The Usher's Charge


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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.
In 1890, Gilbert produced Songs of a Savoyard, (the source of this Weekly Poem), a volume of sixty-nine detached lyrics from the Savoy Operas, each with a new title, and some of them slightly reworded to account for the changed context. - Summary by Wikipedia (0 hr 7 min)

Chapters

The Usher's Charge - Read by BK 1:14 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Usher's Charge - Read by BLT 0:57 Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
The Usher's Charge - Read by DL 1:03 Read by David Lawrence
The Usher's Charge - Read by GG 1:36 Read by Greg Giordano
The Usher's Charge - Read by JCB 1:12 Read by Jason in Panama
The Usher's Charge - Read by LAH 1:12 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Usher's Charge - Read by LLW 1:18 Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
The Usher's Charge - Read by MSD 1:04 Read by Matthew Datcher
The Usher's Charge - Read by TP 0:59 Read by Tomas Peter