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Thanks for your attention to this article - it helps to have another perspective, particularly one from the musicals / G&S point of view, and not the "HEY MY HIGH SCHOOL DID THAT!" point of view. Unfortunatly, I don't know much more about the differences between the 1939 "The Hot Mikado" and the 1995 "Hot Mikado", but I'm hoping my response on the talk page for the article will alleviate some tension as far as the high school productions go. Thanks again. QBKooky 18:46, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Question
Hi Ssilvers. I saw your comment at Talk:Mount Ararat. Where exactly would you like the ref to Iolanthe to be worked in? Cheers. —Khoikhoi 04:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, I see you got it to work! Sorry for my late reply, I've been pretty busy. Regards, —Khoikhoi 05:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- I think it looks great. Keep up the good work. —Khoikhoi 01:08, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Cock-eyed
Thanks for your addition to the article- I think that may well save it from deletion, as it looks like the source you provided is very relevant!.
- You're welcome. Happy to help! :-) Ssilvers 00:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Comic opera
- Thanks for your corrections. There could be more links, and a bibliography is necessary. Yours, (meladina 13:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC))
Piano Bar
Hi, Ssilvers, I am Ron Kert from Tampa, FL (wikipedia user-name "ronkert"). Thank You for your additions to the "Piano Bar" article that I submitted. I also am an amatuer singer, and a "piano bar junkie". Although I enjoyed "La Boheme" and love most types of music, I sing songs from these genres: "Standards" from the 1920's to 1950's, 50's and 60's Rock'n'Roll, some 70's and 80's light Rock and Rock ballads, Blues, a couple of show tunes, a few Country tunes. I'm currently on one of my bi-annual out-of-state "piano bar" vacations in the DC / northern Virginia area.
Savoyards
Good work. Several of these performers are familiar to me because of the film Topsy Turvy, wihch I've seen at least half a dozen times. They needed to be included in Wikipedia. Charivari 02:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
AfD
Thanks for this info, Marc: For Proposed deletion (for articles whose deletion is expected to be uncontroversial), you put {{subst:prod|reason}} at the top of the article. If no one removes the {{prod}} template within five days, an admin will check to see if the proposed reason is valid, and assuming s/he agrees, will delete the article. If a {{prod}} turns out to be controversial, it can still be deleted using the process described at WP:AFD. Basically, a "talk page" gets set up, and people vote. After about a week, an administrator will delete the article if there is a rough consensus (not necessarily unanimity) that it should be deleted.
Golden Legend
Saw your additions and copy edits. Thanks. I had considered adding specific information about the Hyperion release (it is the first full length recording), but wasn't sure it was appropriate. I'll probably be doing some similar work on other compositions by Sullivan. Shsilver 19:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Good, that's definitely something that Wikipedia is currently missing. You certainly can cite to Marc's discography and describe notable professional recordings of these works. In the past couple of decades, largely because of the efforts of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, Sullivan's serious music has begun to creep out of obscurity. --Ssilvers 19:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Grundy
Immensely flattered to be invited to help with the Grundy piece, but (i) it looks jolly good to me, and (ii) you plainly know at least thirty-seven times more about Grundy than I do. I salute you. Tim riley 20:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Mountebanks; Major article template, etc.
Thanks for the Song list! Added in character names whilst I was at it. Also, I've done a tweak to Template:Gilbert and Sullivan - That look good to you? Adam Cuerden 23:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Malcolm Sargent
It turned out very well. About the only gap is that his non-G&S recordings are not covered, but I'm sure someone else will get to it. I didn't know about that 1936 interview.
Did you ever hear the old joke about Sargent? Supposedly he gets into a cab. The driver says, "Where to?" Sargent says, "It doesn't matter; they want me everywhere." Marc Shepherd 13:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Mazeppa
- Thanks for being helpful. My English music books used Mazeppa, Maria, Andrei, Kochubey (Kochubey is not a Russian, but Tatar name). (meladina 16:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC))
Meh, thanks a bundle, I'm a moron. I should never have forgotten about G+S. Thanks also for slicing up some of my more grotesquely long sentences the other day. I'm on a bit of drive to get the article up to GA standard, so thanks for all the help. Cheers, Moreschi 16:37, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Patricia Leonard
I'm finished with her bio, and that concludes my project to input DOC performers into Wikipedia.
- Congratulations! You took this a lot farther than I ever imagined it would go. Marc Shepherd 19:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Kashchey the Immortal (opera)
Thanks for the help; I've just finished off the copy-editing. Cheers, Moreschi 19:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Early British Musicals
Thanks for the messages. I had only the briefest look after your first, but it all looked like great stuff. (I should say that I don't have any great expertise in this area, though). I'm currently on holiday in Crete and using my host's PC intermittently to check email and such, so haven't any more time right now, but I'll take a longer look after I get back home next Wednesday.
I'd still favour changing the redirect from Musical comedy to Musical theatre into a Musical comedy article - as I said on the latter's talk page, there are an awful lot of links to the redirect, which must mean something, and it would be interesting to try to define musical comedy as a genre with a finite life. No doubt there are books about this!
Anyway, as I say, great stuff. Hope the Buxton trip was worth it. --GuillaumeTell 07:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Nice work! Will browse about when I have a bit more time, and comment in the talk pages for the various ones - University has restarted. I could probably do A Welsh Sunset, if not commentary on the music, though I must say I dislike the plot a bit - trying so very hard to jerk pointless tears. Adam Cuerden talk 10:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
This is starting to look like a viable article, but I'm not quite sure what next. Any advice? Adam Cuerden talk 16:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- I did a thorough copy edit on it. We crossed paths a little, but I got your Carpet Quarrel stuff in now. See if there are any other of your changes from today that I missed. What you need to do next is go through all the hidden refs and put the stuff in that you mention. I did a couple of them for you. -- Ssilvers 18:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Sam, did you read the section above this one fully? Because I commented on the curtain raisers and other Savoy Operas there. Adam Cuerden talk 22:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, sorry. Thanks for looking them over -- you didn't find any typos or other obvious errors? I agree that the plot summaries of most of them could be expanded, but I figure it at least got a "start" article up that gives an idea, and where there is a libretto available, I linked to it, so anyone energetic can expand it. In some cases, there is no libretto available online, so I couldn't expand beyond what the "curtain raiser" article already had. Yeah, A Welsh Sunset is so sad that I can't believe the audience would then want to see Iolanthe! What was DOC thinking? LOL!! BTW, what the heck do you study anyhow? -- Ssilvers 22:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
A Welsh Sunset is very sad, but it's sad in a rather manipulative way that rankles with me a bit. Though I can't help but admit it's powerful and has good characterisation, but it's all build up for the ending horror. It's well-crafted, has some good lyrics, but why on earth did they think it was a good idea in the first place?
P.S. Biology. Adam Cuerden talk 23:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
G&S
Thanks very much - I'm actually planning on writing up a few articles about some of the lesser Savoyards, as well as a couple of early G&S creators that really ought to be here (Frank Thornton, Fred Sullivan, and Selina Dolaro spring to mind). Hopefully I'll get to that later today. --AlbertHerring 17:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- Welcome to the project. -- Ssilvers 18:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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