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.

Lloyd Webber's Picasso to be sold after Nazi row settled". Agence France-Presse. 17 March 2010. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 March 2010.Voices: tenor, soprano, and treble soloists, and SATB choir (performed with boy sopranos and altos at the premiere) 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.

Yes, I was intrigued with that possibility. It was a reflection of my belief that, regardless of the genre, a composer should use everything within his means to ensure that his music is brought to the broadest number of people. The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Kim André Arnesen and Fredrik Sixten include a "Pie Jesu" as an independent movement. Decidedly, the best known is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem. Camille Saint-Saëns, who died in 1921, said of Fauré's "Pie Jesu": "Just as Mozart's is the only ' Ave verum corpus', this is the only 'Pie Jesu'." [1] Elgot, Jessica (16 October 2017). "Andrew Lloyd Webber quits as Conservative peer". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 October 2017.

Lloyd Webber’s Requiem (1985)

He is a lifelong supporter of London-based football club Leyton Orient F.C., [105] just like his younger brother Julian. [106] This Is Your Life (1994)". BFI. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021.

In 2023, Lloyd Webber's son, Nicholas died at the age of 43 after an 18 month battle with gastric cancer. [110] Wealth [ edit ]There have been a number of film adaptations of Lloyd Webber's musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), directed by Norman Jewison; Evita (1996), directed by Alan Parker; The Phantom of the Opera (2004), directed by Joel Schumacher and co-produced by Lloyd Webber; and Cats (2019), directed by Tom Hooper and executive produced by Lloyd Webber. Cats (1998), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999), Jesus Christ Superstar (2000) and By Jeeves (2001) have been adapted into made-for-television films that have been released on DVD and VHS and often air on BBC.

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. Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963) The couplet is chanted by a group of flagellant monks as a running gag during the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. [3] Text [ edit ]Although I don’t claim to be terribly familiar with the Requiem mass as a genre, the text has always intrigued me. It’s so theatrical. And I very much enjoy writing for the sound of the Latin language, which obviously has something in that it has endured as long as it has. I was also very interested to see whether or not I could make a requiem for an audience of today. Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works – Walsh, Michael (1989, revised and expanded, 1997), Abrams: New York Brantley, Ben (25 June 2017). "Review: That 'Sunset Boulevard' Close-Up, Finely Focused". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.