Date:Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:24:26 -0400
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From:"Michael H. Gray" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:Re: Lysistrata Overture
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Steven Smolian wrote:
> I just played it. No worm (nor WERM).
>
> Steve
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Richter" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Lysistrata Overture
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>> 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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That would be Paul Lincke's Lysistrata ... several references show up in
http://www.dismarc.org/index.php
Mike Gray