Gounod
Americannoun
noun
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Great Performances In the new episode “New York City Ballet in Paris” the company performs an all-Balanchine program that includes the Walpurgisnacht Ballet and La Valse, set to music by Charles Gounod and Maurice Ravel.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2017
The junior orchestra opened the program, and then the main group played, intently working its way through Schubert, Gounod, and Bizet.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015
The works by Gounod on this CD are lumbering curiosities, but the depth and range of the pedal piano’s sound in the contrapuntal passages are fascinating.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2014
In his little comedy Saint-Saëns recalls the conflict between voluptuous Philistines and sanctimonious Hebrews in his grand opera Samson et Dalila, and Gounod in La colombe likewise parodies his own more pompous Faust.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013
French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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