G & S peppered my school days as the sort of performance the "Parents Association" would put on in school. I do remember my embarassement as a teen seeing my father made-up, and dressed for some reason a kilt, singing songs by the victorian equivalent of Monty Python. Awful experience!
G & S peppered my school days as the sort of performance the "Parents Association" would put on in school. I do remember my embarassement as a teen seeing my father made-up, and dressed for some reason a kilt, singing songs by the victorian equivalent of Monty Python. Awful experience!
In the Boston area, I played and conducted G&S with the New England Gilbert and Sullivan Society - NEGASS. Once a bunch of us went to hear the Cape Cod Symphony conducted by Royston Nash, THE conductor of the D'Oylye Carte Opera Company who did all the definitive performances of G&S in England. At the reception, my friends embarrassingly introduced me to him as a conductor of G&S. He kindly asked if I had conducted Iolanthe. It was the one show I had conducted at that point so I answered yes. He replied, "Then you've done the best of them."
G & S peppered my school days as the sort of performance the "Parents Association" would put on in school. I do remember my embarassement as a teen seeing my father made-up, and dressed for some reason a kilt, singing songs by the victorian equivalent of Monty Python. Awful experience!
In the Boston area, I played and conducted G&S with the New England Gilbert and Sullivan Society - NEGASS. Once a bunch of us went to hear the Cape Cod Symphony conducted by Royston Nash, THE conductor of the D'Oylye Carte Opera Company who did all the definitive performances of G&S in England. At the reception, my friends embarrassingly introduced me to him as a conductor of G&S. He kindly asked if I had conducted Iolanthe. It was the one show I had conducted at that point so I answered yes. He replied, "Then you've done the best of them."