Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture

[Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think Mike Gray's right.  It sounds like Lehar light, without big tunes.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael H. Gray" <mhgray@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture


> Steven Smolian wrote:
>
> > I just played it.  No worm  (nor WERM).
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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
> > > --
> > > mrichter@xxxxxxx
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> That would be Paul Lincke's Lysistrata ... several references show up in 
> http://www.dismarc.org/index.php
>
> Mike Gray