Arthur Sullivan cytaty

Arthur Seymour Sullivan – angielski kompozytor, współtwórca operetek, spośród których najpopularniejsze są H.M.S. Pinafore, Piraci z Penzance i Mikado. Ponadto twórca oper, dzieł symfonicznych oraz chorałów, baletów, ballad itp. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Maj 1842 – 22. Listopad 1900
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Arthur Sullivan: Cytaty po angielsku

“After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon.”

Arthur Sullivan

Quoted in Thomas F. Dunhill Sullivan's Comic Operas: A Critical Appreciation (London: Edward Arnold, 1928) p. 182.
On being accused of plagiarism.

“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”

Arthur Sullivan

Quoted in The Musical Times, February 1909; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944 (London: Novello, 1947) vol. 1, p. 267.

“I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments – astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever! … I think it is the most wonderful thing that I have ever experienced, and I congratulate you with all my heart on this wonderful discovery.”

Arthur Sullivan

A message on a phonograph cylinder, recorded by Arthur Sullivan at a demonstration of Thomas Edison's phonograph in London on 5 October 1888; cited from Michael Chanan Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music (London: Verso, 1995) p. 26. See also "Historic Sullivan Recordings" http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/sullivan/html/historic.html at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive; and Very Early Recorded Sound http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/very-early-recorded-sound.htm at the National Historical Park website. The recording was issued on CD by the British Library (Voices of History 2: NSACD 19-20, 2005).

“Goss and Bennett…trained him to make Europe yawn; and he took advantage of their training to make London and New York laugh and whistle.”

Arthur Sullivan

George Bernard Shaw, in The Scots Observer, September 6, 1890; cited from Dan H. Laurence (ed.) Shaw's Music (London: The Bodley Head, 1989) vol. 2, p. 174.
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