Event

Particularly Rapid Unintelligible Patter: Gilbert & Sullivan Patter Songs

Sunday, November 13, 2022
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Petty Auditorium

Patter songs—songs where the words fly by at high speed! Baritone Kingsley Day sings all 18 that Gilbert & Sullivan wrote, along with several other G&S songs by a quartet of assisting vocalists.

Enjoy an afternoon of silly, catchy tunes that have delighted audiences over time. The patter songs were created for the parts typically played by George Grossmith, who originated such G&S roles as Ko-Ko in The Mikado and the Modern Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance. Kingsley has performed all of the patter parts in staged productions and now reprises them all in concert.