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| | Sir Arthur Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | David Thomson asserts that Sullivan, with the likes of Sterndale Bennet, Parry, Stanford, and Mackenzie, is representative of the period's emerging "particularly English school of music," which paralleled the renewed power of art and art criticism during the mid-Victorian era (Penguin's England in the Nineteenth Century, 117). |
| | Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, perhaps more than any other vessel, have carried a sense of Victorian attitudes through the twentieth century, and are invaluable as a source of insight into both middle class entertainment of the period and the modes of political and social satire that such popular amusement adopted. |
| | There is no question that the anthemic nature of Sullivan's compositions for Gilbert carried satire to the widest possible audience, as songs gently mocking luminaries from Oscar Wilde to Disraeli and Gladstone echoed through opera houses, school theaters, and local pubs. |
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