"Which Lerner & Loewe musical of 1958 features the songs “The Night They Invented Champagne” and “I Remember It Well""?"
"Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, ""Doctor Dolittle"", but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse. Lerner was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. In 1973, Lerner coaxed Loewe out of retirement to augment the ""Gigi"" score for a musical stage adaptation. The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of ""The Little Prince"", based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This film was a critical and box office failure, but it has gained a modern following. Lerner's"
"Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor subsidiary label Vik. The album features jazz interpretations of show tunes from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musicals ""My Fair Lady"", ""Brigadoon"", and ""Paint Your Wagon"". Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, the review by Scott Yanow stating: ""One of the rarest of all Art Blakey records... Despite some of the musicians' unfamiliarity with the songs, this date is quite successful"". ""All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick"
"Loewe"" Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor subsidiary label Vik. The album features jazz interpretations of show tunes from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musicals ""My Fair Lady"", ""Brigadoon"", and ""Paint Your Wagon"". Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, the review by Scott Yanow stating: ""One of the rarest of all Art Blakey records... Despite some of the musicians' unfamiliarity with the songs, this date is quite successful"". ""All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and"
"Lerner and Loewe Lerner and Loewe were the team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, known primarily for the music and lyrics of some of Broadway's most successful musicals, including ""My Fair Lady"", ""Camelot"", and ""Brigadoon"". Among the songs from the couple are ""Wand'rin' Star"", ""Almost Like Being in Love"", ""Get Me to the Church on Time"", ""The Rain in Spain"" and ""I Could Have Danced All Night"". Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, more commonly known as Fritz, met in 1942 at the Lambs Club in New York City where, according to Loewe, he"
"Spring Come not too Soon, 1947; The Christmas Story, 1948; The Bailey and the Bell, 1950; Horses, 1951; Einfaches Lied, 1955, unpublished; My Lady Comes, 1957; Three Hokku, 1958 Orchestral: ""Poema"", 1922; ""Stars"", 1927 (New York, 1963); ""Sand"", 1928 (New York, 1963); ""Castellana"", 2 pianos, orchestra, 1930; ""Dirge"", 1931; ""Axiom"", 1932; ""American Piece"", 1933; ""Coulennes"", 1936; ""Potomac River"", 1940; ""Paean"", 1941; ""Agreeable Overture"", 1948; ""Rock"", 1954 (New York, 1963); ""The Holy Baby of the Madonna"", 1958 Chamber music: Fugue, string quartet, 1922; Sonata, D, 1922 (New York, 1962); Ballade Fantasque, 1927; 3 Restaurant Pieces, 1927; Little Suite, string quartet, 1928;"
"popular. However a Frank Sinatra-Debbie Reynolds comedy, ""The Tender Trap,"" (1955) was well liked, as was the Bing Crosby-Sinatra-Grace Kelly musical ""High Society"" (1956). Walters directed some popular comedies, ""Don't Go Near the Water"" (1957) with Glenn Ford, ""Ask Any Girl"" (1959) with Shirley MacLaine and David Niven, and ""Please Don't Eat the Daisies"" (1960) with Doris Day and Niven. He also helped choreograph the number ""The Night They Invented Champagne"" in ""Gigi"" (1958) and did some uncredited directing on ""Cimarron"" (1960) and ""Go Naked in the World "" (1961). Walters then had two flops, ""Two Loves"" (1962) with MacLaine"
"catalogue, those well-known (""Maria"" from ""West Side Story"", ""There But For You Go I"" from Lerner & Loewe's ""Brigadoon"", ""The Cafe Song"" from ""Les Misérables"", ""Johanna"" from Stephen Sondheim's """"), rare (""Love Song"" from Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's ""Love Life"", ""It Must Be So"" from Leonard Bernstein's ""Candide"", and ""Silly People"", which was cut from Sondheim's ""A Little Night Music""), and those in-between (""Finishing the Hat"" from ""Sunday in the Park with George"", ""You Do Something to Me"" from Cole Porter's ""Fifty Million Frenchmen"", ""Never Will I Marry"" from Frank Loesser's ""Greenwillow""). He has directed stage presentations of"
"""The Trial at Rouen"", and Bohuslav Martinů's ""The Marriage""; Jack Beeson's ""My Heart's in the Highlands"", Thomas Pasatieri's ""The Trial of Mary Lincoln"" and Hans Werner Henze's ""La Cubana"". He was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza. He later conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1968. He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera ""Macbeth"" at the Juilliard School in May 1973. He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for ""The Great Caruso"" in 1950, for which he received an Academy"
"Records of Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra's version featuring ""Lola's Theme"" on the A-side and ""Yes Sir, That's My Baby"" on the B-side (catalog Mercury 70197). Hecht-Lancaster & Buzzell Music and Calyork Music went on to publish songs for every future Norma Productions (and its subsidiary companies) films. Their films include ""The Bachelor Party"" and ""Sweet Smell of Success"" in 1957, ""Run Silent, Run Deep"" and ""Separate Tables"" (which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) in 1958, ""Cry Tough"", ""The Rabbit Trap"", ""Take a Giant Step"" and ""Summer of the"
"You Like It"", ""Coriolanus"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""The Tempest"", ""King Lear"", ""Julius Caesar"", ""Henry V"", and ""A Midsummer Night’s Dream""; Bertolt Brecht's ""Life of Galileo"", ""The Wedding"", ""Arturo Ui"", ""Three Penny Opera"", and the opera ""The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny""; Harold Pinter's ""The Homecoming"", ""Betrayal"", ""Landscape"",""Silence"",""One for the Road"", ""Ashes to Ashes"", ""The New World Order"", ""Party Time"", and ""Mountain Language""; C. P. Taylor's ""Good"" by C. P. Taylor; Engelbert Humperdinck's 1983 opera ""Hänsel und Gretel""; ""Wild Honey"", an untitled work by Anton Chekhov adapted by Michael Frayn; and ""Agamemnon"", by Aeschylus, as adapted by Steven Berkoff;"
"for Best Musical five times with ""Walking Happy"" (1967); ""Skyscraper"" (1966), ""Little Me"" (1963); ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1962), and ""Guys and Dolls"" (1951). ""Little Me"" and ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" also garnered them nominations for the Tony Award for Best Producer of a Musical. ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" and ""Guys and Dolls"" won the Tony Award for Best Musical, while ""Business"" also won the Best Producer Tony and the Pulitzer Prize. Feuer and Martin owned the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from 1960 to 1965. They were so successful as"
"(1921), ""Gavotte in G minor"" (1927), ""The Angelus"" (1927), ""Chansonette"" (1928), ""An Old Time Dance"" (1928), ""Le Soir"" (1928), ""Five Little Solos for Cello and Piano"" (1928), ""Romance in A"" (1929), ""Valse Capricieuse"" (1933), ""An Old World Love Song"" (1933), ""Cradle Song"" (1939), ""Humoresque Rumbaesque"" (1939), ""Petite Valse Lyrique"" (1950), ""Nocturne"" (1951), ""Pavane"", ""The Vesper Bell"" (from an old Breton folk tune) and ""Five Little Songs"". His cello and piano arrangements are of music by J. S. Bach and Thomas Arne. He also arranged the following traditional folk tunes: ""Six Old English Airs"" (1921), ""Six Old Irish Airs"" (1923), ""Eight"
"and Dolores Gray, with music by Jule Styne; ""Wonderful Town"", a musical adaptation of the play ""My Sister Eileen"", with music by Bernstein; and ""Bells Are Ringing"", which reunited them with Judy Holliday and Jule Styne. The score, including the standards ""Just in Time"", ""Long Before I Knew You"", and ""The Party's Over"", proved to be one of their richest. The duo contributed additional lyrics to the 1954 musical ""Peter Pan"", translated and streamlined ""Die Fledermaus"" for the Metropolitan Opera, and collaborated with Styne on songs for the play-with-music ""Say, Darling"". In 1958, they appeared on Broadway in ""A Party"
"their full vocal demands. This philosophy has enabled many singers to go on to work for Opera Houses abroad without too much difficulty. The company has also staged productions of John Blow's ""Venus and Adonis"" (2004); Henry Purcell's ""Dido and Aeneas"" (2005); Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" (2006); Bizet's ""Carmen"" (2007); Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" (2008); Mozart's ""Le Nozze di Figaro"" (2009); Verdi's ""Rigoletto"" (2010); Puccini's ""La Bohème"" (2011); Verdi's ""La Traviata"" (2012); Britten's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (2013) and a reprise of Mozart's"" Die Zauberflöte"" (2014). The 2015 production will be Johann Strauss II's ""Die Fledermaus"" with a guest conductor. Distinguished singers"
"1958 musical were inspired by songwriters such as Noël Coward. (David Heneker said his musical career was inspired by reading the score of Noel ""Coward's Bitter Sweet""). Their lyrics were clever, wordy and allusive: ""The Gravy Train"", for example, has Johnny quoting an apt line from Shakespeare's ""Troilus and Cressida"", (Act 5, Scene X), while the unrepentant shopaholics in ""We Bought It"" describe themselves as ""two eccentric socialites, dissipated sybarites"". The tunes modulate all over the place and parody rock, Latin jazz, skiffle and trad. Music historian John Snelsen writes, Expresso Bongo opened in the West End in the same"
"and Lynn Ahrens musical ""Ragtime"", which was recognized in 2004 with eight Olivier Award nominations including Best Director and Best Musical; concert-productions of ""The Secret Garden"" and ""Ragtime"" which were presented at Lincoln Center in 2016 and 2013; ""The Secret Garden"" (Toho, Japan); ""Two Class Acts"" by A.R. Gurney (The Flea Theater); """" (by Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo); ""Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"" (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Roundabout Theatre Company's production of ""The Tin Pan Alley Rag""; ""The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea"" (San Diego Rep.); ""The New World"" (Bucks County Playhouse); ""Bowfire"" (PBS television"
"the time to handle both music and lyrics. She wrote the lyrics and music for the Broadway musical ""Count Me In"" (1942) She wrote songs for movies including ""Champagne Waltz"" (1937) and ""Blockade"" (1938) and wrote the scores for movies including the Cowan produced ""The Story of G.I. Joe"" (1945), the film adaptation of the Weill/Nash musical ""One Touch of Venus"" (1948), and the Marx Brothers' ""Love Happy"" (1949). She served as musical director for ""Main Street to Broadway"" (1953). She was nominated for Best Song, ""Linda,"" and with co-composer Louis Applebaum for Best Score, for her work on ""The"
"also met Lorenz Hart, with whom he would also collaborate. Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce ""The Patsy"" called ""Life of the Party"" for a Detroit stock company. The lyrics were mostly written by Earle Crooker, but he had left the project, with the score needing vast improvement. It enjoyed a nine-week run and encouraged the duo to join forces with Arthur Pierson for ""What's Up?"", which opened on Broadway in 1943. It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by ""The Day Before Spring"". Their first hit was ""Brigadoon"""
"a hit nonetheless, and immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told reporter Theodore H. White that JFK's administration reminded her of the ""one brief shining moment"" of Lerner and Loewe's ""Camelot"". As of the early 21st century, ""Camelot"" was still invoked to describe the idealism, romance, and tragedy of the Kennedy years. Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California, while Lerner went through a series of musicals—some successful, some not—with such composers as André Previn (""Coco""), John Barry (""Lolita, My Love""), Leonard Bernstein (""1600 Pennsylvania Avenue""), Burton Lane (""Carmelina"") and Charles Strouse (""Dance a Little Closer"", based"
"orchestral works are ""Four Fancies – Suite"" (1925); ""Funeral of a Flea"" (1928); ""Nucleus Themes, No. 1"" (1927); ""Razzle-Dazzle"" (1928); and ""Two Grotesque Recitations (1927)"". Songs by Somerville include: ""All the Way to Coventry"" (1913); ""Call the yowes to the knowes"" (1891); ""God Sends the Night"" (1908); ""The Hour I love the best of all"" (1924); ""The Lark and the Nightingale"" (1900); ""The Laughing Waves"" (1900); ""A Memory"" (1891); ""The Song of Kent"" (1921); ""Songs of Friendship"" (1909); ""The Amber Necklace"" (1917); ""When Dreams come true"" (1913); ""Wherever I may be"" (1913); ""Who Rides for the King"" (1911); and ""Zaïda"""
"the West End theatre and ran for 685 performances; many revivals have followed. A 1954 film version starred Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, and a 1966 television version starred Robert Goulet and Peter Falk. Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals; the first, ""Life of the Party"", closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, ""What's Up?"" and ""The Day Before Spring"", had met with moderate success. Inspired by Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful collaborations ""Oklahoma!"" and ""Carousel"", they created ""Brigadoon"", about a magical village in the Scottish highlands. Like"
"her Governess"" (1847), ""The Flying Dutchman"" (1848), ""Coralie"" (1853), ""Charming Chloe Cole"" (1854), ""Oh, send me not away from home"" (1854), ""Little Mary of the Dee"" (1855), ""In lonely bow'r bemoans the turtle dove"" (1855), ""The Tyrolese Fortune-teller"" (1867), ""Bridal Bells"" (1868), ""Cupid's Flight"" (1868), ""Don't be too particular"" (1868), ""Take a bumper and try"" (1874), and ""The Musical Wife"" (1878). Duets: ""Fond Memory"" (1855), ""A B C"" (1863), ""Tell me, gentle stranger"" (1863), ""We are two roving minstrels"" (1864), and ""Flow, gentle Deva"" (1872). He also wrote the glees, ""Come, fairies, trip it on the grass"" (prior to 1851)"
"the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. On March 14, 1958, the RIAA certified crooner Perry Como's single, ""Catch a Falling Star"", its first ever Gold Record. Musicals were an important and popular component to the American theater scene in the 1950s. During the 1950s several Rodgers and Hammerstein musical shows were popular on Broadway in Manhattan, notably ""Carousel"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""South Pacific"", ""The King and I"", ""Flower Drum Song"", and ""The Sound of Music"". The team of Lerner and Loewe created two popular Broadway musicals during the 1950s ""Paint Your Wagon"" and ""My Fair Lady"". Other popular musicals"
"Debussy's 1913 ballet ""Khamma"", the American premiere of Strauss's silent film (1926) of ""Der Rosenkavalier"", the world premiere of a completely staged pageant-version of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ""Hymnen"" involving 1000 performers on Yale's Cross Campus, the American premiere of Hindemith's orchestrated songs ""Das Marienleben"" and rare performances of Scriabin's ""Prometheus: The Poem of Fire"" (with coordinated lasers), John Cage's ""Atlas Eclipticalis"", Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"", Schoenberg's ""Gurre-Lieder"", Messiaen's """" and Stravinsky's ""Agon"". In 1973, Mauceri made both his professional orchestral debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and his operatic debut conducting Menotti's ""The Saint of Bleecker Street"" at the Wolf Trap Festival."
"the summers of 1936 and 1937, Lerner studied music composition at Juilliard. While attending Harvard, he lost his sight in his left eye due to an accident in the boxing ring. In 1957, Lerner and Leonard Bernstein, another of Lerner's college classmates, collaborated on ""Lonely Men of Harvard,"" a tongue-in-cheek salute to their alma mater. Due to his injury, Lerner could not serve in World War II. Instead he wrote radio scripts, including ""Your Hit Parade"", until he was introduced to Austrian composer Frederick Loewe, who needed a partner, in 1942 at the Lamb's Club. While at the Lamb's, he"
"a short, jazz-flavored Chamber Opera called ""Blues in the Subway"", promoted by The Village Voice at the Loew’s Sheriden Theater. In the early 1960s he was involved in writing commercial jingles. One of these, for Prell shampoo, gave him in 1961 the Clio Award for the best musical theme of the year. In the same period, he orchestrated the Broadway Musical ""Kicks and Co."". He also worked as an arranger and producer for Jobete, the publishing company for Motown Records, and was composer and writer for Verve Records. In 1968 he was one of the writers for the Broadway Musical"
"box office records for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. The New York critics' reviews of the original production were mixed to positive. A 1993 review in ""The New York Times"" commented that the musical ""has grown in stature over the years, primarily because of its superb score ... [which] combined a lyrical simplicity with a lush romanticism, beautifully captured in numbers like 'I Loved You Once in Silence' and 'If Ever I Would Leave You.' These ballads sung by Guenevere and Lancelot are among the most memorable in the Lerner-Loewe catalogue. King Arthur supplies the wit, with songs"
"music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) ""Peter and the Wolf"" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) ""Giselle"" (music by Adolphe Adam) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Cinderella"" (music by Prokofiev) ""Director's Choice"" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor"
"called the ""Camelot Era"". In 1959, Alan Jay Lerner and Moss Hart decided to adapt T. H. White's ""The Once and Future King"" as their next project. As discussed in Lerner's 1978 book, ""The Street Where I Live"", Frederick Loewe, who initially had no interest in the project, agreed to write music, with the understanding that if things went badly, it would be his last score. After the tremendous success of ""My Fair Lady"", expectations were high for a new Lerner and Loewe musical. However, the show's production met several obstacles. Lerner's wife left him during the writing process, causing"
"artistic focuses lies on the revision of evening-length narrative ballets such as ""The Nutcracker"" (1971), ""Illusions - like Swan Lake"" (1976), ""A Cinderella’s Story"" (1992), ""Sylvia"" (1997), which was originally created for the ballet of the Paris Opera, and ""Giselle"" (2000). The repertoire of The Hamburg Ballet also includes a variety of ballets choreographed to orchestral music. Of special importance is John Neumeier’s ""Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler"" (1975). Taken together with other ballets set to the music by Mahler, Neumeier's works form a cycle. In addition, John Neumeier has created ballets to Johann Sebastian Bach's ""Saint Matthew Passion"" (1980)"
"ran for 213 performances. Noël Coward's operetta ""Bitter Sweet"" enjoyed a run of 697 performances beginning 18 July 1929. J. B. Priestley's theatrical adaptation of his own ""The Good Companions"" premiered on 14 May 1931. Musicals continued to dominate at the theatre in the post-Second World War period, including transfers of the successful Broadway productions ""Follow the Girls"" (1945; 572 performances) and the Lerner and Loewe musicals ""Brigadoon"" (1949; 685 performances) and ""Paint Your Wagon"" (1953; 478 performances). Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"" opened in December 1958 for a run of 1,039 performances, transferring from Broadway via the Manchester Opera"
"list""): 1961 - ""The Break"" 1961 - ""The Ham Funeral"", by Patrick White (Union Hall) 1962 - ""The Good Woman of Setzuan"", by Bertolt Brecht (Union Hall) 1962 - ""The Season at Sarsaparilla"", by Patrick White (Union Hall) 1963 - ""Oedipus Rex"", by Sophocles (Union Hall) 1964 - ""Night on Bald Mountain"", by Patrick White (Union Hall) 1965 - ""The Representative"", by Rolf Hochhuth (Union Hall) 1965 - ""Inadmissible Evidence"", by 1968 - ""America Hurrah"", by Van Itallie (New Theatre) 1968 - ""The Boys in the Band"", by Mart Crowley (the Playbox) 1969 - ""Candy Stripe Balloon"", revue starring Grahame"
"in Tallinn as an open-air performance. A lot of positive feedback was given to Jaan Hargel's conduction of Rossini's opera ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"" (1946), Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" (1948), Leoncavallo's ""I pagliacci"" (1949), Tchaikovsky's ""Iolanta"" (1951), Verdi's ""Aida"" (1961), d'Albert's ""Tiefland"" (1963), and a number of extremely popular operettas, e.g. Strauss' ""Die Fledermaus"" (1949), Hervé's ""Mam'zelle Nitouche"" (1957), Raymond's ""Maske in Blau"" (1958), Kitzberg's farce with Eduard Oja's music ""Taylor Õhk and"" ""His Winning Lottery Ticket"" (1962), which in Hargel's lifetime was played for almost 140 times, and one of the most successful ballet productions of the Vanemuine throughout the"