Jacques Ibert (ee-BAIR) was in the French navy during World War One. His ship visited several ports around the Mediterranean, and after the war, Ibert turned his memories into a musical travelogue ...

For the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s “Rush Hour Classics” concert Thursday evening at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts’ Belding Theater, the theme was Paris by way of the composers Haydn, ...

A Mozart Quintet for clarinet, two violins, a viola and cello, six of Jacques Ibert Histoires (Stories) arranged by Michel-Joseph Gebauer, and end with horn player Amit Melzer playing an Olivier ...

Colin Jacobsen is back in NPR's Studio 4A for his second day as PT's newest Young Artist. Today he has an hour of trio music in store. First, Ieva Jokubavichiute (YEH-va jo-ku-bah-vih-CHU-tay) and ...

Though he is not well-known in the U.S., Jacques Ibert (rhymes with he bear) is one of France’s best composers. U.S. music lovers may have heard his iridescent orchestral piece Escales (Ports of Call) ...

In 1921, Wilde’s publication had given rise to the first orchestral work of Jacques Ibert, a three-movement symphonic poem of yearning, cinematic contours that he later said would probably qualify as ...

Neeme Jarvi and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande have been immersing themselves in French music lately, with noteworthy albums of Massenet, Chabrier and Offenbach. Now they turn to the urbane ...

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A guilty pleasure does no harm from time to time. French composer Jacques Ibert was the musical magpie par excellence. His Escales clothes Debussy’s Impressionism in a rich, romantic costume. The ...