Word: offenbacher
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Last year's opera choice, Menotti's The Consul, was most timely in view of recent events in Hungary. No less timely was this year's selection, in view of the announcement that the U.S. will attempt three lunar explorations this fall: Jacques Offenbach's musical fantasy, The Voyage to the Moon (1875). This was the American premiere of the work, and the first production of the newly-formed Boston repertory company, The Opera Group. The work was given in a brilliant English adaptation, complete with two full-blown ballets (on the front and back of the moon...
...concert included music by Brahms, Offenbach, Wagner and Gershwin. But the most popular numbers of the evening were those by Leroy Anderson '29, former conductor of the Harvard Band: "Fiddle-Faddle," a medley of Harvard songs entitled "Harvard Fantasy," and Anderson's arrangement of George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President...
GAITE PARISIENNE (Offenbach): Arthur Fiedler conducting Boston Pops...
...OFFENBACH : "What a master of all sorts of cleaning music! And how considerate a composer! Tales of Hoffmann is studded with injunctions like 'Je commence,' 'Silence,' 'Attention,' or 'Voilà,' handy indications that one is about to switch jobs, which allow a moment to put away the broom and get out the dustpan. Yet how haphazardly is his cleaning music placed...
Male Lead: Frederick Brozer, as Figaro in Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (Harvard Opera Guild); Ronald Gerbrands, as Basilio in "Barber of Seville"; Harold Scott, as Jupiter in Offenbach's "Orpheus in Hades" (Lowell...