Gilbert and Sullivan tonight on KUSC

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[EveningStar]

Click, listen, and enjoy.

[EveningStar]

Sorry for the late ping. I just learned of this.

[steve8714]

The best movie musical moment ever is Linda Ronstadt singing “Poor wand’ring one”.

[EveningStar]

SoCal ping for our classical music station. :)

[mkjessup]

Gilbert and Sullivan, I always liked their Top-40 hit, “Alone Again, Naturally”, sad but quaint.

[JRios1968]

Maybe they will play this classic...

[BenLurkin]

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdCnRuGgl4g

[sitetest]

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[higgmeister]

You're to late. I'm watching Topsy-Turvy right now on Ovation. It is almost over and they are playing it again at midnight EDT.

[higgmeister]

I’m with you now! Thanks for the link.

[Fiji Hill]

Although he is perhaps best known for creating musical shows with his partner William S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan also wrote the tunes for several hymns, including “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

[Fiji Hill]

In 1982, I saw Andy Gibb play the lead in The Pirates of Penzance at the Music Center in Los Angeles. Although Gibb, a superstar on the disco scene in the late 1970's, did an excellent job, I was unaware at the time that his career was on a downhill slide, mainly because of his drug abuse. He was dropped from the show when it when on the road later that year, faded quickly into obscurity, and died in 1988 at the age of 30.

[BenLurkin]

“Three Little Maids From School Are We”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWkIZUPmDY&feature=related

Valerie Masterson in The Mikado (vaimusic.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNtTm5XEfY

[Fiji Hill]

In the early 1980's, when I was a graduate student at the University of Southern California, Townsend Hoopes, Undersecretary of the Air Force under President Johnson, a disarmament advocate, and co-chairman of Americans For SALT, remarked that one of my professors, Dr. William R. Van Cleave, belonged to "a band of nuclear theoreticians." Van Cleave, a hardliner on defense and security issues who headed the USC Defense and Strategic Studies program and opposed the SALT II agreement, responded by writing "A Band of Nuclear Theoreticians Are We," a song which lampooned Hoopes to the tune of “Three Little Maids From School Are We.”

[higgmeister]

LOL - I know you know from our participation on the weekend video threads that I've already seen these. I like Shirley Henderson's rendition better than Valerie Masterson's version because it is more down to earth and approachable.

Shirley Henderson — "The sun whose rays are all ablaze" in "Topsy Turvy"

Shirley Henderson's delivery is as if she really feels the emotion she sings of.   Masterson's delivery is more operatic and precise and therefore does not touch me.