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from "The Mikado" or 'The town of Titipu"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by William Schwenck Gilbert
Arrangement for Pianoforte by George Lowell Tracy
Origin : https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nc01.ark:/13960/t13n35p54?urlappend=%3Bseq=43
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The reference to Pooh-Bah is more literary than musical. Indeed, Pooh-Bah's omnipotence, similar to that of the efficient Baxter, appears in an unsung part of the work. But we couldn't resist including another excerpt from Gilbert and Sullivan.
There is probably no more depressing experience in the world than the process of engaging furnished apartments. Those who let furnished apartments seem to take no joy in the act. Like Pooh-Bah, they do it, but it revolts them.
Psmith in the City. 3 The New Era Begins
This reference comes from the Annotations compiled in Madame Eulalie's site
'[...] His lordship's secretary he calls himself, but he's really everything rolled into one like the man in the play.'
Ashe, searching in his dramatic memories for such a person in a play, inquired if Miss Willoughby meant Pooh Bah in the 'Mikado', of which there had been a revival in London recently. Miss Willoughby did mean Pooh Bah.
Something Fresh. Chapter 5.V
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