"for its theme tune. In ""Lloyd Webber's adaptation"" of the film ""School of Rock"" (2003) to the West End, Dewey Finn and Ned Schneebly play Guitar Hero to the audience on an imaginary TV screen, and the ""Variations"" album is played. In addition, the chorus of the song ""Stick it to the Man"" is based on a note sequence from ""Variation 14"". Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album) Variations is a classical and rock fusion album. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by his younger brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. The Lloyd Webber brothers were always"
"Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) and Sarah Hugill. He is the grandson of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) who was also a noted composer. Webber's uncle is Julian Lloyd Webber (born 1951), a noted cellist and conductor. He married his partner, Polly Wiltshire, in June 2018. Nick Lloyd Webber Nicholas Lloyd Webber (born July 22, 1979) is an English composer and music producer. He is known for scoring the BBC 1 drama Love, Lies and Records, co-writing (with James D. Reid) the symphonic piece The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de St. Exupery and also his 2017"
"William Lloyd Webber William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer, achieving some fame as a part of the modern classical music movement yet commercially facing mixed opportunities. Besides his long and prestigious career, composing works ranging from choral pieces to instrumental items and more, he is known for being the father of both fellow composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and virtuoso cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. He also notably served as a teacher, instructing pupils on music theory at the Royal College of Music for a time. Webber was born in"
"A Span of Time A Span of Time is a collection of 4 CD albums for cello, orchestra and piano (or harp). It includes the last recordings made by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber before he was forced to retire from public performance due to injury in 2014 and his debut recording as conductor. The recordings feature cellists Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Jiaxin Cheng, the English Chamber Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, as well as pianist John Lenehan, harpist Catrin Finch and two former BBC Young Musician of the Year winners Guy Johnston and Laura van der Heijden."
"A Span of Time A Span of Time is a collection of 4 CD albums for cello, orchestra and piano (or harp). It includes the last recordings made by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber before he was forced to retire from public performance due to injury in 2014 and his debut recording as conductor. The recordings feature cellists Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Jiaxin Cheng, the English Chamber Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, as well as pianist John Lenehan, harpist Catrin Finch and two former BBC Young Musician of the Year winners Guy Johnston and Laura van der Heijden."
"father and son. Married to Music Married to Music is a 2001 biography by Margaret Campbell published by Robson Books of the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber (with a foreword by Lady Evelyn Barbirolli). Margaret Campbell is an authority on string instrumentalists and has written profiles on string players for ""The Strad"" magazine and is the author of 'The Great Violinists' and 'The Great Cellists'. Besides details of Lloyd Webber's own life and career the book pays attention to the music of Lloyd Webber's father, William Lloyd Webber. It contains a listing of his compositions and publishers as well as"
"he had played for more than thirty years. In March 2015, he was announced as Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Lloyd Webber received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 1998 and a Classic FM Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005. He won the Best British Classical Recording in 1986 at the Brit Awards for his recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto with Sir Yehudi Menuhin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Hull, Plymouth"
"Married to Music Married to Music is a 2001 biography by Margaret Campbell published by Robson Books of the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber (with a foreword by Lady Evelyn Barbirolli). Margaret Campbell is an authority on string instrumentalists and has written profiles on string players for ""The Strad"" magazine and is the author of 'The Great Violinists' and 'The Great Cellists'. Besides details of Lloyd Webber's own life and career the book pays attention to the music of Lloyd Webber's father, William Lloyd Webber. It contains a listing of his compositions and publishers as well as discographies of both"
"and completed his studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva in 1973. Lloyd Webber made his professional debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, in September 1972 when he gave the first London performance of the cello concerto by Sir Arthur Bliss. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including conductors Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Georg Solti, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Andrew Davis and Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianists Clifford Curzon and Murray Perahia as well as Stéphane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine. He was described in ""The Strad"" as the ""doyen of British cellists"". His many"
"""Front Row"" and ""The World Tonight"". In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox. In September 2014, the charity Live Music Now announced Lloyd Webber as its next public spokesman. On 28 April 2014, he announced his retirement from public performance as a cellist because of a herniated disc in his neck. His final public performance as a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with the English Chamber Orchestra when he played the Barjansky Stradivarius cello (dated c. 1690) which"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably ""The Music of the Night"" and ""All I Ask of You"" from ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""I Don't Know How to Love"
"Nick Lloyd Webber Nicholas Lloyd Webber (born July 22, 1979) is an English composer and music producer. He is known for scoring the BBC 1 drama Love, Lies and Records, co-writing (with James D. Reid) the symphonic piece The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de St. Exupery and also his 2017 musical, ""Fat Friends: The Musical"" which premiered at the Grand Theatre in Leeds and subsequently toured the UK in 2018. He has also written music for numerous television ad campaigns. ""A Spoonful of Sherman"" (Double CD) (2015) Webber is the eldest son of iconic British composer,"
"Music & Media, which encompassed LCM and a range of media-related subjects such as music technology, radio, journalism and other creative and digital arts. In 2005 LCMM was renamed the Faculty of the Arts, with music-related subjects administered by the Department of Music. Since March 2007 the music department has been operating once again under the title of London College of Music. Former principals of London College of Music include William Lloyd Webber (the father of English composer and impresario of Musical Theatre Andrew Lloyd Webber), renowned British cellist, conductor and music educator Julian Lloyd Webber (son of William and"
"the United Kingdom. His first compositions developed in the 1930s. In 1942 he married the pianist and violinist Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993). The marriage, which lasted until his death, produced two sons: composer Andrew (born 1948) and cellist Julian (born 1951). From 1945 until the mid-1950s, Webber composed vocal and instrumental music, choral and organ works, chamber music and orchestral works. Works from this period include the oratorio ""St. Francis of Assisi"", the orchestral tone-poem ""Aurora"", the Sonatinas for viola and flute, numerous songs, organ pieces and choral works. But Webber's roots were firmly embedded in the romanticism of such"
"ones. They include a number with Julian Lloyd Webber, Dudley Moore and members of his family. Dankworth and Laine's two children are both jazz musicians: Alec Dankworth is a bassist who is also a member of his father's band, and Jacqui Dankworth is a singer. Dankworth was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Year's Honours List. He and Dame Cleo Laine were one of the few married couples where both partners held titles in their own right. Sir John remained an active composer into later life, and he wrote a jazz violin concerto for soloist Christian Garrick to"
"Union Chamber Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra. Cheng married Julian Lloyd Webber in July 2009 (the couple's daughter was born in 14 June 2011). Their first recording together, released in March 2011, was Menotti's Arioso for two cellos and strings, featured on the album ""The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber"". Cheng also features on Lloyd Webber's 2011 album ""Evening Songs"". In September 2013, Naxos released their first full-length recording ""A Tale of Two Cellos"". This was followed by the Vivaldi concertos for two cellos with the European Union Chamber Orchestra in 2014. Jiaxin Cheng Jiaxin Cheng (, born 2 October"
"Lloyd Webber's memoir, ""Unmasked"", was published in March 2018. On September 9, 2018 Webber, along with Tim Rice and John Legend each won an Emmy for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. With this win, Webber, Rice and Legend joined the list of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Lloyd Webber has been accused of plagiarism in his works. The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen commented that: ""Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. That's rather poor"". Lloyd Webber's biographer, John Snelson,"
"would be viable to bring the show to Broadway. It received positive reviews and was No.1 on DVD charts in the UK and Ireland, and did well in America. Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits"
"recordings include his BRIT Award-winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by ""BBC Music Magazine""), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Several CDs are of short pieces for Universal Classics including ""Made in England / Gentle Dreams"", ""Cello Moods"", ""Cradle Song"" and ""English Idyll"". Lloyd Webber premiered the recordings of more than 50"
"in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK. Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, the"
"year, Lloyd Webber divorced his first wife, Sarah Hugill, with whom he had two children. Lloyd Webber and Brightman married on 22 March 1984 and their relationship quickly became the subject of intense media and tabloid scrutiny until their divorce in 1990. Brightman acknowledged the marriage in a 1999 interview as a ""difficult time"" but also one of much creative output. They are currently on friendly terms; in 2006, at the 20th London anniversary of ""The Phantom of the Opera"", Lloyd Webber called Brightman a ""wonderful woman"" and ""absolutely beloved mentor"", and she performed at the 25th anniversary of the"
"Seminars there. In 1968, Central Hall hosted the first public performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"" in a concert that also included his father (organist William Lloyd Webber who was Musical Director at Methodist Central Hall), his brother (cellist Julian Lloyd Webber) and pianist John Lill. The FIFA World Cup trophy was on display at Central Hall in early 1966 in preparation for the football tournament being held in England that summer. It was stolen from the hall on 20 March 1966 and was recovered seven days later in South London, but the thief was"
"at $20 million. Since then the ""Barjansky Stradivarius"" has been played by Lloyd Webber, who has made more than 30 award-winning recordings on the instrument, including a renowned version of Elgar Cello Concerto, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin. Chapter Eight of Margaret Campbell's biography of Lloyd Webber, ""Married to Music"", is called ""The Barjansky"" Strad. The Barjansky Stradivarius has reportedly been offered for sale by the violin expert Florian Leonhard. All first performances were by Julian Lloyd Webber, except the January 1923 concerto by Alexandre Barjansky. Barjansky Stradivarius The Barjansky Stradivarius of c.1690 is an antique cello fabricated by the Italian"
"colleague during his early days in Italy and Spain. After 1956, he made his home in Switzerland, although he never relinquished his French citizenship. He received the dedication of both Bohuslav Martinů's Cello Concerto No. 1 (1930, rev. 1939, 1955) and Francis Poulenc's Cello Sonata (1948). In 1963, he was made a member of the Legion of Honour. He continued performing in public until two years before his death at the age of 79. Until the end of his life, he taught privately at his home in Geneva: the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber was among his pupils. His son"
"support for In Harmony across England by extending funding from the Department for Education and adding funding from Arts Council England from 2012 to 2015. Lloyd Webber now chairs the charity Sistema England. In October 2012 he led the Incorporated Society of Musicians campaign against the implementation of the English Baccalaureate which proposed to remove arts subjects from the core curriculum. In February 2013 the government withdrew its plans. Lloyd Webber has represented the music education sector on programmes such as BBC1's ""Question Time"", ""The Andrew Marr Show"", BBC2's ""Newsnight"" and BBC Radio 4's ""Today"", ""The World at One"", ""PM"","
"In Harmony (music education project) In Harmony is a social and music education programme based on Venezuela's El Sistema, adapted to an English context. In Harmony uses music to bring positive change to the lives of children in disadvantaged areas of England, delivering benefits across the wider community. The programme encourages participation in music – in the form of the symphony orchestra – which can have huge personal benefits for the children involved, providing opportunities to grow and develop academically, socially and musically. British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is the founder of In Harmony and was the Chairman of the"
"Webber has collected, as an act of homage, sayings, impressions and stories of the 'little Catalan maestro' which illustrate his indomitable spirit as both artist and man. Song of the Birds (book) Song of the Birds is a 1985 collection of sayings, stories, and impressions of Pablo Casals made by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Casals was a Catalan and one of the world's most respected cellists. He was a legend in his own lifetime, one so powerful that when, in protest at Franco's regime, he began a self-imposed exile in the tiny Catalan French Pyrenean village of Prades just north"
"its passion as well as a secure technique. Barbirolli himself had an association with the concerto from its first days: he was a member of the cello section of the orchestra at its 1919 premiere; and he was the soloist at one of its earliest performances, with the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra under Sir Dan Godfrey. In 1985 the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber recorded the concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin. The recording was chosen by the Elgar scholar Jerrold Northrop Moore as the ""finest ever version"" for ""BBC Music Magazine"" and won a Brit"
"tune for ITV's long-running ""South Bank Show"" throughout its 32-year run. The same year, Lloyd Webber also composed a new theme tune for the long-running documentary series ""Whicker's World"", which was used from 1978 to 1980. 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. He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the Adelphi Theatre. Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead"
"University and Thames Valley University. He is vice president of the Delius Society and a patron of both Music in Hospitals and Children & the Arts. He has been an ambassador for the Prince's Trust for more than twenty years and a patron of CLIC Sargent for more than 30 years. In September 2009 he joined the board of governors of the Southbank Centre. He was the Foundling Museum's Handel Fellow for 2010. He was the only classical musician chosen to play at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. On 16 April 2014 Lloyd Webber received the Incorporated Society of"
"arrangement of ""The Pink Panther Theme"" on the CD """". Juber has also released a series of instructional CDs that teach basic music theory and arrangement techniques for guitarists and has three folios of his arrangements of pop songs published by Hal Leonard. He is married to Hope Juber and they have two daughters, Nico Juber and songwriter Ilsey Juber. ^ ""Collaborations Paul McCartney – Laurence Juber – Standard Time"".http://beatleshelp.net/collabo/juber.html. Retrieved 10 August 2012. Laurence Juber Laurence Juber (born 12 November 1952) is an English-born musician. Often considered most famous for playing lead guitar in Wings from 1978 to 1981,"
"The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection is a compilation album by classical crossover soprano Sarah Brightman. All of the tracks on this album are previously available on other albums. It is Brightman's third best-selling release in the United States. The album debuted at the ""Billboard"" Top 200 Albums at No. 110 and remained 17 weeks on chart. It peaked at the ""Billboard"" Top Classical Crossover Albums at No. 2. In April 2008, after Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared at the seventh season of the American show ""American Idol"", and supplemented by a featured appearance of the record"
"Lloyd Webber through his Watership Down neighbours, who loved horses. Gurdon married Lloyd Webber at his Hampshire home on 9 February 1991. They have three children together; Alastair (born 1992), William (born 1993) and Isabella (born 1996). The family currently resides in London and Hampshire. Madeleine Gurdon Madeleine Astrid Gurdon, Baroness Lloyd-Webber (born 30 November 1962) is an English former equestrian sportswoman, and the third and current wife of musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber. Madeleine ""Gurtie"" Gurdon was born in 1962 to a British Army officer, and his wife, who later retired as a Brigadier. Gurtie was educated at"