arsene york-hunt 12:49 Tue Aug 23
I really like Sullivan
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...but most of his best stuff was done with Gilbert
What's your favourite piece by G & S?
The Mikado for me.
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arsene york-hunt
10:47 Wed Aug 24
Re: I really like Sullivan
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gph 1:44 Wed Aug 24
G&S light operas do have all the grandeur, and more, than many of the grand operas, and Arthur Sullivan's music exceeds many, I would rate him with Elgar and Purcell as the top 3 English composers.
Not sure what you mean by "the pain." I've never experienced any pain watching opera so can't comment on that. Although I did have bad cramp while watching Seigfried after playing football that morning, does that count?
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Texas Iron
8:50 Wed Aug 24
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Performed in several at high school in UK…
Mikado
Cox & Box
Trial by Jury
Pinafore
Yeomen
Pirates of Penzance…
Great amusing stuff…clever words and situations…
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Sven Roeder
8:35 Wed Aug 24
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The Mike Leigh film TOPSY TURVY about G&S is very good.
About 20 years old with Jim Broadbent as Gilbert.
Timothy Spall & Ron Cook in it too.
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gph
1:44 Wed Aug 24
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Light opera = all the pain of opera, without the grandeur*
*the grandeur isn't woth the pain
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Jasnik
9:01 Tue Aug 23
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I thought he was great in Robins nest.
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Rio or Anton or Les
8:29 Tue Aug 23
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Gilbert O Sullivan,
Always going to the bank to ask the manager for money apparently.
"Alone again, naturally!"
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Willtell
2:32 Tue Aug 23
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The Brady Theme.
A little played medley of old feminist nonsense but makes me smile every time I hear it....
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Coffee
2:06 Tue Aug 23
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WHO is a great teacher, isn't it?
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Manuel
2:00 Tue Aug 23
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Coffee - No.
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Coffee
1:53 Tue Aug 23
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That doesn't really matter when you're good at integral and differential calculus.
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arsene york-hunt
1:51 Tue Aug 23
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... but stll doesn't know the meaning of the word Commissariat
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Coffee
1:49 Tue Aug 23
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Manuel, yep. Did you know that he was very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical?
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arsene york-hunt
1:49 Tue Aug 23
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Manuel 1:32 Tue Aug 23
Should that not be Richard Turpin nowadays?
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Manuel
1:46 Tue Aug 23
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Coffee - He was definitely a regular, happy presence on the box growing up. Glad the old fella is still around.
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Coffee
1:43 Tue Aug 23
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He was the very model of a modern major-general.
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Manuel
1:32 Tue Aug 23
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I use to love Richard O'Sullivan, was in Dick Turpin, too. Now lives in a retirement home for actors in West London.
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eusebiovic
1:29 Tue Aug 23
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Northern Sold
Also cooked up an acceptable Coq au Vin in Robin's Nest
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North Bank
1:24 Tue Aug 23
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WS Gilbert used to live in a stately home in North London and gave up a large part of his grounds to develop an 18 hole golf course around 1905, it's owned by the members on a debenture of which I used to be one for 20 years.
Oh and The Mikado
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Sydney_Iron
1:03 Tue Aug 23
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Talented bloke as along with the singing/song writing/performing also a bit of a legend with a snooker cue?
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Northern Sold
12:59 Tue Aug 23
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Was excellent in Man About the House....
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goose
12:56 Tue Aug 23
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One for Northern Sold this.
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