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Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
In 1919, Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club.
Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).
* 1946 – Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Irish singer
* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.
In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.
Category: People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert ( 1836 – 1911 ) and the composer Arthur Sullivan ( 1842 – 1900 ).
Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration.
Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan
At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.
Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan would write their first work together.
In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.
Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.
Over the next four years, Gilbert and Sullivan did not have occasion to work together again, but each man became more eminent in his field.
Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.
After the success of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan were suddenly in demand to write more operas together.
Carte proposed a revival of Thespis for the 1875 Christmas season, which Gilbert and Sullivan would have revised, but he was unable to obtain financing for the project.
In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.
He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.
Gilbert and Sullivan were tireless taskmasters, seeing to it that The Sorcerer opened as a fully polished production, in marked contrast to the under-rehearsed Thespis.
Gilbert and introduced
The term intron was introduced by American biochemist Walter Gilbert:
The Gilbert – Elliott model is a simple channel model introduced by Edgar Gilbert and E. O. Elliott widely used for describing burst error patterns in transmission channels, that enables simulations of the digital error performance of communications links.
Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied Major-General's Song.
Some of the plot elements of Ruddigore had been introduced by Gilbert in his earlier one-act opera, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), including the tale of the wicked ancestor and the device of the ancestors stepping out of their portraits.
One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing ( 1875 ), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music.
Near the final stages of the design work, Gilbert introduced several characters who were not directly related to the game's story.
This number did not please Gilbert, who called it an " introduced and wholly irrelevant song.
K3, introduced in 1929, again by Gilbert Scott was similar to K2 but was constructed from concrete and intended for nationwide use.
Lastly, in 1926, one year before the theory of quantum mechanics was published, Gilbert N. Lewis introduced the term " photon ", which soon became the name for Einstein ’ s light particle.
In 1782, Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an Act that established poor houses solely for the aged and infirm and introduced a system of outdoor relief for the able-bodied.
The Metropolitan Police ( Met ) introduced police boxes throughout London between 1928 and 1937, and the design that later became the most well-known was created for the Met by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1929.
The term " category-mistake " was introduced by Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind ( 1949 ) to remove what he argued to be a confusion over the nature of mind born from Cartesian metaphysics.
Gilbert had met Boxleitner as a teenager when they both were on Battle of the Network Stars when Gilbert introduced herself, as she had a pin-up of him in her locker.
Gilbert invented Erector in 1911, inspired by railroad girders, and the construction toy was introduced two years later.
At the same time, Gilbert introduced a line of HO scale trains, which were primarily marketed under the brand name Gilbert HO.
Gilbert introduced S gauge model railroads in 1946, mostly in response to the shortcomings of O scale utilized by Lionel and Marx.
Timus was introduced so as to give Gilbert something more to do than sit in a recording booth all day and would make semi regular appearances right up to the very final story in 1979.
The Lewis structure was named after Gilbert Newton Lewis, who introduced it in his 1916 article The Atom and the Molecule.
* British General Post Office K2 red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott introduced, chiefly in London area.
Gilbert and innovations
One of the major innovations Gilbert noted was that Machiavelli focused upon the " deliberate purpose of dealing with a new ruler who will need to establish himself in defiance of custom ".
The figure of Anteros from the Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly CircusSir Alfred Gilbert ( 12 August 1854 – 4 November 1934 ) was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations.
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