Word: offenbacher
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...cello is the big, booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular...
...program follows: Programme Choruses for Freemasons Mozart Soloist: J. L. Morrisson '38 Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale...
...unusual group of artists have recently formed an organization called the Wagnerian Singers and are at present engaged in touring the country. They will come to Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon with a program containing six Wagner selections and numbers by Mozart, Strauss, Weber, Gounod, and Offenbach. Richard Hageman is the conductor of the group which includes the wellknown basso, Alexander Kipnis...
Rewards to print lovers for a long dawdle through seven of the Museum's big, bright exhibition rooms began with a curiosity: a faded title page to a Suite d'Airs Connus, par Mozart, printed in Offenbach, Germany, in 1799 and decorated with one of the earliest known lithographs. Among great prints and notable prints thereafter encountered...
...were I not convinced that such trifling is morally unjustifiable. As to Sir Arthur's scores, they form an easy introduction to dramatic music and picturesque or topical orchestration for perfect novices; but as I had learned it all from Meyerbeer . . . and was pretty well tired of Offenbach before Trial By Jury was born, there was no musical novelty in the affair...