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Amanda Riddell
May 31, 2024
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For the songwriters... from what I understand, Sullivan wrote tunes as tunes, and then invented large chunks of the accompaniment as he was rehearsing and orchestrating. That's very different to R&H, where neither was too involved in rehearsals.

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