Word: offenbach
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...organization now assembled at the Al Jolson Theatre, Manhattan, is perhaps the youngest of the great theatrical and musical troupes of the world. Puffed to the limit and beloved by "Barnum" Gest, it has pardonably fallen just a trifle short of expectations. The production of La Perichole, with the Offenbach score and with what amounted to an entire re-writing of the Meilhac-Halevy libretto by Director Dantchenko himself, proved to be an unadulterated source of enjoyment to all except strict operatic purists. The setting, which depicted a market place in ancient Lima, Peru, was in the best Russian tradition...
...Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian composer, Reinhold Gliere; Carmencita and the Soldier, with the Bizet music for Carmen, a wholly new libretto drawn directly from Merimee's story by the Russian poet, Constantin Lipskerpff; Offenbach's La Perichole; a triple bill from Pushkin entitled Love and Death...
...Wagner march of the Knights from Parsifal; Liszt, Second Hungarian Rhapsody; Sibelius, Finlandia; Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz; Rossini, overture to William Tell; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Song of India; Rachmaninoff, C Sharp Minor Prelude; Handel, Largo; Rubinstein, Kammenoi Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak, Humoresque, Massenet, Aragonaise from Le Cid; Mascagni, intermezzo from Cavaleria; Paderewski, Minuet, Volga Boat Song; Mendelssohn, Spring Song; Schumann Traeumere; Tchaikovsky, Humoresque; Donizetti, sextet from Lucia; Saint-Saens, "The Swan; Goldman...
...Massenet 6. Tarantelle Tacchia 7. Magic Fire Music Wagner 8. Songs by University Glee Club (a) Now is the Month of Maving Morley (b) Chanson a Boire Poulene (c) Nocturine Cul (d) Sir Eglamore English Folk Song (e) March of the Peers Sullivan 9. Bacchanale Saint-Sains 10. Barcarolle Offenbach 11. Veritas Dinsmore
...Music, written by Conductor Ignatz Waghalter, smacks more of Puccini than of Sullivan, Offenbach or Johann Strauss. A sudden transition or two, a waltz emerging from a cantilena, a trio for three men in the first act, a machine-made quartet in the second-these were enlivening...