Lloyd Webber: Requiem

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In truth, what pop appeal the Requiem has had has surprised me tremendously. As you may be aware, the "Pie Jesu" was a huge hit in Europe on the pop charts. That was totally bizarre, and nobody could have guessed that would happen, least of all me. If you were to ask, "Do you think that a song with a lyric in Latin sung by a little boy and a girl soprano would be a smash hit?" I would say, "That doesn’t sound like the instant recipe for fame and fortune!" Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem is a requiem mass, which premiered in 1985. It was written in memory of the composer's father, William Lloyd Webber, who died in 1982.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Auctions Art For Charity". Bloomberg.com. 17 March 2010 . Retrieved 27 September 2014. Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Cats (1981) was to become the longest-running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances before closing. [40] On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera. [41] [42] Elaine Paige collaborated again with Lloyd Webber, originating the role of Grizabella in Cats, and had a Top10 UK hit with " Memory". [43] Starlight Express has been running in Bochum, Germany since 1988. Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982. It premiered at St. Thomas Church in New York on 24 February 1985. Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual Sydmonton Festival. [46] Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for Requiem in the category of best classical composition. Pie Jesu from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK Singles Chart and was certified silver. [47] Perhaps because of its large orchestration, live performances of the Requiem are rare.

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Lloyd Webber treated for cancer". BBC News. 25 October 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009 . Retrieved 25 October 2009. It had never been part of music history that composers did not try to make their music communicate with broad numbers of people until relatively recently. Composers started to get terribly precious around 1910 or so. It’s all nonsense. Duke Ellington once said, "There are only two types of music -- good music and bad music." In the long term, that’s an accurate assessment. That certainly has been a problem, and though I would in no way compare my music to Gershwin’s, he certainly did face the same problem. People couldn’t quite understand why a "commercial composer" would want to write something serious. In a 1971 interview with The New York Times, Lloyd Webber said he is an agnostic. He also said he views Jesus as "one of the great figures of history". [104]

Barnett, Laura (8 January 2014). "Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist – portrait of the artist". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 December 2014. British certifications – Sarah Brightman & Paul Miles-Kingston – Pie Jesu". British Phonographic Industry. Lloyd Webber and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow

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One of the most distinctive and innovative features of the Requiem is the major emphasis on a child to proclaim a message of death. We tend to think of children as symbolic of life and hope and the future. But that expectation is shattered here. 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. 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 LW Theatres partners with War Child to support children in conflict zones". The stage . Retrieved 23 November 2023.

There isn’t a real point to composing if you don’t give the people the opportunity to decide whether they like your music or not. It would be ludicrous to say that Puccini’s music was terrible just because he attracted and accommodated large crowds with free sweets in the cafes on the opening nights of his operas. Verdi also had a cafe arrangement, and in his own way, so did Wagner.

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Pie Jesu" ( / ˈ p iː . eɪ ˈ j eɪ . z uː, - s uː/ PEE-ay- YAY-zu; original Latin: " Pie Iesu" /ˈpi.e ˈje.su/) is a text from the final couplet of the hymn " Dies irae", and is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass as a motet. The phrase means " pious Jesus" in the vocative. With Superstar it was very clear where my own feelings as a composer lay, and the most successful music there in "pop" terms was the music sung by Judas. That was a long time ago, and of course I would write such a piece differently now. The thing that I hope does come through theologically even now is the great climax of the whole first act, the song "Gethsemane," which is very much Jesus’ moment.

It was a new venture for Lloyd Webber, the composer of numerous musicals, to create a piece of traditional classical music. The music mixes Lloyd Webber's melodic and pop-oriented style with more complex, sophisticated, and at times even austere forms. In 2023, Lloyd Webber's son, Nicholas died at the age of 43 after an 18 month battle with gastric cancer. [110] Wealth [ edit ] Voices: tenor, soprano, and treble soloists, and SATB choir (performed with boy sopranos and altos at the premiere) Lloyd Webber produced a staging of The Sound of Music, which débuted in November 2006. He made the controversial decision to choose an unknown to play leading lady Maria, who was found through the BBC's reality television show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, in which he was a judge. [64] The winner of the show was Connie Fisher. A 2006 project, The Master and Margarita, was abandoned in 2007. [65] U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stand with the Kennedy Center honourees in the Blue Room of the White House during a reception Sunday, 3 December 2006. From left, they are: singer and songwriter William "Smokey" Robinson; Andrew Lloyd Webber; country singer Dolly Parton; film director Steven Spielberg; and conductor Zubin Mehta.Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956) He is a lifelong supporter of London-based football club Leyton Orient F.C., [105] just like his younger brother Julian. [106] Evita transferred to Broadway in 1979, in a production starring Patti LuPone as Eva and Mandy Patinkin as Che; it won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, helped launch the careers of both LuPone and Patinkin, and ran for almost four years. Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after Evita, although they have sporadically worked together since then. [34] 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 ] Sternfeld, Jessica (2006). The Megamusical. Indiana University Press. p.169. ISBN 978-0-253-34793-0.