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December 2011
I finish this year in Germany with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and three New Year programmes celebrating the Pomp and Circumstance in British Music. Elgar, Walton, Britten and of course Gilbert and Sullivan – I shall be singing songs and duets with Dame Felicity Lott.
Next April I return to Vancouver for performances of Trial by Jury with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey – performances 28th, 29th and 30th April.
“An Acquired Taste” – a G&S entertainment I wrote with Janis Kelly and Wyn Davies three years ago for the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona will have two performances at the Buxton Festival on 12th and 17th July – original cast returns!
And now, for the ultimate stocking filler....
“They’d none of ‘em be missed”
--here’s a source of innocent merriment for all G&S fans – The Stage August 2008
--this lavishly-illustrated book—The Stage
--with a combination of waspish wit and obvious genuine respect for the original, the result is a delightful couple of hours chortling to oneself—The Stage
--a delightful volume, and I cannot imagine any G&S enthusiast who would not want to have a copy—Gilbert and Sullivan News Spring 2008-08-30
--it is also an amusing review of recent political scandal and sleaze –John Allison in The Sunday Telegraph 24 February 2008
I first sang Ko-Ko for English National Opera in 1988, and to celebrate my first 20 years, I have cast my mind back over some of those ‘Society Offenders’ whom I have included; 192 pages in full colour! – Written with ASH Smyth and published by Pallas Athene, it was launched three years ago; twenty years of my lists are condensed into a dozen chapters, and there are guest lists – Tim Rice, Jeff Randall and the great American poet John Hollander are among those who have offered their parodies, as well as many well loved G&S enthusiasts. Nicholas Garland has allowed me to reprint one of his famous cartoons of Margaret Thatcher with her ‘list,’ and there are many other illustrations and cartoons – I promise you, there are some fascinating surprises!
Cover price is £12.99, but signed copies are available from me at £8.00 INCLUDING postage and packing (UK); ( ISBN 978 1 84368 036 9).
Please send a cheque for £8.00 (payable to Richard Suart) together with your name and address to:
Richard Suart
29 Yardley Park Road,
Tonbridge
Kent
TN9 1NB
Additional copies at £5.00 each - and, if you like, let me know how you would wish me to sign them!
The book is now on sale in the USA as well.
Incidentally I would just like to say how utterly delighted I am to be the Bristol Gilbert & Sullivan Operatic Society’s first Patron – this is a very vibrant group with enthusiasm and ability – I went to see their production of The Pirates of Penzance two years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it – last year’s Patience was also great fun and beautifully presented, both musically and dramatically; next year their production will be Iolanthe.
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