![]() ![]() He composed the scores of the motion pictures Gumshoe and The Odessa File, and his setting of the Latin Requi Mass earned him a Grammy for Best contemporary Composition. He has established the vogue for the sung-through musical, brought epic dramas and operatic otions to the musical stage and helped prove that no subject is off-limits." Lloyd Webber is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell me On A Sunday -later combined as Song and Dance-Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White. "Not just American popular taste oR&British popular taste, but worldwide popular taste. "No theatrical figure in the last 20 years has appealed so consistently to popular taste as Lloyd Webber," David Richards wrote in The New York Times. It is also good to remember that The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running musical in Broadway history, is but one such original gesture in a career marked by originality and surprise. Eliot with Lloyd Webber's knowing neoromantic melodies. Even about cats-and how many musicals boast Nobel Prize-winning lyrics? It is good to remember how strikingly original a theatrical concept it was to bring together the quirky, cool po s of T.S. He has made unforgettable musicals about just plain singing and dancing, but also about South American politics, British butlers, lovelorn phantoms and American trains. He has found inspiration in the unlikeliest sources, making music from the Old and New Testaments and from the text of the Mass, but also from an urbane Bloomsbury romance, from smoldering French and British gothics, from a game called football and from the melancholy dream of Old Hollywood. ![]() Arguably the most successful composer of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber also r ains among the most surprising. ![]()
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