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"Her Little Highness" (1913)

Music by Reginald de Koven (1859 - 1920)
Book and Lyrics by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf

ACT I   -   Throne Room of the Palace at Mostar, Herzogovina.

ACT II   -   Living Room of an Apartment in Amsterdam Avenue, New York.   (Two months later)

ACT III   -   Grounds of the Lauman Residence, Irvington-on-Hudson.   (The following evening)

  • No. 15 - Opening Ensemble - "The night is young and so are we (and so are we), let songs be sung of jollity (of jollity);  Soon moons grow cold and gray the sea..."
  • No. 16 - Romanza - Queen and Chorus - "Sad is she! .. Native land, there you lie far across the sea where your waving trees bent by each breeze now beckon me."
  • No. 17 - Czardas
  • No. 18 - Song - Cosaca and Chorus - "The Ladies, Lord bless 'em!  We love to caress 'em!  They're put upon earth for us men!  There's something about 'em..."
  • No. 19 - Song - Trainor and Men - "Gentlemen, lift your glasses.  We're going to chat and think, and think!  Of chatting the use is, as an excuse to drink..."
  • No. 20 - Finale Act III - "It is the Queen!  It is the Queen!  The only one I love!  And it's drink, drink, drink to our nation; and drink, drink, drink to our Queen! ..."

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