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
W. S. Gilbert binding and clear type, containing Gilbert's most respectable plays, including his most serious works, but mischievously capped off with "Trial by Jury". After the success of "Trial by Jury", there were discussions towards reviving "Thespis", but Gilbert and Sullivan were not able to agree on terms with Carte and his backers. The score to "Thespis" was never published, and most of the music is now lost. It took some time for Carte to gather funds for another Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and in this gap Gilbert produced several works including "Tom Cobb" (1875), "Eyes and No Eyes" (1875, his last