Pastor offers Offenbach recital Oct 3, 2008
The Rev. Donald Fox is a fan of French composer Jacques Offenbach. If you are, too, then you ll want to mark Sunday on your calendar. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
TEMPO: Sierra Vista Symphonys 2008-2009 inaugural concert Aug 29, 2008
It is one of the symphony s most energetic escapes into the vivid storytelling of such notable composers as Felix Mendelssohn, Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Jacques Offenbach, Edvard Grieg, William Walton and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that no one will want to shrug off. Coincidentally, this year marks the centennial of the death of Rimsky-Korsakov, and the 25th commemoration of William Walton s passing. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Go hear the Concert Band! Jul 15, 2008
Unless you hang around me, it s not often that you hear the name of the famous French composer, Jacques Offenbach, linked with the U.S. Armed Forces. But this Wednesday night at the La Crosse Concert Band s concert at Riverside Park, just two days after the French national holiday of Bastille Day, we ll get to hear the famous overture from Offenbach s most famous comic opera, Orpheus in the Underworld. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Let the concert series begin Jun 11, 2008
Selections will include "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" by John Williams, "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Irving Berlin, the circus march "Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fucik, a rollicking arrangement of "When the Saints Go Marching In," and the famous "Can Can" by Jacques Offenbach. The band, founded in 1992 by its current director, Dr. Jonathan Korzun, director of Bands at SMC, is comprised area band directors, community members, and SMC students. (Niles Star, MI)
George Romero: More 'Dead' from a master of the genre Feb 11, 2008
Romero was raised in the New York City borough of the Bronx, a horror-comic fan and self-described "film freak" who would ride the subway into Manhattan to rent the reels of "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951), an outsized Moira Shearer musical based on the Jacques Offenbach opera. On those rare occasions when the movie wasn't available, he was told that the only other person who took it out was around his age. (International Herald Tribune)
Symphony by the Sea Nov 20, 2007
Concluding the first half of the program will be the "Berceuse and Finale" from Stravinsky's "Firebird" followed by "Orpheus In The Underworld Overture" by Jacques Offenbach. This overture features the famous "Can Can.". (Daily Triplicate)
Jacques Offenbach, Champs-Elysee Nov 4, 2007
Brief biography of Jacques Offenbach - his life, operettas and other works ... Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of German origin, was one of the two outstanding composers in popular music of the 19th-century, the other one was Johann Strauss Junior. (Suite101.com)
Pastor to honor composer at recital Sep 10, 2007
What s even more unusual, the recital is devoted to the music of French composer Jacques Offenbach, and Fox has created skits to tell the story of the composer and his music. The idea for the Sunday, Sept. 16, recital was born with the pastor s wish to educate everyone about the real composer of the Marines Hymn. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Boston Midsummer Opera explores 'two faces' of Offenbach Jul 27, 2007
As a composer, Jacques Offenbach merged two contrasting impulses. He's renowned, on one hand, for his witty and sharply satirical operettas, which embody the sophistication of "light music." On the other hand, his best-known work is "Hoffmann," a dark, dramatic, full-scale opera that's unlike anything else in his catalog. (Boston Globe)
Student musicians to perform concert Jun 15, 2007
Rozsnyai will perform two arias ---- the "Doll Song" from "Tales of Hoffman" by Jacques Offenbach and "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein. Shaw will perform Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. (North County Times)
Summer festival warms up May 24, 2007
It's an operetta by Jacques Offenbach, of can-can fame. Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times has called the work ``irresistibly charming. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Joseph Cornell retrospective stresses the tensions between capture and release Apr 29, 2007
See, for example, "Pantry Ballet ( for Jacques Offenbach )," a horizontal box occupied by a lineup of little plastic lobsters, each with a gauze tutu wrapped around its tail. Often it is humor that saves works that would otherwise be viewed as absurdly sentimental. (Boston Globe)
National Ballet founder dies at 85 Feb 20, 2007
She relied on the classics, put Jacques Offenbach in the repertoire at least partly because she thought his cancan music would draw in men who wouldn't normally attend the ballet, called upon her contemporaries (Antony Tudor and John Cranko) and even created ballets herself (Cinderella and the venerable The Nutcracker). In 1973, she and Mr. Bruhn collaborated on the National Ballet's current production of Les Sylphides. (Globe and Mail)
