Wow Karen, that's great!!! Thank you
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Mercedes [SMTP:dalila@R...]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:09 PM
> To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Gretry
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 RRicciardi@S... wrote:
>
> > Hello there, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the work of a
> > French composer, a contemporary of Mozart (I believe) named André
> Grétry.
> > I've been told that he has very beautiful music. Any information will
> be
> > helpful.
>
> Gretry was born in Liege, which is now part of Francophone Belgium, in
> 1741. He is generally credited for founding the French opera-comique
> school (i.e., operas with spoken dialogue rather than recitatives).
>
>
> There is some information on him at the French Foreign Ministry
> Gallery of Composers website:
>
> http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/musique/composit/gretry.htm
> l
>
> This page includes a sound clip from his opera LA CARAVANE DU CAIRE (The
> Caravan of Cairo).
>
> A complete list of Gretry's works appears at:
> http://idt.net/~johnp3/ume/gretry.html
>
> The libretto for Gretry's most famous opera, ZEMIRE AND AZOR appears at:
> http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/libretti/zemire.htm
>
> A MIDI file of Zemire's ariette "La fauvette avec ses petites" appears at:
> http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/music/zemire01.mid
>
>
> A synopsis and link to the French libretto of his RICHARD COEUR DE LION
> are at:
> http://www.castle.net/~rfrone/sfo/sfo-q-r.htm#richard_coeur_de_lion
>
> Other operas and opera-ballets by Gretry include ISABELLE ET GERTRUDE, LE
> HURON, SYLVAIN, LE JUGEMENT DE MIDAS, DENYS LE TYRAN - MAITRE D'ECOLE A
> CORINTHE, LE CALIFE DE BAGDAD, L'AMANT JALOUX, CEPHALE ET PROCRIS, and LE
> TABLEAU PARLANT.
>
> There is a streaming RealAudio file of Sumi Jo singing an excerpt from "Je
> romps la chaine qui m'engage from L'AMANT JALOUX at:
> http://www.towerrecords.com/ra/hurlPNM.exe?/towerlink/~pp-450351/0190176_0
> 102_07_0002.ra
>
> There is a streaming RealAudio excerpt from the overture of LE JUDGEMENT
> DE MIDAS at:
> http://search.borders.com/fcgi-bin/hurlpnm?~z-473645/0142586_0101_07_0002.
> ra
>
> Gretry also wrote the music that later had English text set on it by Lidie
> Edmunds to create the popular hymn "My Faith Has Found A Resting Place".
> His Concerto for Violin #5 in A minor (op 37) is a favourite party piece
> for solo violinsts.
>
> A Belgian documentary about Gretry won the Cannes Film Festival
> documentary prize in 1955.
>
> Karen
> -----
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> Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
> Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
> Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet.
> -- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER
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