Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Paul Bunyan is a "choral operetta" composed by Benjamin Britten with book and lyrics by W. H. Auden. The music is based on a variety of American styles, including folk songs, blues and hymns. The use of a ballad singer (narrator), to whom Britten gave country-style music, may have influenced Stephen Sondheim's creation of the role of the "Balladeer" in "Assassins".Paul Bunyan premiered at Columbia University in 1941 to largely negative reviews. Britten revised the operetta in 1976, removing two numbers (Inkslinger's Love Song and Lullaby of Dream Shadows) and composing a new finale for Act I.

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