About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: 1893 compositions, 1893 musicals, 1893 operas, 1893 songs, Musical groups established in 1893, Record labels established in 1893, Symphony No. 9, Falstaff, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Utopia, Limited, Hansel und Gretel, Jane Annie, Manon Lescaut, Piano Concerto No. 3, Requiem, A Gaiety Girl, Gnossiennes, Symphony No. 6, Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119, The Cat Came Back, Purdue Varsity Glee Club, Mr. Jericho, Aleko, Panjandrum, Choucoune, Morocco Bound, The Liberty Bell, The Black Knight, Little Christopher Columbus, 1492 Up To Date, Karelia Suite, Capet Quartet, Violin Sonatina, The Rock, String Quartet No. 12, Carl Lindstrom Company, Madame Chrysantheme, I Medici, Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118, The Idea, The Wicklow Postman, Suite No. 1, Trio elegiaque No. 2, Symphony No. 4, L'attaque du moulin, String Quintet No. 3, Oh! Mr Porter, Manhattan Beach, Signa, Entry March of the Boyars. Excerpt: Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. Although it did not achieve the success of their earlier productions, the opera was profitable. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and particularly the idea that a bankrupt company could leave creditors unpaid without any liability on the part of its owners. It also lampoons the "Stock Company Act" by imagining the absurd convergence of natural persons (or sovereign nations) with legal commercial entities under the limited companies laws. In addition, it mocks the conceits of the late 19th-century British Empire and several of the nation's beloved institutions. In mocking the adoption by a "barbaric" country of the cultural values of an "advanced...
