Sunday, May 13, 2007

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur!

Sullivan
Today in 1842 the musical half of Gilbert and Sullivan - Sir Arthur Sullivan - was born. Besides the undying music of G&S, he wrote a couple of operas - The Rose of Persia and Ivanhoe - which were popular in their day, and a cantata, The Golden Legend, which was almost as popular as Handel's Messiah. But it is, of course, as half of the pair whose comic light operas (or operettas) are performed more often than any other that he will be remembered.

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