http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/other_sullivan/html/recordings/sullivan.mp3
The link above will take you to the Gilbert and Sullivan Archives page featuring a recording from October 5, 1888 of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan was in attendance at a Phonograph Party held by Mr. George Gouraud, featuring the new phonograph of Thomas Edison. There has been some question about the validity of this recording, but from what I have found, these questions have not been sufficient enough to cause the removal of it from the Archives. It is a wonderful piece of history, to hear the actual voice of a Victorian composer.
- Shane Magargal
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