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Chorus and solo parts have been selected from the following numbers: "Trial by Jury," "Pirate of Penzance," "Sorcerer," "Mikado," "Patience," "Pinafore," "Yeoman of the Guard," "Princess Ida," "Ruddigore," "Iolan the," and "The Gondoliers...
...keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took to the light operatic stage, appearing in La Mascotte, Fatinitza, Erminie, The Mikado, H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. During this period she married Harry Brown, musi-comedian, by whom she had a son who died at the age of four. About that time she left the stage, joining the staff of the Daily News in 1890. Her second husband...
...pack his roofless house with 8,000 spectators-1,600 of whom get free seats. This season's repertoire includes: The Desert Song, Madame Pompadour, The New Moon, Blossom Time, Show Boat. For its first few years the project staged only light operas, such as Robin Hood, The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...motored around the tidal basin in Washington's Potomac Park, admired, along with thousands of ordinary citizens, the first pinkish-white bloom of the famed Japanese cherry trees which 'Mrs. William Howard Taft. when her husband was in the White House, received as a present from the Mikado and presented to the nation...
...contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom. He had long cherished the ambition to do something more dignified, more pretentious, more "worthy" of his musical ability. Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written?The Mikado! Superbly Sullivan matched improbable for improbable, comic for comic, and suspected miserably that he was belittling...