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The glories of G&S
ow lovely to see your article on Gilbert & Sullivan (, Christmas issue) and even more touching to know that they are still loved by amateur societies, as they should be. Not that Sullivan ever wanted to be famous for that, though. He once admitted in an interview that it bothered him to set music to such polished lines and metre as: ‘We figure in lively paint, Our attitude’s queer and quaint, You’re wrong if you think it ain’t, Oh!’
