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Arthur Seymour Sullivan

London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

By Ray Cavanaugh

Fall 2025

May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment

If asked to name a writer of Irish background, many of us could rattle off a half-dozen names like we were reciting our date of birth. But if asked to name an Irish composer, then most of us would begin to hesitate. Our eyes would blink, our lips would curl, our heads would tilt while the brain struggles to process the mustier files in our index of knowledge. Surely there must … [Read more...] about London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

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