Papers Presentations And Patter A Savoyards Symposium

Download or read book Papers, Presentations and Patter: A Savoyards' Symposium written by Ralph MacPhail, Jr. (Editor) and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Gettysburg, PA, in June 2011. Edited, and with an Introduction by Ralph MacPhail, Jr.; Foreword by Rich Wiley. Contents include "Components of Gilbert's Genius" by Harry Benford; "Was Gilbert a Little Liberal or a Little Conservative?" by Ian Bradley; "Gilbert's Girls" by Elise Curran; "The Humor of the Operas" by John E. Dreslin; "Cheerful Facts about Matters Mathematical" by Thomas Drucker; "Think British--Sing Yiddish!" by Al Grand; "'H.M.S. Pinafore' in American Waters" by William Hyder; "The Principal Comic Roles" by Sylvan H. Kesilman; "The Reality of 'Iolanthe'" by Daniel Kravetz; "The Savoy Operas Viewed through an Aristotelian Lens" by Shane K. Magargal; "The Curious Case of 'Little Maid of Arcadee'" by Marc Shepherd; "The Writing and Composition of 'The Mountebanks'" by J. Donald Smith; "Gilbert & Sullivan's Influence on the American Musical" by Andrew Vorder Bruegge; and "Gender Parody in the Savoy Operas" by Carolyn Williams.