October 21, 1858 marked the world premiere of Offenbach's opera Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). Its culminating piece of music, the "galop infernal" was to become the conventional and most widely-used piece of music to accompany public exhibitions of the can-can, although other pieces, such as Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance", or the song "Ta-Ra-Ra- Boom-De-Yay" […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:54AM on October 21, 2024