(I'm sorry for linking to Evil Spotify - but I'm pretty sure the version on YouTube is sped up.)

With all the getting brow-beaten by life and CPTSD, I don't have many "glimmers" left… Except when I rediscover certain bits of music. It's been a while since I listened to The Mikado top to bottom, and I forgot how utterly delightful the "With laughing song and merry dance / Then let the throng our joy advance" choral bit is.

Starting about 2:21 (busts loose about 2:46) - bit of an interlude - then a reprise until 4:20ish with Katisha's entrance. (This Act I finale track also features one of Pitti-Sing's (who I played ca. 2015 in a local production) little mini solos.) (Being one of the few people on stage who could take that high Bb for "joyous, joyous shout" in the chorus was a thrill, too.)
The Mikado, Act I: Finale. With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PL3azadruMsHTCp9DrVjP

Then you get a taste of it again in the Act 2 finale… just deliciously giddy music.
The Mikado, Act II: Finale. For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CJ5666MTSP4sp7woonfZY

Weird request: If you're in #IT/#Programming and are a fan of #GilbertAndSullivan - any chance I can run a parody past you before I record it?

Trying to figure out if it works (and if it goes too far)

The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #RemembranceDay in #Llandudno, while #KingCharlie was an authorised fake #FieldMarshal in Whitehall.

But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.

#GilbertAndSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the eponymous bookseller whose political career led him to be #FirstSeaLord.

"He thought so little, they rewarded he
By making him the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!"

#HMSpinafore

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XlNG1VS9ucA

Bit of a bargain at Waterstones for ukulele players at the moment. Copies of "The Songs of Gilbert & Sullivan for Ukulele" are on sale at £2. If you're ordering enough other stuff to pass the £25 mark then (UK) postage is free, but even if you pay the regular £2.99 postal fee it's still an excellent price for this book.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-songs-of-gilbert-and-sullivan-for-ukulele/dick-sheridan/9781574243260

I will mention that it's not perfect, of course. The main objection is that it's really "Portions of Some of the Songs of Gilbert & Sullivan for Ukulele," since it only gives you the better known parts, much as Jim Beloff's Daily Ukulele books tend to present the chorus rather than the full song. A common practice, but still annoying.

The online recordings are soulless MIDI versions, but serve to let you know how the tunes go if you're unsure.

All in all, well worth a look at this price. Takes me back forty years to my turn on stage in The Pirates of Penzance.

#Ukulele #GilbertAndSullivan #Music #Books #Waterstones #OurPriceCheap

This entire fucking thread oh my god 🤣

https://neuromatch.social/@lina/114768147319055082

#AntiAI #GilbertAndSullivan

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#Poetry #Satire #TomFreeman #TheStroppyEditor #GilbertAndSullivan #LargeLanguageModels #ModernMajorGeneral #Music #ThePiratesOfPenzance

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