Re: GG: Slaughterhouse 5

[Arin Murphy <la_murph@alcor.concordia.ca>]

Tim:

Being a Savoyard myself, you can bet I've been on the lookout for 
anything Gould had to do with G&S. Unfortunately, the closest I've gotten 
so far is an oblique mention in an essay of Gould's called _L'Esprit de 
Jeunesse, et de Corps, et d'Art_ (Spirit of Youth, Body and Art):

	`Just as in earlier, simpler times, young ladies of good breeding 
found the gentle airs of Mr Sullivan's operettas a demurely secular 
embroidering of the neo-Mendelssohnian chorale, which codified Methodist 
music making in the home....' (Page, 407)

(What, did Gilbert not have anything to do with those operettas?)

So there you have it. And while I haven't seen the movie and won't any 
time soon (not having VCR is a terrible thing), I can guess that what you 
heard might have been `Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here', which of course 
is sung to the music of `With Cat-Like Tread' from _The Pirates of 
Penzance_. It's the only thing I know which is G&S but not really, which 
is sung far and wide without people knowing what they're actually singing. I 
have no clue what the scene was like, so I can't say for sure. But that's 
a guess for you.

Glad you found my info entertaining!



Arin Murphy
Concordia University, Montreal
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