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URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/iolanthe-by-gilbert-and-sullivan-co
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SUMMARY:Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan (Concert Version)
DESCRIPTION:The CSU Summer Conducting Seminar continues its fun tradition o
 f presenting a delightful concert version of a popular operetta or Broadwa
 y musical. The project serves as the master’s thesis for working music e
 ducators from around the world who participate in the seminar for three co
 nsecutive summers.\n\nMusical direction by Wes Kenney\nStage direction by 
 Brian Leudloff\nStudent conductors:\n\n 	Stephanie Bivins\n 	Andrew Hill\n
  	Rachael Napper\n 	Payden Nichols\n 	Patrick Ordway\n 	Amanda Young\n\nAb
 out the operetta\n"Iolanthe\," or "The Peer and the Peri\," opened at the 
 Savoy Theatre on November 25\, 1882\, three nights after the final perform
 ance of Patience at the same theatre\, and ran for 398 performances.\n\nGi
 lbert had taken potshots at the aristocracy before\, but in this "fairy op
 era\," the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective\, p
 rivileged\, and dim-witted. The political party system and other instituti
 ons also come in for a dose of satire. Yet\, both author and composer mana
 ged to couch the criticism among such bouncy\, amiable absurdities that ar
 e all received as good fun.\n\nBoth Gilbert and Sullivan were at the heigh
 t of their creative powers in 1882\, and many people feel that Iolanthe\, 
 their seventh work together\, is the most perfect of their collaborations.
 \n\nStrephon\, an Arcadian shepherd\, wants to marry Phyllis\, a Ward of C
 hancery. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half fairy (his upper half
  — his legs are mortal!) and when she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly 
 young woman\, she assumes the worst. But her "rival" turns out to be none 
 other than Strephon's own mother\, Iolanthe\, a fairy — fairies never gr
 ow old.\n\nBut Phyllis' guardian\, the Lord Chancellor\, and half the peer
 s in the House of Lords are sighing after her. Soon the peers and the fair
 ies are virtually at war\, and long friendships are nearly torn asunder. B
 ut all is happily sorted out\, thanks to the "subtleties of the legal mind
 ."\n\nDescription from gsarchive.net/iolanthe
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LOCATION:Griffin Concert Hall\, University Center for the Arts\, 1400 Remin
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