Alonzo (cat) Alonzo (cat) Alonzo is a character in T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats". His name is mentioned first in the "Naming of Cats". His actor sometimes doubles as the Great Rumpus Cat, depending on the production. Alonzo is a black and white tom. He pulls Demeter away from Macavity, and is the first to attack him after he defeats Munkustrap. In the US and the first German Productions, he is depicted as being black and gold. Alonzo is the most flirtatious of the cats; seen flirting with many of the kittens
Arnold Book of Old Songs was the one published in "The Arnold Book of Old Songs". The songs are varied in rhythm, tempo, mood, atmosphere and national origin. Quilter often captures a quality that has been described as "golden nostalgia". Roger Quilter's friend Percy Grainger was very favourably impressed with the "Arnold Book of Old Songs". He wrote: Arnold Book of Old Songs The Arnold Book of Old Songs is a collection of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and French folk songs and traditional songs, with new piano accompaniments by Roger Quilter. Quilter dedicated it to and named it after his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian, who