Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture

["Michael H. Gray" <mhgray@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Smolian wrote:

> I just played it.  No worm  (nor WERM).
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture
>
>
> > Steven Smolian wrote:
> >
> > > I've a US pathe record no later than 1920. It contains  a 
> > > "Lysistrata Overture" Parts 1 & 2. No composer.  It's performed by 
> > > the Pathe Freres Orchestra.  It's probably pressed from French masters.
> > >
> > > Any idea who the composer might be?
> > >
> > > Steve Smolian
> > Of course, it may be a concert piece or an Ouverture to incidentla 
> > music or another sort of work. But if it is opera, the candidates 
> > according to the Dictionary Catalogue of Operas and Operettas would 
> > be Feautrier (1855) and P. Lincke (1874), though the latter is 
> > probably German.
> >
> > Mike
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That would be Paul Lincke's Lysistrata ... several references show up in 
http://www.dismarc.org/index.php

Mike Gray