#w.s. gilbert

[greencheekconure27]

W.S. Gilbert creating Jack Point:

This is who you're being mean to btw 🥺

[caroleditosti]

'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' is a must see!

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[musicianrambles]

Captain from HMS Pinafore v Major General from Pirates Of Penzance fight

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

Have you read "Angela: An Inverted Love Story" by W.S. Gilbert?

Yes

No

I've never heard of this

Voting ended onDec 31, 2023

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: “The Pirates of Penzance,” a “topsy-turvy” comic opera with lyrics by dramatist W.S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) and music by composer Arthur Sullivan (1842 – 1900), receives its New York premiere in 1879. Gilbert and Sullivan are still widely recognized as one of the all-time-great teams in musical history, churning out more than a dozen classic comic operas (including “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Mikado”) between 1871 – 1896, many of which continue to delight audiences nearly a century and a half later. In 1922, conductor Sir Henry Wood (1869 – 1944) explained the enduring success of their remarkable collaboration as follows: “Sullivan has never had an equal for brightness and drollery, for humour without coarseness and without vulgarity, and for charm and grace. His orchestration is delightful: he wrote with full understanding of every orchestral voice. Above all, his music is perfectly appropriate to the words of which it is the setting.... He found the right, the only cadences to fit Gilbert's happy and original rhythms, and to match Gilbert's fun or to throw Gilbert's frequent irony, pointed although not savage, into relief. Sullivan's music is much more than the accompaniment of Gilbert's libretti, just as Gilbert's libretti are far more than words to Sullivan's music. We have two masters who are playing a concerto. Neither is subordinate to the other; each gives what is original, but the two, while neither predominates, are in perfect correspondence. This rare harmony of words and music is what makes these operas entirely unique. They are the work not of a musician and his librettist nor of a poet and one who sets his words to music, but of two geniuses..." PICTURED: Two short autograph letters, handwritten and signed (separately) by Gilbert and Sullivan, respectively.

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 18 November

[eightmuppetynotes]

Muppet Song of the Day: "Tit Willow"

Music: Arthur Sullivan

Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert

[thevortexofourminds]

You all know THAT person, don't you?

And I don't mean the guy in the picture, I mean the person the guy in the picture is talking about.

The "Sunday Poem"... Today with a poem about your co-worker. And also my co-worker. Basically, everyone's co-worker: "The Disagreeable Man" by W. S. Gilbert

All the Sunday poems here (click the word "here")