Word: offenbacher
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...first gave the Pudding a national reputation was "Dido and Aeneas" presented in 1882. It was shown in the usual tradition, complete with exploding altars and discourses on chastity, but it did have an excellent book, garnished with music described by Samuel Eliot Morison '08 as "a potpourri of Offenbach, Suppe, Bizet, Meyerbeer, and Wagner...
Next day the Arbeiterzeitung review pleaded "Do Kiss Me, Kate." The Wochenpresse added "Kiss Me Very Long, Kate." Vienna's most eminent literary critic, Oskar Maurus Fontana, proclaimed on the radio: "Not since Offenbach . . . has Vienna seen such an inspired foreign product." Cole Porter was hailed as the "Lehar of America," and at week's end Kate was playing to packed houses at prices 25% above the Volksoper norm...
Poised and confident as she had been at Cortina, Tenley skated out to repeat her Olympic routine. In her gold wool jersey, she danced across the ice to the music of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Satisfied with her performance, she said: "If that doesn...
...Tenley Albright thrives on trouble. She started skating in the first place to speed her recovery from childhood polio. Poised and sure in her dark rose sweater, red flowers bright against her bobbed blonde hair, she swung into her free-skating routine. Gliding to the beat of a bright Offenbach medley, she picked up speed and leaped into a stag (a twisting jump in which the skater takes off backwards, turns, and sails forward, back arched and trailing leg extended...
...once the show was over and the pressure was off, Hurok changed his tune. He has ideas for other shows, e.g., digging out the popular light operas of Offenbach and Cimarosa. With NBC already planning another Hurok Spectacular, Hurok is talking of doing a show once a month or every two months "to spread the gospel of good music." The size of the Festival audience had the impresario talking fortissimo e molto appassionato: "The show went over with such a bang, it created such a revolution, that it proved to everybody that the American people are not morons. They...