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 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:15 pm
i LOVE children of eden. but i don't think it's a rock opera...there's rock themes, and it's sung through, but putting it in the same category as rent and jesus christ superstar's a bit much.
this is without a doubt one of the hardest questions in the world...william finn's a genius...jeanine tesori's composing is so alive...adam guettel...i can't wait until a light in the piazza comes to broadway. and ahrens and flaherty...they're on par with sondheim. i think they know more about music than any other composer out there...i dare anyone to name any other team who can blend so many eclectic styles into their shows.
i love me some stephen schwartz...not so much for wicked as his other works... i love children of eden and the baker's wife. his musicals DO have such a meaning...all of my favorite composers' musicals do. i just wish composers would do more original work...flaherty and schwartz and tesori need to do more original musicals.
OMG the gershwins brothas! without them, there'd be no stephen schwartz or william finn. okay, i'm just gonna stop playing the name game. it's too hard to pinpoint one fave xp ...the world of music in theater is so vast and powerful...
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:46 am
PossessedByDevil Well you can do favorite composer/lyricist like Styne or Sondheim or you can do composing lyricist teams like Kander & Ebb or George and Ira Gershwin. So who are your favorites and why? Hands down Leonard Bernstein. His songs are difficult (my choir sang a huge medley of West Side Story songs). One of my favorite show tunes of all time is "Something's Coming".
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:50 am
IrethAmandil Stephan Schwartz: Wicked did have to grow on me but now I love it. heart Andrew Lloyd Webber: Evita, Les Miserables, Cats, and most of all, The Phantom of the Opera...there are no words for how his music lifts me up when I'm depressed. Andrew Llyod Webber did not compose Les Miserables! scream It was a joint effort by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg! Rant over my favourite composers are the ones I have just mentioned, including Mr Webber.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:42 pm
jake_e_isMINE PossessedByDevil Well you can do favorite composer/lyricist like Styne or Sondheim or you can do composing lyricist teams like Kander & Ebb or George and Ira Gershwin. So who are your favorites and why? Hands down Leonard Bernstein. His songs are difficult (my choir sang a huge medley of West Side Story songs). One of my favorite show tunes of all time is "Something's Coming". I love Candide. You ever here songs from it? It's so complex and amazing.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:39 am
PossessedByDevil jake_e_isMINE PossessedByDevil Well you can do favorite composer/lyricist like Styne or Sondheim or you can do composing lyricist teams like Kander & Ebb or George and Ira Gershwin. So who are your favorites and why? Hands down Leonard Bernstein. His songs are difficult (my choir sang a huge medley of West Side Story songs). One of my favorite show tunes of all time is "Something's Coming". I love Candide. You ever here songs from it? It's so complex and amazing. Nope. Never heard of it. I'll have to look it up online. smile
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:54 am
candide is LOVELY. did you see the great performances one that aired on pbs with patti lupone and kristen chenoweth?
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:50 pm
BentoMaker_Yung-I candide is LOVELY. did you see the great performances one that aired on pbs with patti lupone and kristen chenoweth? I didn't get to see it/ But I heard that Chenoweth did give Glitter and be Gay justice and that she did a fantastic job.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:57 pm
*knows nothing about composers other than ALW and Schwartz* yeah, so I'll just say they're my favs. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:27 pm
Just to put in, because I didn't before, I think my favorite composer lyricist team is David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr. They've written some pretty great songs/shows together.
I don't know who my favorite composer/lyricist is though. I'll just say Sondheim for now until I'm sure of who it is.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:12 pm
IrethAmandil Stephan Schwartz: Wicked did have to grow on me but now I love it. heart Andrew Lloyd Webber: Evita, Les Miserables, Cats, and most of all, The Phantom of the Opera...there are no words for how his music lifts me up when I'm depressed. Also love Andy, but he's not the one who wrote Les Miserables. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg deserve our unending worship for that. I'm a huge Gershwin fan, too. I was so happy when someone took the trouble of putting a bunch of their work together in the musical Crazy for You. And you have to thank Rodgers and Hammerstein for some of the classics: Cinderella, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, to name a few. *taps chin* Who else? I think that's it for now...
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:39 pm
PossessedByDevil Just to put in, because I didn't before, I think my favorite composer lyricist team is David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr. They've written some pretty great songs/shows together. I don't know who my favorite composer/lyricist is though. I'll just say Sondheim for now until I'm sure of who it is. oh dear god. malty and shire rock my world. i love closer than ever. and starting here, starting now. and big. *dies*
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:01 pm
BentoMaker_Yung-I i LOVE children of eden. but i don't think it's a rock opera...there's rock themes, and it's sung through, but putting it in the same category as rent and jesus christ superstar's a bit much. this is without a doubt one of the hardest questions in the world...william finn's a genius...jeanine tesori's composing is so alive...adam guettel...i can't wait until a light in the piazza comes to broadway. and ahrens and flaherty...they're on par with sondheim. i think they know more about music than any other composer out there...i dare anyone to name any other team who can blend so many eclectic styles into their shows. i love me some stephen schwartz...not so much for wicked as his other works... i love children of eden and the baker's wife. his musicals DO have such a meaning...all of my favorite composers' musicals do. i just wish composers would do more original work...flaherty and schwartz and tesori need to do more original musicals. OMG the gershwins brothas! without them, there'd be no stephen schwartz or william finn. okay, i'm just gonna stop playing the name game. it's too hard to pinpoint one fave xp ...the world of music in theater is so vast and powerful... I love William Finn. Anything by William Finn I know will be good. His lyrics and music are awesome.
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:02 pm
BentoMaker_Yung-I PossessedByDevil Just to put in, because I didn't before, I think my favorite composer lyricist team is David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr. They've written some pretty great songs/shows together. I don't know who my favorite composer/lyricist is though. I'll just say Sondheim for now until I'm sure of who it is. oh dear god. malty and shire rock my world. i love closer than ever. and starting here, starting now. and big. *dies*
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:21 pm
PossessedByDevil BentoMaker_Yung-I i LOVE children of eden. but i don't think it's a rock opera...there's rock themes, and it's sung through, but putting it in the same category as rent and jesus christ superstar's a bit much. this is without a doubt one of the hardest questions in the world...william finn's a genius...jeanine tesori's composing is so alive...adam guettel...i can't wait until a light in the piazza comes to broadway. and ahrens and flaherty...they're on par with sondheim. i think they know more about music than any other composer out there...i dare anyone to name any other team who can blend so many eclectic styles into their shows. i love me some stephen schwartz...not so much for wicked as his other works... i love children of eden and the baker's wife. his musicals DO have such a meaning...all of my favorite composers' musicals do. i just wish composers would do more original work...flaherty and schwartz and tesori need to do more original musicals. OMG the gershwins brothas! without them, there'd be no stephen schwartz or william finn. okay, i'm just gonna stop playing the name game. it's too hard to pinpoint one fave xp ...the world of music in theater is so vast and powerful... I love William Finn. Anything by William Finn I know will be good. His lyrics and music are awesome. yes! are you still near the city? you should go see second spelling bee of putnam county or whatever the name of it is. i'm interested.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:41 pm
BentoMaker_Yung-I PossessedByDevil BentoMaker_Yung-I i LOVE children of eden. but i don't think it's a rock opera...there's rock themes, and it's sung through, but putting it in the same category as rent and jesus christ superstar's a bit much. this is without a doubt one of the hardest questions in the world...william finn's a genius...jeanine tesori's composing is so alive...adam guettel...i can't wait until a light in the piazza comes to broadway. and ahrens and flaherty...they're on par with sondheim. i think they know more about music than any other composer out there...i dare anyone to name any other team who can blend so many eclectic styles into their shows. i love me some stephen schwartz...not so much for wicked as his other works... i love children of eden and the baker's wife. his musicals DO have such a meaning...all of my favorite composers' musicals do. i just wish composers would do more original work...flaherty and schwartz and tesori need to do more original musicals. OMG the gershwins brothas! without them, there'd be no stephen schwartz or william finn. okay, i'm just gonna stop playing the name game. it's too hard to pinpoint one fave xp ...the world of music in theater is so vast and powerful... I love William Finn. Anything by William Finn I know will be good. His lyrics and music are awesome. yes! are you still near the city? you should go see second spelling bee of putnam county or whatever the name of it is. i'm interested. Oh my god! Me too. I really want to see that so bad. And yeah, I go in the city almost everyday. I live on Long Island.
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