Musical Theatre's Most Iconic Duo | The Life & Times of Arthur Sullivan
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Arthur Sullivan was one of those kids that made everyone hate themselves because while his friends were learning how to carry the one, he composed an anthem about weeping for Jerusalem on the shores of Babylon and he could play all of the instruments himself. He got a Mendelssohn scholarship at 14 and by the time he graduated high school he was playing the equivalent of Madison Square Garden. Now he’s writing for the Queen, he’s adapting Shakespeare and Tennyson, Britain kinda missed the boat for Romantic music, but now they’ve got less-racist Wagner on the rise and they want the world to know. Only problem was he was broke. So Sullivan does what any respectable artist would and sells out, doing a couple comic operas here and there, and one day this producer approaches him and says “Hey, there’s this guy I want you to meet” and brings him to see Gilbert, a big-wig writer/director in dire need of a composer. And so was born opera's most iconic duo.
Music (in order of appearance):
Sir Arthur Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance Overture
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Sir Arthur Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore Overture
Sir Neville Marriner covering Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance Overture
original parody of "My eyes are fully open" from Ruddigore (by Gilbert & Sullivan)
David Rose & Orchestra covering Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again, Naturally