For He Is An Englishman - HMS Pinafore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Performs Gilbert & Sullivan's The HMS Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor

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• Gilbert
• Sullivan
• For
• He
• Is
• An
• Englishman

[yanliechocki]

Side Show Bob rulez

[MrRainbowDuck]

... just a point to both @Joebycool the origional score is staccato

[SkullOfYorick]

@mrExcellent101 England has been in a state of terminal decline since 1914. Our public education is terrible. We have similar legislation restricting ancient civil liberties. Our tax rates are punitive. Crime is out of control. We have our laws imposed by the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. And we have widespread unemployment, while immigrants flood in from Africa, Arabia and eastern Europe. Also, public transport is expensive and inconvenient. Come, and see for yourself!

[mrExcellent101]

Love this, I wish I was an Englishman. I guess being American is the next best thing.

[P1B1U1H1]

@Joebycool Prussian & Russian rhyme no matter how you look at it.

[AmericanEvita]

@Joebycool Donald Adams' style, you mean, same with John Reed. They were both very humorous actor-singers and I like them but for something as beautiful sounding as this anthem "For He Is An Englishman" which concludes HMS Pinafore, a nice smooth trill rather than the staccato "e-e-e-e-englishman" is so much better. This disjointed style was an "old school" technique. Today's modern singers rarely do it that way and most use a smooth trill. I really much prefer a trill, just sounds better.

[Joebycool]

@AmericanEvita It's not necessary, the disjointed nature is very stylistic and evokes the context... it's an acting technique, not the lack of a voice technique.

[AmericanEvita]

I love the D'Oyly Carte Opera. They've produced so many terrific Gilbert & Sullivan operettas for more than 40 years. I love this patriotic British anthem type song but I dislike that there is no use of smooth vocal trill for the part "E-e-e-e-e-Englishman". Rather than sounding like he has the hiccups, he could easily just smoothly trill through that!