"him, but Gaston does not answer until he arrives at Mamita's and humbly asks for Gigi's hand in marriage. Gigi (musical) Gigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It is based on the novella ""Gigi"" by Colette and 1958 hit musical film of the same name. The story concerns Gigi, a free-spirited teenaged girl living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. She is being groomed as a courtesan in her family's tradition. Before she is deemed ready for her social debut, she encounters the ""bon vivant"""
"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;"
"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"
"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;"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"(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"
"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"
"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"
"many who either were or were later to become notable composers, including Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Michel Philippot, and Arthur Honegger. Compositional output from 1951 to 1953 comprised ""Étude I"" (1951) and ""Étude II"" (1951) by Boulez, ""Timbres-durées"" (1952) by Messiaen, ""Konkrete Etüde"" (1952) by Stockhausen, ""Le microphone bien tempéré"" (1952) and ""La voile d'Orphée"" (1953) by Henry, ""Étude I"" (1953) by Philippot, ""Étude"" (1953) by Barraqué, the mixed pieces ""Toute la lyre"" (1951) and ""Orphée 53"" (1953) by Schaeffer/Henry, and the film music ""Masquerage"" (1952) by Schaeffer and ""Astrologie"" (1953) by"
"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)"
"16, 18 May 1923),"" ""Meyerbeer's ""The Huguenots"" (Royal Lyceum Theatre 15, 17, 19 May 1923); ""Bohemian Girl"", ""Cavalleria Rusticana"", ""Trial by Jury"" and ""The Jolly Beggers"" (Royal Lyceum, 1931); ""Yeoman of the Guard, Jeannie Deans"" (King’s Theatre 1934); ""Orpheus"" (Gateway Theatre 1958); ""Faust"" (Gateway Theatre 1959); ""Semele"" (Gateway Theatre 1960); ""Der Freischutz"" (Gateway Theatre 1961); ""L'elisir d’amore"" (Gateway Theatre 1962); ""The Bartered Bride"" (Gateway Theatre 1963); ""Flying Dutchman"" (Royal Lyceum Theatre 1979). Edinburgh Opera Company ""Not to be confused with Edinburgh Grand Opera"". Edinburgh Opera Company was an opera company which existed in Edinburgh during the 20th century from around"
"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"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
"plays include the historical epic ""Famine"" (1968) which deals with the Irish Potato Famine between 1846 and spring 1847, the anti-clerical ""The Sanctuary Lamp"" (1975), ""The Gigli Concert"" (1983) and for many his masterpiece, the lyrical ""Bailegangaire"" and the bar-room comedy ""Conversations on a Homecoming"" (both 1985). His work is characterised by a constant experimentation in form and content from the apparently naturalistic ""A Whistle in the Dark"" to the surreal ""The Morning After Optimism"" and the spectacularly verbal ""The Gigli Concert"". Recurring themes include the search for redemption and hope in a world apparently deserted by God and filled"
"Conservatoire (1952, Pathé)<br> Christiné - ""Phi-Phi"" - selection (1952, Pathé)<br> Hervé - ""Mam'zelle Nitouche"" - selection (1953, Pathé)<br> Varney - ""Les Mousquetaires au couvent"" (1953, Pathé)<br> Hervé - ""Le Retour d'Ulysse"" and ""Trombolino"", with Jean Giraudeau and Denise Duval (1956, Gaieté Lyrique)<br> Lehár - ""Le Pays des Sourires"" (1956, Pathé)<br> Offenbach - ""La Vie parisienne"" (1956, Philips)<br> Lehár - ""Frasquita"" (1956, Véga)<br> Scotto - ""Violettes impériales"" (1961, Véga)<br> Offenbach - ""La Créole"" (1969, Bourg)<br> Marcel Cariven Marcel Auguste Antoine Cariven, (18 April 1894, Toulouse – 5 November 1979, Crosne near Paris) was a French conductor, particularly associated with light music"
"in 1958, Tommy Steele in ""Half a Sixpence"" in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in ""Little Me"" in 1964 (334 performances), ""The Black Mikado"" (1975–76), and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical ""Chicago"" ran for 590 performances. More recently the 'rock'n'roll' musical ""Return to the Forbidden Planet"", which was based on Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical—beating the favourite, ""Miss Saigon"". The controversial show ""Jerry Springer - The Opera"" had a run from 14 October 2003 –"
"by Igor Stravinsky, ""Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve"" (""Night on Bald Mountain""), to music by Modest Mussorgsky, and ""Carnaval des Animaux"" (""Carnival of Animals,"" 1957), to music by Camille Saint-Saëns. After the formation of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1957, Chiriaeff created many works for her young company, including ""Mémoires de Camille"" (1961), to music by Giuseppe Verdi, ""Quatrième Concert Royal"" (1961), to music by François Couperin, and ""Fète Hongroise,"" to music by Johannes Brahms. She also restaged some of her earlier works, including ""Cendrillon"" (1962) and ""Suite Canadienne"" (1961), set to French-Canadian folk tunes arranged by Michel Perrault."
"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."
"productions was the British première of Bertolt Brecht's ""Mother Courage and Her Children"" (1955), which she directed and also played the lead role. Her production of ""Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be"", a musical about the London underworld, became a hit and ran from 1959 to 1962, transferring to the West End. The works for which she is now best remembered are probably Shelagh Delaney's ""A Taste of Honey"" (1958), which gained critical acclaim, and the satirical musical ""Oh, What a Lovely War!"" (1963), her stage adaptation of a work for radio by Charles Chilton. Both were subsequently made into"
"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)"
"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"