You are Really Awfully into Light Operetta.

Though you insist that Haydn

You cannot be abidin’,

And Beethoven, you claim,

Did not deserve his fame,

Plus you declare that Mendelssohn,

Of all your favourites, isn’t one,

And all the stuff of Handel

To mods can’t light a candle,

While mournful things by Brahms

Just have you up in arms,

And when ‘Schubert’ is said to you

You’ll ‘Bless you!’, as to an ‘Achoo!’

Things Sousa, Strauss and Sullivan

You will consign to nearest bin;

Not often Bach you care to do,

And Offenbach you steer clear, too? …

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My latest listening in the car – this cost me R10-00 at the local flea market. The whole operetta done in English. Superbly sung and great fun.

Well, there you’re wrong, I must profess,

So what you know of his, just guess?

‘Infernal Gallop’, of great fame,

(Though few may call it by that name);

From ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’,

With many merry scenes unfurled,

  This double affirmation of ability,

  Which tends to need considerable agility,

Comes with that dance to end the show …

Which as the ‘Can Can’ you will know!

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