Ballet Music

Israelites and the pompous and warlike ones of the Philistines, the exquisite love-song of Samson and Delila, and last but not least the charming ballet-music, with its truly Eastern character entitle the opera to rank amongst the very best of the past century. ❋ Charles Annesley (N/A)

Haymarket -- of course people _will_ talk -- why she's nothing to the girls who dance to M. JACOBI's inimitable ballet-music at the ❋ Various (N/A)

Loomis has an especial aptitude for writing artistic ballet-music, and for composing in the tone of different nationalities, particularly the ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

The Frenchman Herold, son of a good musician, made ballet-music artistic while he paced the dance of death with consumption, and died in his forty-second year, a month after his masterpiece, “Le Pre aux Clercs,” had been produced and had wrung from him the wail: “I am going too soon; I was just beginning to understand the stage.” ❋ Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 (1903)

His first great triumph was in ballet-music, which has ever since been his specialty. ❋ Unknown (1876)

The Frenchman Hérold, son of a good musician, made ballet-music artistic while he paced the dance of death with consumption, and died in his forty-second year, a month after his masterpiece, "Le Pré aux ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)