Composer Jacques

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He was leaving one pleasurable venue, a box at the Royal Festival Hall where he had been attending a charity recital of Offenbach arias, and was heading for another, the Palm Court at the Waldorf Hotel.

If you feel Offenbach, which is a separate city, is the environs of Frankfurt, he will approve the construction there.

The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, like Auber and Offenbach, not to mention our purveyors of drawing-room ballads, can produce an unlimited quantity of symmetrical tunes, but cannot weave themes symphonically.

Did they feign ignorance while slurping champagne, stuffing themselves with caviar and the finest food money could buy, ogling the spicy performers that there would be no Can-Can without music written by Offenbach, a Jew?

She danced through an eclectic melange of sound that comfortably encompassed Offenbach and Elton John.

He was, by a polite fiction, called the Duc de Morny, and he once collaborated with that Jew Offenbach in composing an operetta for a court ball, and making it very offensive.

Jacques Offenbach hastily left Paris for Italy, and thus earned himself a double damnation, for having cravenly deserted the city in these dire days, and for having been such a prominent fixture of it until now.

I prefer Wagner to squills, and compared to the delights of Mozart, Hayden and Offenbach those of paregoric are nit.

Several trips later, Pope brought him a bonanza from the next generationcompositions by Offenbach, Borodin, Bizet, Paganini, Liszt, and, above all, Berlioz and Wagner.

I found myself spewed out through the warm rain and into the dim, throbbing cave of a cab, together with Betsy and Hilda and Emily Ann Offenbach, a prim little girl with a bun of red hair and a husband and three children in Teaneck, New Jersey.