Oscar Wilde plays a semi-prominent role in both Gilbert and Sullivan history and fop history (indeed, the former because of the latter) and so it was more or less inevitable that he should find himself drawn into all of this. G & S, after writing their grand fopera, Patience, hired Wilde to go around America and introduce that continent to the advanced aesthetic notions of the time.
The real question is, what sort of Dandy Wilde was. He was in the third or so wave of English dandyism, which had had time to learn from the philosophical dandyism of Baudelaire and the Grey Men of Dickens, but apparently decided that it was time to get back to the Brummell basics of Looking Fabulous and Talking Smack.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
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The orchestra is assembled, but as Peter prepares himself for his conducting debut against Hans von Bulow, there is the small matter of a giddily excited Prussian monarch flautist to be dealt with. This looks like a job for THE RAMPAL!!
– Geoff and The Count
As far as I know, Rampal was not given to wearing novelty flute tee-shirts. But, if any body of specialized musical terminology is worthy of the industry, it is the flute. To consider:
Tongue Ram, Flute Slap, Single and Double Tonguing, Curved Headjoint, Slap Tongue, Lip Attack, Flutter Tonguing, lip pizz, residual fast tonguing, whistling in emboucure hole…
All of those are totally real.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
