Oh! Alberto Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires, innit 
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Nice one son.
Hhhhhhhhhover to you
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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So that's Alberto Ginastera who was born in Buenos Aires, who wrote Glosses on Themes of Pablo Casals and who used Shelley's Beatrix Cenci as the basis of an opera.
What H links Orpheus in the Underworld, The Queen of Cyprus (praised by Wagner), and The Sheriff (praised by Berlioz)?Comment
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I think we may have 2 Halevys .....Ludovic who wrote the French text for Orpheus in the Underworld and Fromental with his Queen of Cyprus and Sheriff bringing the praise you mentionedComment
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A witty gossiper who wrote the wiki entry on Halévy's family:
Halévy's wife, Léonie, who had experienced serious mental problems during their marriage, underwent a remarkable recovery after his death and became a talented sculptress. (She was 20 years younger than he.) Their daughter Genéviève married the composer Georges Bizet, who had been one of Halévy's pupils at the Conservatoire. After Bizet's death, and an alliance with Élie-Miriam Delaborde, the son of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Geneviève married a banker with Rothschild connections and became a leading Parisian hostess. Amongst the guests at her soirées was the young Marcel Proust, who used her as one of the models for the Duchesse de Guermantes in his epic In Search of Lost Time.
Halévy's brother was the writer and historian Léon Halévy, who wrote an early biography of his brother and was the father of Ludovic Halévy, librettist of many French operas, including Bizet's Carmen and Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Léon was also the father, by his mistress Lucinde Paradol, of the politician Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol.
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I must check if there's a Halevy biography, they do sound to have been an entertaining group of people, although not immune to tragedy of course.Originally posted by hedgehog View PostA witty gossiper who wrote the wiki entry on Halévy's family:
Halévy's wife, Léonie, who had experienced serious mental problems during their marriage, underwent a remarkable recovery after his death and became a talented sculptress. (She was 20 years younger than he.) Their daughter Genéviève married the composer Georges Bizet, who had been one of Halévy's pupils at the Conservatoire. After Bizet's death, and an alliance with Élie-Miriam Delaborde, the son of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Geneviève married a banker with Rothschild connections and became a leading Parisian hostess. Amongst the guests at her soirées was the young Marcel Proust, who used her as one of the models for the Duchesse de Guermantes in his epic In Search of Lost Time.
Halévy's brother was the writer and historian Léon Halévy, who wrote an early biography of his brother and was the father of Ludovic Halévy, librettist of many French operas, including Bizet's Carmen and Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Léon was also the father, by his mistress Lucinde Paradol, of the politician Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol.
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I am far from keen on I......
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Keyboard with poodles
Going My Way
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We've gone to the cinema Ams.....Comment
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Nothing to do with Peppi and Pippo then?Originally posted by antongould View PostPacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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No this was a pianist with canine friends....Comment
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