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Music Maestro |
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Music Maestro |
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Here's some of music I like to hear at the theatre. |
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Here's Offenbach. He's one of my favourites. He writes Operettas ... funny operas with spoken bits ... Have a listen to a little bit of Orpheus in the Underworld. I think you will recognise it! |
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Sir Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert wrote
14 musical plays together. The tunes were fun and the words were funny. Victorians loved
them. Here are samples of three of the plays. The Pirates
of Penzance 1879 |
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If you would like to find out more about G&S then visit The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
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By 1870 there were hundreds of Music Halls all over England. People enjoyed the dancing and the singing. Here's just one of the famous songs ... from around 1860. The Man on Click on the stage to listen. |
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