A Gilbert and Sullivan evening - listen online tonight

Classical KUSC FM 91.5 Los Angeles ^ | February 7, 2012

[EveningStar]

Tuesday, February 7: A Gilbert and Sullivan evening, featuring performances of The Pirates of Penzance and Patience (complete with spoken dialogue) by the D’Oyle Carte Opera Company.

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[Fiji Hill]

I saw The Pirates of Penzance at the LosAngeles Music Center in 1982. Andy Gibb played the lead. Above the stage were two huge portraits of Queen Victoria and President Hayes.

Gibb did a superb job, but unbeknownst to us, he was on his way down. A few weeks later, he would be dropped from the cast when the production went on the road. A problem with drugs eventually ended his show business career and then his life.

[BenLurkin]

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

[Bon of Babble]

Oh, how wonderful!!

I didn’t know anyone listened to G & S besides me!! (and a few others).

I own the movie Topsy-Turvy, one of my favorites, about the making of The Mikado.

My favorite: The Mikado.

Son’s favorite: HMS Pinafore

Friend’s Favorite: Princess Ida

Enjoy

[Verginius Rufus]

Appropriately it's a leap year. There is a character in The Pirates of Penzance who was born on February 29th--and apprenticed to a pirate until his 21st birthday.

"Come, friends, who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation, take another station,
Let's vary piracy
With a little burglary!"

[Sudetenland]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,<
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

WHEW!!!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

bfl

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[MinuteGal]

Oh, phooey....it starts at 10 PM in my time zone, ending at 3 AM.

I.....don't.....think.....so.

Discrimination!....I'm going to sue!

Leni

[TexConfederate1861]

“I thought SO LITTLE, the rewarded ME, by making me the ruler of the USA! (The lost forgotten Obama Stanza) from HMS Pinafore!

[TexConfederate1861]

“I thought SO LITTLE, they rewarded ME, by making me the ruler of the USA! (The lost forgotten Obama Stanza) from HMS Pinafore!

[Sudetenland]

HE IS A KE-EN-YAN!

He is a Ke-en-yan
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is a Ke-en-yan!


THAT HE IS A KE-EN-YAN!

For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!


OR PERHAPS ITALI-AN!

But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Ke-en-yan!
He remains an Ke-en-yan!

BUT IN SPITE OF ALL TEMPTATIONS
TO BELONG TO OTHER NATIONS,
HE REMAINS A KE-EN-YAN!
HE REMAINS A KE-EN-YAN!

There you go. :)

[luvbach1]

I saw Bill Hayes (he of soap opera fame, and earlier, Sid Caesar’s Show of Shows, now retired) in the Mikado (he was (Nan Ke Poo)at the Railroad Fair in Chicago in 1949. I was just a kid and he a young man.

[luvbach1]

Too clever! Maya Angelou eat your heart out!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Oh, phooey....it starts at 10 PM in my time zone, ending at 3 AM.

You could download a copy of "Audacity" and record the whole thing...while you sleep. You'd just need to start it at 10pm and let it run. Even a recording that goes from 10pm to 6am would only be about 500Mb in an MP3 file.

[left that other site]

Ahhhhh! I LOVE G&S!!!!

There is always one or two of their operas in my Netflix !

Pirates and patience are among my favorites, of that there is no manner of doubt, no possible probable shadow of doubt, no possible doubt whatever.

[Verginius Rufus]

Brekekekekex koax koax,
brekekekex koax koax...