Frank Osmond Carr (23 April 1858–29 August 1916), known as F. Osmond Carr was an English composer of musical comedy and operetta. He was born in Bradford, Yorks. He died in Uxbridge, Middlesex. April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: English, english The language of English started in Europe and came to the US with the British immigrants. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Statistics Population: 293,717 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE165325 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Ambulance service: Yorkshire... Yorkshire is the largest traditional county of England, covering some 6,000 sq. ... Uxbridge is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London, England. ... Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest (after Rutland). ...

Life and career

Carr's first produced work (with lyricist Arthur Ropes) was the burlesque Faddimir, or the Triumph of Orthodoxy in 1889, which gained the notice of producer George Edwardes. Edwardes began to commission songs from Carr and Ropes, and soon, all the the songs for a burlesque of Joan of Arc, and soon after that, the score for In Town (1892). This was followed by successful Morocco Bound (1893), a piece which crystallized the music-hall influenced "variety musical" form, and the musical comedy Go-Bang, both for producer Fred Harris. George Edwardes (d. ...

1n 1894, Edwardes engaged Carr to collaborate with W. S. Gilbert (then estranged from Arthur Sullivan) on the comic opera His Excellency. Carr's musicals in the late 1890s were unsuccessful, and the composer never regained his early popularity. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist and librettist best known for his operatic collaborations with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. ... Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (May 13, 1842 – November 22, 1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert. ... Comic opera is a subcategory of opera, and denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature. ...

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