Word: ibert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jazz Studies Hill (First performance in the orchestral-version) *Suite from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o-the -wisps-Ballet of the Sylphs-Rakocsy March "Pirates Island" Mabel W. Daniels Recitative and Air of Azael, from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Debussy Soloist: Elizabeth Beaman, Soprano Divertissement Ibert *"Selection, "The Gondoliers" Sullivan *"Artists' Life," Waltzes Strauss *"Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet...
...studios more than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero...
Lighter and more amusing was Gold Standard, done to music by Jacques Ibert, with settings by Nicolas Remisoff who designed a park with blue trees and pink water. Ruth Page was an alluring young heroine in leg-of-mutton sleeves and a big straw hat. She danced away fleetly with an elderly merchant because his hind pockets bulged with gold. But at the end she was back with her young lover, whirling in a mad cancan. Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy...
...Cinq Gentilhommes Maudits." Barry Baur, the Fault Jannings of the French stage who plays the lead in "David Golder," which will be produced later in the year, is cast as the genial host in the coming film. The role of the heroine is portrayed by Rose Dercan. Jacques Ibert composed the music, which aids greatly in the interpretation of the story
...taken in mountainlands high above Nice and the natives are still talking about the rueful old man who rode about on a ribby white horse which he insisted on flitting each day. In his U. S. concerts Chaliapin will sing three songs written for his cinema by Jacques Ibert, pupil of Maurice Ravel...