In 1879, Mr. Sousa conducted an amateur theatrical production of the new comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore, in Philadelphia. He says, in his memoirs (Marching Along, published in 1928, book report coming soon): The immediate success of Pinafore was, to some extent, due to an admirable topical joke. Just before it was produced, […]
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