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Forgotten Musicals - Alfred Cellier and Dorothy

Two works are considered to be the first examples of modern musicals as we know them today. Alfred Cellier’s Dorothy and Edward Jakobowski’s Erminie. I personally prefer Dorothy so I have chosen it for today’s forgotten musical. Dorothy is a music... See More »

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St George’s Day

April 23rd! St George’s day. Patron saint of England. Shakespeare’s birthday! Crowds thronging the streets wearing the red and white of St George drinking warm beer, special programmes on the radio, Shakespeare Night dinners! Not. Not a bloody... See More »

Forgotten Musicals - Leslie Stuart and Florodora

Leslie Stuart (1863–1928) was a British composer best known for his hugely successful contributions to late Victorian and Edwardian musical theatre. Born Thomas Barrett in Southport, he began his career as a church organist and conductor before... See More »

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Home Thoughts from Abroad

O, TO be in England Now that April 's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In... See More »

Forgotten Musicals - Wodehouse, Bolton and Kern - Oh Boy!

Jerome Kern (1885–1945) was a pivotal American composer who along with librettist Guy Bolton and lyricist P G Wodehouse helped transform musical theatre from the sort of Pirates and Princesses musicals we saw in Naughty Marietta into more... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Victor Herbert and Naughty Marietta

I try again to bring to life some of the great musicals of the past seldom seen on stage today. Victor Herbert (1859 – 1924) was an Irish-born American composer, best remembered as the father of American musical theatre. Born in Dublin, Ireland ,... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Sigmund Romberg and The New Moon

Sigmund Romberg (1887 – 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer renowned for his romantic operettas and musicals that bridged European traditions with Broadway’s golden age. Born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary to a Jewish family, Romberg showed early... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Lionel Monckton and Our Miss Gibbs

Continuing my exploration of forgotten musicals today we take a look at Edwardian England. Back in the days before the Great War the place for musicals in London was the Gaiety Theatre. Crowds flocked to the light witty musicals of the likes of... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Ivor Novello and Perchance to Dream

Ivor Novello 1893 - 1951 was a composer, songwriter, playwright, actor, and singer. He was in his time, during the first half of the 20th century, Britain’s most popular figures in theatre, film, and music. From the mid-1930s until his death,... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Paul Abraham and The Ball at the Savoy

I love musical theatre whether modern musicals, traditional musicals, operettas or light opera, or the various works that cross over between them. Many wonderful works however have become neglected over the years, so I am going to try and resurrect... See More »

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Forgotten Musicals - Rutland Boughton with William Sharp/Fiona Macleod and The Immortal Hour

William Sharp, 1855 – 1905, was a Scottish writer, poet, novelist, biographer, critic, and editor born in Paisley, near Glasgow. He began his literary career in the 1880s, producing poetry, biographies (including of figures like Percy Bysshe Shelley... See More »

Poets of a bygone age - Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet, humorist, and journalist known for blending witty comic verse with poignant social commentary. Born on May 23, 1799, in London, he was the son of a bookseller and publisher of Scottish descent. In 1815, s... See More »

Forgotten poets of a bygone age - Ozymandias by Horace Smith

You probably think you are going to hear about a traveller to an antique land, but Shelley isn’t of course a forgotten poet. Horace Smith on the other hand is. Smith 1779 - 1849 was an English poet, novelist, and humourist associated with the... See More »

Forgotten poets of a bygone age - Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough was an English Victorian poet born in 1819. He attended the prestigious Rugby School of Tom Brown’s Schooldays fame, where he excelled academically and athletically under the notorious headmaster Thomas Arnold, forming a lasting... See More »

O, to be in England

Not quite April yet, but a glorious spring day for a stroll yesterday, a meandering river, a green sward and a distant castle.

Traditional song from the North East of England

Not quite traditional as it was written by the prolific song writer Joe Wilson in 1858. To be sung to the tune of Nellie Grey. The song is interesting not just for its humour but also for the social context. Here is the first verse: KEEP YOUR... See More »

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Forgotten Poets of a Bygone Age - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blessed Damozel THE blessed Damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven: Her blue grave eyes were deeper much Than a deep water, even. She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven. Her robe, ungirt from... See More »

Forgotten poets of a bygone age - Henry Newbolt

Vitai Lampada ("The Torch of Life") Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. I always liked... See More »

Forgotten poets of a bygone age - Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aesthete, alcoholic and masochist Swinburne was one of the most acclaimed poets of his age even while the morality of his life was condemned. If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing... See More »

Forgotten poets of a bygone age - Leigh Hunt

A bit of Victorian morality from Leigh Hunt which I always liked: Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel... See More »

On the Death of Marie

I do like to post the occasional romantic poem and especially sonnets. Here is one from the great French sixteenth century poet Pierr de Ronsard with my attempt at a translation Comme on voyst sur la branche au moys de May la rose En sa belle... See More »

The Hireling Shepherd

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! Is Edward Fitzgerald’s rather romanticised version of the quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar... See More »

Another of Robert’s conquests

Sae flaxen were her ringlets, Her eyebrows of a darker hue, Bewitchingly o'er-arching Twa laughing een o' bonie blue. Her smiling, sae wyling, Wad make a wretch forget his woe! What pleasure, what treasure, Unto those rosy lips to grow! Such was my... See More »

What’s eating me?

Something has bitten me in a very odd pattern and a very odd place. How on earth did it get there? It’s freezing November there’s no biting insects around.

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Qualified for Australia

Since moving from Leicester Tigers to Western Force it looks like he has settled on Australia for his future. He never got a call up for England and considering the current plight of rugby in Australia they could do with a top class winger who could... See More »

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