bach-gounod

Updated: June 6, 2025

Without posing as the so-called "superior person," without demanding unpopular classics or asking for the performance of serious chamber music or severe symphonies, or expressing a desire for Bach a holiday might very well be given to the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria" we merely pray for greater variety and also for more careful consideration of the congruity between the play and the character of the entr'acte and introductory music.

Edward Fordham Spence - Our Stage and Its Critics : By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

Very Teutonic also is the airiness and grace of "Rosebud." To that delightful collection of children's songs, "The St. All of his lyrics are delicious, and "I Had a Little Pony" should become a nursery classic. In his "Lord God, Hear My Prayer," Bartlett throws down the gauntlet to the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," with results rather disastrous.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions