Lloyd Webber: Requiem

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It opened recently in London and is called Phantom of the Opera, a gothic tale which has always intrigued me, and which I felt cried out for scoring. It is an extension of my interest in writing for wider voice ranges. American Hal Prince, who also directed Evita, is directing the show. Not really, except to tell Kenneth [MacMillan] what I had told you and everyone else when he asked me about my original intention for the piece. He has choreographed something that is very surprising and very interesting, and certainly something that I would never have thought of myself. In 2023, Lloyd Webber was one of twelve composers asked to write a new piece for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. [95] His anthem, "Make a Joyful Noise", was performed during the enthronement of Queen Camilla. [96] Accusations of plagiarism [ edit ] Voices: tenor, soprano, and treble soloists, and SATB choir (performed with boy sopranos and altos at the premiere) Lloyd Webber was made a life peer in 1997, sitting for the Conservative Party. [123] By the end of 2015, he had voted only 33 times in the House of Lords. [124] Politically, Lloyd Webber has supported the Conservatives, allowing his song " Take That Look Off Your Face" to be used on a party promotional film seen by an estimated one million people before the 2005 general election. [125] In August 2014, Lloyd Webber was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. [126]

From his first success with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1967 at the age of 19, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s works have given a prominent role to religious themes. Recently, in a surprising move prompted by the 1982 death of his father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, organist at All Saints Church near Westminster Abbey, the composer departed in style and set to music the same Latin text of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead that fascinated composers from Mozart to Verdi. The result, Requiem, which premiered in New York in 1985, was immediately subject to both controversy and criticism. As one critic wrote, "Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem? Why not give us Sylvester Stallone as King Lear while we’re at it?" The first public performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem was recorded at St. Thomas’ Church in New York City on February 25, 1985. Placido Domingo (Tenor), Sarah Brightman (Soprano), and Paul Miles-Kingston (Treble) were supported with the combined choruses of Winchester Cathedral and St. Thomas’ Church together with the orchestra of St. Luke’s conducted by Lorin Maazel. In addition to the performance, there is footage of pre-performance preparation, and of Lloyd Webber taking his bow at this World Premiere. Requiem won a Grammy Award in 1986 for best classical composition, and Sarah Brightman was nominated for a Grammy Award as “best new classical artist.” Original Bombay Dreams Cast, London 2002". reallyuseful.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008 . Retrieved 23 November 2019. Classic BRITs - Outstanding Contributions & Lifetime Achievement Awards". Classic FM. Retrieved 5 August 2015 Lloyd Webber has received numerous awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage for services to the arts, six Tonys, seven Olivier Awards, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, 14 Ivor Novello Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and two Classic Brit Awards (for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2008, and for Musical Theatre and Education in 2018). [3] [4] [5] In 2018, after Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), he became the thirteenth person to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony. [6] He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. [7]

In 2014, Lloyd Webber designed a Cats-themed Paddington Bear statue, which was located in Chinatown, London (one of 50 placed around London), with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). [122] Politics [ edit ]

Darvell, Michael (21 December 2008). "Andrew to help BBC find Oliver!". Andrew Lloyd Webber. Archived from the original on 25 January 2008 . Retrieved 29 June 2008. Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works – Walsh, Michael (1989, revised and expanded, 1997). p. 82, Abrams: New York History and reception [ edit ] Plácido Domingo, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Sarah Brightman at the world premiere of Requiem. Requiem is scored for chorus, three soloists (tenor, soprano and treble) and large orchestra. The premiere performance and album were both conducted by the American maestro Lorin Maazel, with soloists Placido Domingo, Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston. Trouble down below" by Philip Hodson, The Independent". The Independent. London. 6 May 2014 . Retrieved 27 September 2014.Lloyd Webber's new version of Cinderella opened at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in the West End in 2021. The opening, which was originally set to take place in August 2020, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [92] Based on a book by Emerald Fennell, Lloyd Webber wrote: "Emerald Fennell has written something truly exciting and original, and the moment I read her outline I knew I'd found my latest collaborator." [93] He garnered press attention in July 2021 for saying that he was "prepared to be arrested" to open Cinderella to full houses in spite of rising Covid cases and in defiance of Government advice. [94] A 2021 feature in Variety suggested:

George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976) Ouzounian, Richard (2 January 2006). "Aspects of Andrew". Toronto Star– via EBSCOHost Research Database. a b "The transformative free musical instrument scheme that Andrew Lloyd Webber wants in every secondary school". Classic FM . Retrieved 23 November 2023. In 2013, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme was launched to aid the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST), which aims to give every child at participating schools across the UK the opportunity to study a musical instrument as part of the curriculum. [121] He told LBC: "What music does in these schools, isn't actually necessarily about trying to make the children musicians. But what it does, is it really helps them as people." [121] Elgot, Jessica (16 October 2017). "Andrew Lloyd Webber quits as Conservative peer". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 October 2017.John Higgins writes in the liner notes of the “First Edition Concert Program” included with the first release of the video that “two events set the Requiem in motion. The first was the death of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s father in 1982 and the second was a story about Cambodia in an obscure corner of the New York Times, concerning a boy who was faced with the choice of killing his mutilated sister or being killed himself. Cambodia has no musical influence in the score, but it did give Lloyd Webber the idea of scoring the Requiem for a boy, a girl and a man: in other words, treble, high soprano and tenor. He toyed with including a bass, but soon rejected the concept … The presence of Placido Domingo as the tenor suggests that the Requiem will also be described as operatic.” Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Tim Rice join the ranks of EGOT winners". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 29 June 2019. The joy for me personally with my own works is that large numbers of people are actually affected by them. That is exciting. It’s so gratifying when ordinary people come up to you in an airport and say, "We’re really looking forward to the performances -- the Requiem wasn’t a piece that we thought anyone would do today." It’s then when you realize that you’ve achieved something that matters a very great deal more than whether or not you’ve appealed to some critic for some smart publication who thinks that music must now be "minimalist" or whatever else is temporarily in vogue.

Lloyd Webber was the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television's Euston Road Studios in London. [38] He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. [39] Cats at the London Palladium Lloyd Webber treated for cancer". BBC News. 25 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009 . Retrieved 25 October 2009.

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