Gounod
Americannoun
noun
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The end of the ceremony featured music by Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Spohr and Beethoven, wresting the funeral music from the hands of British composers.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022
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
Congregation Kneseth Israel invites the community to a performance of works by Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Delibes, Gounod and others.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015
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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