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Jan. 26th, 2004 06:47 pmThe following is from the December 1929 issue of the Gilbert & Sullivan Journal. We all already knew this, but it was incredibly cool to see the actual article.
The Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which has been in existence for some three years, has recently been reconstituted as the Oxford University Savoy Opera Club, affiliated as a branch of the parent society in London. At the present time it numbers about sixty members, who are of necessity restricted to the men's colleges at present.
Fortnightly meetings have been held during the last two terms at various colleges in rotation and at each it has been the custom to render one item from each of the thirteen operas. The Club has adopted as its anthem—not without some reason—the trio from Princess Ida commencing "Gently, gently, evidently," down to the words "we've enlarged our minds." This is sung at the beginning and end of each meeting. In the intervals at half-time there is a round of "spotting" quotations and other forms of impromptu examinations. -E.R.S.
I so wish that copies of the journal were still obtainable, other than having to sit and look at them in the music library after calling them up from the NRLF (which takes two days, by the way).
The Oxford University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which has been in existence for some three years, has recently been reconstituted as the Oxford University Savoy Opera Club, affiliated as a branch of the parent society in London. At the present time it numbers about sixty members, who are of necessity restricted to the men's colleges at present.
Fortnightly meetings have been held during the last two terms at various colleges in rotation and at each it has been the custom to render one item from each of the thirteen operas. The Club has adopted as its anthem—not without some reason—the trio from Princess Ida commencing "Gently, gently, evidently," down to the words "we've enlarged our minds." This is sung at the beginning and end of each meeting. In the intervals at half-time there is a round of "spotting" quotations and other forms of impromptu examinations. -E.R.S.
I so wish that copies of the journal were still obtainable, other than having to sit and look at them in the music library after calling them up from the NRLF (which takes two days, by the way).
