A Pair of Limericks Music by Louis Mander Verse by Stephen Fry NewMusicShelf www.newmusicshelf.com
Contents Texts ...........................................................................................iv 1. The Tenor from Tring ............................................................1 2. A Basso Profundo Called Prebble .........................................18 About the Composer ...................................................................10
A Basso Profundo Called Prebble A basso profundo called Prebble Thought himself quite the rebel. Though warned it was silly, He lubed up with chili, And now he sings as a treble!
About the work:
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The Tenor from Tring A Wagnerian tenor from Tring, Liked to sit on the toilet and sing, After egg mayonnaise, He’d sit there for days And push out the whole of the Ring!
These two short songs A Pair of Limericks, are in a way, an homage to the piquant chansons of Francis Poulenc; with their surface-level mischief and underlying wry wit. Never taken too seriously, this rather cheeky melange of Stephen Fry’s witty words and Louis Mander’s memorable music make a refreshing sorbet to standard programme of song repertoire, or as an encore, or simply for enjoyment at home!
Andante humoristico = 59 electrically A cantando ed espress Wag ner i an ten or from Tring, a Wag ped sim 3 ner i an ten or from Tring Liked to 6 TheTenor fromTring Copyright © 2020 Fry & Mander All Rights Reserved STEPHEN FRY LOUIS MANDER (2020) for Elliott
In broad marchtempo = 60 ritenuto sempre con ped atempo with vulgarity 6 A 9 A Basso Profundo Called Prebble Copyright © 2020 Fry & Mander All Rights Reserved STEPHEN FRY LOUIS MANDER (2020) for Paul Sheehan
About the Composer
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British composer Louis Mander trained at The Royal College of Music in London and Bir mingham University. His music is internationally performed and includes a prolific output of chamber opera, vocal music, chamber music, concerti and music for film. He has collaborated with numerous writers and librettists including the actor & writer Stephen Fry, with whom he created the chamber opera The Life to Come, an adaptation of EM Forster’s exotic gay novella. He has most recently collaborated with the British poet Pam Ayres on a new musical based on J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which is published by Nick Hern Publications. Singers and musicians alike are passionately engaged with Mander’s music, and most recently international baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside have taken up his song cycle A Rondel of Gloucestershire in recital
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