Musical Theatre’s Most Iconic Duo | The Life & Times of Arthur Sullivan

Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 65% OFF your subscription ➡️Here: Arthur Sullivan was one of those kids that made everyone hate themselves because while his friends were learning how to carry the one, he composed an anthem about weeping for Jerusalem on the shores of Babylon and he could play all of the instruments himself. He got a Mendelssohn scholarship at 14 and by the time he graduated high school he was playing the equivalent of Madison Square Garden. Now he’s writing for the Queen, he’s adapting Shakespeare and Tennyson, Britain kinda missed the boat for Romantic music, but now they’ve got less-racist Wagner on the rise and they want the world to know. Only problem was he was broke. So Sullivan does what any respectable artist would and s