Female composers have historically been excluded from the French concert hall.
Mr. Link's music is more of a mishmash than a fusion of classical chorales, down-home American country style, French music hall and Viennese waltzes, under a swaying Jerry Herman influence.
So it was from the saddle of a three-year-old gelding named IC Lad that Walton successfully bid for several lots from the Fraad collection: "Spring," a gorgeous watercolor of a rural scene, by Winslow Homer; "A French Music Hall," by Everett Shinn, the Ashcan School artist; and "The Studio," by George Bellows, which depicts the artist at work with his children playing at his feet.
"The Butterfly," first staged in 2008 and since revised, has gained intensity from a more intimate theater and a reduced musical ensemble: just a keyboard player, Tim Rosser, and a violinist, Whitney LaGrange, play Charles Greenberg's score, which has hints of the French music hall as well as of folk and klezmer.
Mr. Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" on the other hand, is so madly in love with Broadway, the French music hall, rock 'n' roll and MTV that it tosses them into the blender and comes up with an intoxicating three-ring circus of sound and post-Impressionistic imagery.
Several French city halls have faced legal challenges for giving mosques land too cheaply.
Charles Trenet, one of the last great French music-hall singers, will also perform.
There will also be a modern "Don Juan" in Spanish, the Swingle Singers, chamber-music orchestras from Moscow & Prague, and Leo Ferre, the French music-hall ballad singer.
"My Man" was sung in tribute to the French music-hall legend Mistinguett, who popularized it in 1916 as "Mon Homme," several years before Fanny Brice recorded it.
