Jacques Offenbach “Apache Dance” International Novelty Orchestra, Nat Shilkret = ballet Le Papillon
Details
| Title | Jacques Offenbach “Apache Dance” International Novelty Orchestra, Nat Shilkret = ballet Le Papillon |
| Author | Tim Gracyk |
| Duration | 2:56 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=dEJV8RNzbsA |
Description
Offenbach's “Apache Dance” is played by the International Novelty Orchestra, led by Nat Shilkret.
The music is "Valse des Rayons" from the ballet Le Papillon by Jacques Offenbach. It has other names, too.
Victor 19351.
This is the early version, recorded on April 16, 1924.
Shilkret later re-recorded it when electric sound came along in the studio.
Why is it called Apache Dance? Why would a French composer use that term?
In fin de siècle Paris (around the time Proust was a young man), young members of street gangs were labelled Apaches by the press because of their savagery towards one another.
In other words, the French used a name that was famous due to a native North American indigenous people, the Apache.
The dance has various names--Apache, or La Danse Apache, Bowery Waltz, Apache Turn, Apache Dance and Tough Dance.
The name of the dance is pronounced ah-PAHSH, not uh-PATCH-ee, like the English pronunciation of the Native American tribe.
Jacques Offenbach “Apache Dance” International Novelty Orchestra, Nat Shilkret = ballet Le Papillon
