2 Sullivan, Franklin Taylor, Walter Bache, and Carl Rosa frequently met at the house of Barnett's aunt, Mrs. John Barnett (the wife of the composer), and every Sunday she kept open house for them, feeding them as well as providing an ...
Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert and Sullivan. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. ______ Gilbert, His Life and Strife. London: Methuen, 1957. Rees, Terence. Thespis, A Gilbert and Sullivan Enigma. London: Dillon's, 1964. Ridley, Jasper.
At the beginning, the relationship may be depicted schematically: Ko-Ko Katisha loves W loves Yum-Yum-e loves > Nanki-POO From the outset, it is clear that this is a wrong ordering. For one thing, neither the love of Ko-Ko for Yum-Yum ...
... Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 72. Davis, Actresses as Working Women, pp. 105–36. Donald Roy, introduction to Plays by James Robinson Planché, ed.
He was in Leeds on Saturday, September, for a choral rehearsal and then was back in London on the Sunday, rehearsing Geraldine Ulmar, Courtice Pounds, Jessie Bond, and Rutland Barrington, the four singers in the complicated number ...
Introduces the Victorian operetta, looks at the lives and careers of the writer-composer team, and gives an overview of the creation, plot, and production of their operettas
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, ...
Making extensive use of archival resources, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs; letters, diaries, and account books; and the operas themselves to reconstruct the ways in which Gilbert and Sullivan ...
Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities – and their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works.
11¥60. Crowther, Andrew. Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert. London: Associated UP, 2000. Davis, Jim, and Victor Emeljanow. Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840–1880. Iowa City, Iowa: U of Iowa P, 2001.
The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson's biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities - and their equally famous quarrel.
An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Piano/vocal format. In the world of music, whenever perfect welding of lyrics and music if discussed and commented upon, highest praise is unfailingly given to the works of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
... piano playing ( 1873–97 ) , wrote several tutorial books for the piano , directed the Philharmonic Society ( 1891–3 ) ... easy charm of manner , and adaptability to all sorts and conditions of persons and circumstances , as when he became ...