Date:         Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:00:41 -0400
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Subject:      Re: Lysistrata Overture
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I just played it.  No worm  (nor WERM).

Steve

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture


> Steven Smolian wrote:
>> I've a US pathe record no later than 1920. It contains  a "Lysistrata 
>> Overture" Parts 1 & 2. No composer.  It's performed by the Pathe Freres 
>> Orchestra.  It's probably pressed from French masters.
>>
>> Any idea who the composer might be?
>>
>> Steve Smolian
>>
> Of course, it may be a concert piece or an Ouverture to incidentla music 
> or another sort of work. But if it is opera, the candidates according to 
> the Dictionary Catalogue of Operas and Operettas would be Feautrier (1855) 
> and P. Lincke (1874), though the latter is probably German.
>
> Mike
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