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"The Rose Maid" (1908)

Music by Bruno Granichstaedten (1879 - 1944)
Lyrics by Robert B. Smith

ACT I   -   Salon in Barchester House, London.

  • Overture
  • No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "When music is lively and all hearts are gay ... Dance on! in merry revelry.  As long as the lights burn and music will play..."
  • No. 2 - Song - Duke and Chorus - "When friends are gathered 'round, I feel that life's not a dream but real;  and ev'ry happy laughter peal is like old wine to me..."
  • No. 3 - Duet - Bertie and Hilda - "Can you picture what the bliss is for a husband and a wife, with just bread and cheese and kisses and a plain domestic life? ..."
  • No. 4 - Duet - Daphne and Bertie - "In gay oriental attire arrayed, high up on a pedestal displayed a little China maid ... And not far away is a heart within..."
  • No. 5 - Duet - Daphne and Chorus - "Roses white or roses red in course of time must perish;  as before our eyes they shed the lovliness we cherish..."
  • No. 6 - Song - Duke and Chorus - "When life seems a bore and the days drag along, when you can't pursue a road but it ends all wrong..."
  • No. 7 - Telephone Song - "Here is a situation needing investigation, ponder it well!  Think it over, think it over!  Where can we get information? ..."
  • No. 8 - Finale Act I - Duke, Chorus and others - "I have lived free as air, I have loved beyond compare, I have found life is a treasure, one round of pleasure..."

ACT II   -   At Ostend - one week later.

Items 2, 12 and 14 were written by Raymond W. Peck, and composed by Robert Hood Bowers.
The first part of item no. 9 was composed by Robert Hood Bowers.

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