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Adam, Adolphe Charles
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Adam, Adolphe Charles (ädōlf` shärl` ädäN`), 1803–56, French composer of the popular song Cantique de Noël. He composed more than 50 stage works, including comic operas such as Le Postillon de Longjumeau (1836) and the ballet Giselle (1841).
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Two great story ballets come to the Lensic Performing Arts Center when the Russian National Ballet Theatre performs Giselle with music by Adolphe Adam and Cinderella with music by Prokofiev for the Santa Fe Concert Association.
MIXED MEDIA by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) wrote his ballet Giselle in 1841, but it slipped out of public consciousness until the 1920s, when the Parisians revived it.
More Decca Originals: Adam: Giselle by Puccio, John / Sensible Sound
Their best numbers were The Coventry Carol and O Holy Night by Frenchman Adolphe Adam, he of the ballet Giselle, that sounds like an English Victorian ballad, and their oddest was Reginald Spofforth's Hail smiling morn that sounds like a drinking chorus rather than a carol
A seasonal pot-pourri by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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