauss.