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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.
'[...] 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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