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Author: John Van der Kiste Publisher: Sutton Publishing ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 168
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While they may not be associated with Christmas to the same degree as Charles Dickens, Gilbert and Sullivan have become part of the Christmas season. The former began his career as a dramatist writing Christmas stories and children's plays, while the latter's prolific output as a composer included music for several carols. The two dominated English culture for much of the Victorian age.
Author: John Van der Kiste Publisher: Sutton Publishing ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
While they may not be associated with Christmas to the same degree as Charles Dickens, Gilbert and Sullivan have become part of the Christmas season. The former began his career as a dramatist writing Christmas stories and children's plays, while the latter's prolific output as a composer included music for several carols. The two dominated English culture for much of the Victorian age.
Author: Michael Ainger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195349008 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 529
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'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.' With these words, W.S. Gilbert summed up his reasons for persisting in his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan despite the combative nature of their relationship. In fact, Michael Ainger suggests in Gilbert and Sullivan the success of the pair's work is a direct result of their personality clash, as each partner challenged the other to produce his best work. After exhaustive research into the D'Oyly Carte collection of documents, Ainger offers the most detailed account to date of Gilbert and Sullivan's starkly different backgrounds and long working partnership. Having survived an impoverished and insecure childhood, Gilbert flourished as a financially successful theater professional, married happily and established himself as a property owner. His sense of proprietorship extended beyond real estate, and he fought tenaciously to protect the integrity of his musical works. Sullivan, the product of a supportive family who nourished his talent, was much less satisfied with stability than his collaborator. His creative self-doubts and self-demands led to nervous and physical breakdowns, but it also propelled the team to break the successful mode of their earliest work to produce more ambitious pieces of theater, including The Mikado and The Yeoman of the Guards . Offering previously-unpublished draft libretti and personal letters, this thorough double-biography will be an essential addition to the library of any Gilbert and Sullivan fan.
Author: Carolyn Williams Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231148054 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 498
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An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
Author: Gayden Wren Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195145144 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 416
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Most books written about Gilbert & Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than the works. With this detailed examination of all fourteen operas, Gayden Wren fills this void. His bold thesis finds the key to the operas' longevity, not in the clever lyrics, witty dialogue, or catchy music, but in their timeless themes, which speak to audiences as powerfully now as they did the first time the operas were performed. This volume is essential reading for any devotee of these enchanting works, or indeed for anyone who loves musical theater.
Author: Andrew Crowther Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752463853 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
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The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, and with Arthur Sullivan he wrote comic operas that defined the age. He became richer and more famous than he could have imagined, but at the price of his artistic freedom. In his time Gilbert had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories, dramatist. Andrew Crowther examines W.S. Gilbert from all these angles, using a wealth of sources to tell the story of an angry and quarrelsome man, discontented with himself and the age he lived in, raging at life's absurdities and laughing at them. In this book Gilbert's glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.
Author: Gayden Wren Publisher: ISBN: 0195301722 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 409
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Most books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.
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