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5 unusual facts about Tantivy Towers


Tantivy

Tantivy Towers, a three-act light opera , written by A. P. Herbert and with music composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill.

Tantivy Towers

It is set in the present day (the early 1930s), and plays on the contrasts and conflicts between the rural aristocracy and urban bohemians, between the hunting set and the artists - as one song describes it, "between Orpheus and Hercules".

Tantivy Towers is a three-act light opera, written by A. P. Herbert and with music composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill.

Thomas Dunhill

In 1935 Dunhill's music came to a wider public with the comic opera Tantivy Towers to a libretto by A.P. Herbert.

His compositions include a song cycle, The Wind among the Reeds, and an operetta, Tantivy Towers.



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