Le Can
Jacques Offenbach (arr. Kenneth Whitcomb)
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General Info
Year: 1858 /
Duration: c. 3:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is an opéra bouffe. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux. The work, first performed in 1858, is said to be the first classical full-length operetta.
The Infernal Galop from Act 2, Scene 2, is famous outside classical circles as the music for the "can-can", upon which Whitcomb's Le Can is based.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Gold Coast Wind Ensemble (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) (Clinton H. Dawley, conductor) – 4 June 2017
- California State University, Long Beach, Wind Symphony (John Carnahan, conductor) – 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- The Can-Can (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1858/2008)
All Wind Works
- Ballet Parisian (arr. Bender) (1938/1993
- Ballet Parisien (arr. Isaac) (1953)
- Barcarolle
- The Can-Can (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1858/2008)
- Drum Major's Daughter, The (arr. Odom) (1879/1974)
- Galop (arr. Bourgeois) (1859/2001)
- Infernal Galop (arr. VanDuren) (1858/2019)
- La Belle Hélène Overture (arr. Odom) (1864/1978)
- La Vie Parisienne (arr. Singleton) (2004)
- Le Can (arr. Whitcomb) (1858)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann (arr. Safranek) (1880/1910)
- Madame Favart Overture
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr Binder) (arr. Binder, ed. McAlister) (1858/2004)
- Orpheus in the Underworld (tr. Nefs) (1858/2019)
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr Odom) (arr. Odom) (1858/1984)
- Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (arr. Lake and Kent) (1858/1946)
- Overture to "La Vie Parisienne" (arr. Singleton) (1866/2004)
- Overture to "Voyage to the Moon" (trans. Bourgeois) (1875/2017)
- Portraits from La Périchole
- Tales of Hoffman (arr. Safranek). See: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Themes from "La Belle Hélène" (arr. Mahaffey) (1864/1997)
- Themes from Offenbach (arr. Johnson) (1959)
Resources
- Orpheus in the Underworld, Wikipedia Accessed 2 June 2017