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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Lupang Hinirang, Toad of Toad Hall, Plays with incidental music, The Starlight Express, Peer Gynt, L'Arlesienne, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, The Foresters, The Tempest, The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture, The Ruins of Athens, The Crown of India, Kuolema, Rosamunde, Hamlet, Valse triste, An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands, Saga-Drom, Le piege de Meduse, Moderen, Diarmuid and Grania, Karelia Suite, Egmont, Pan and Syrinx, Thamos, King of Egypt, Aladdin, Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, Le voyageur sans bagage, Pelleas et Melisande, Wedding March, Twigs, At the Bier of a Young Artist, The Wasps, The Comedians, Masques et bergamasques, King Stephen, There are seven that pull the thread, Alceste, Turkish March, Sigurd Jorsalfar, The Lark, Masquerade, The Indian Queen, King Christian II Suite, Music for a while, The Alchemist, Helene, Abdelazer, Katyusha's song, Where the Rainbow Ends. Excerpt: This is an incomplete list of plays for which incidental music has been written. A very large number of such works have been written, and to limit the size of this article, only items where the composer and/or the playwright have their own Wikipedia article should be included. 1949 music by Henri Sauguet "The Starlight Express" is a children's play by Violet Pearn, based on the imaginative novel "A Prisoner in Fairyland" by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915. The Starlight Express: cover from 1916 On 9 November 1915 Sir Edward Elgar was invited by Robin Legge, music critic of The Daily Telegraph, to write the music for a children's fantasy play to be produced at the Kingsway Theatre that Christmas. The play was "The Starlight Express," an adaptation of a novel by Algernon Blackwood called "A Prisoner in Fairyland," by...
