An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer The lyrics of "The Elements" are a recitation of the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found on his albums "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" as well as "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer". The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from "The Pirates of Penzance". Since that time, 16 more have been discovered. At his concert in Copenhagen (1967), Lehrer admitted, "I like to play
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan the performance, however, news arrives of Sullivan's death. Some years later, Gilbert is finally knighted. The following additional singing voices were heard on the soundtrack: Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Owen Brannigan, Harold Williams, Muriel Brunskill, John Cameron and Jennifer Vyvyan. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical entertainments of the Victorian era and