Adrian D. Holmes - Radio Transcript: Adrian D. Holmes on George Bettinger's Mom & Pop Shop Interview and Variety Show (October 5, 2016) lyrics

[George:] Hi, ladies and gentlemen, George Bettinger with you broadcast east coast, west coast—and yes, worldwide—and I have a very special guest with me: Adrian D. Holmes. And Adrian has some amazing information if you love music, and you love cla**ical music and operetta. The debut of his album The Pirates of Penzance: Revamped and Revisited is going to be avilable soon. And Adrian, how are you? [Adrian:] Hello, George, I am doing very well. Thank you so much for having me. [George:] Oh, it's our pleasure! I know most people love Gilbert & Sullivan because it's just wonderful music, and the writing is so great, and the play on words is so great. What inspired you to be involved with Gilbert & Sullivan? [Adrian:] Well, as you said, Gilbert & Sullivan were really geniuses of music. I've talked with so many people over the past year with working with this project. We all agree that Gilbert & Sullivan ere two men before their time. Of course, when they first wrote The Pirates of Penzance back in 1879, a lot of critics of the day believed that they had wasted their talents on something that was really just trivial, and just not serious—not a serious contribution to western art music. But of course, it turns out 137 years later, we certainly remember them far more than may of the other people that were alive with them back in England in the Romantic period. [George:] Absolutely! [Adrian:] One thing that caused me to want to be involved with this project was actually as a little kid—actually, I'll share a little bit of my story. I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and I lived there for the first six years of my life.